Chicago Police

Safety concerns are growing amid the increased number of Chicago car jackings as the battle heats up over how to hold the Chicago Police Department accountable for their actions. NBC 5 political reporter Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Following an attempted carjacking in Chicago’s Gold Coast Thursday night, one of the latest in a string of violent crimes throughout the city, residents say more intervention is needed, and now, some are even thinking about moving elsewhere. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

The Chicago Police Department has appointed liaisons as a resource for the LGBTQ+ community across the city. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman Monday in Lake View on the North Side. The man approached the woman about 2:30 a.m. in the 600 block of West Wellington Avenue and started a conversation with her, Chicago police said. He then took the woman to a dirt lot, where he sexually assaulted her, police said….

Police have released photos of a woman wanted for stabbing three people and threatening to shoot another on the North Side this month.

A Chicago police officer exchanged gunfire with a suspect during a traffic stop Wednesday in West Garfield Park, but no one was injured.

Anjanette Young, the Chicago woman at the center of a botched police raid, says the mayor is not trying to settle her case and now she’s ready to take it to court. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

A 16-year-old girl was chased, beat and robbed by a group of people Tuesday at the Chicago Red Line stop on the Near North Side.

Twenty-seven people were hit by gunfire in Chicago Tuesday, one of the most violent days of the year with 8 shot in a house in Englewood and 5 wounded on the street in West Garfield Park.

Five people were wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in West Garfield Park in the city’s second mass shooting of the day, according to Chicago police.

Family and friends are remembering four victims who were shot and killed at an Englewood party early Tuesday morning. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez shares some of their emotional stories.

Two children were among six people injured after a porch collapsed Tuesday afternoon in Austin on the West Side. They were on the back stairs of a building about 2:50 p.m. in the first block of South Lavergne Avenue when the porch collapsed, Chicago police and fire officials said. A 24-year-old woman, 33-year-old woman, 7-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy…

Authorities responding to a crash on Lake Shore Drive on Chicago’s North Side early Tuesday found in the car two people who had been shot, one fatally, as well as a third person who was injured in the crash itself.

A woman is accused of driving drunk and crashing into a Chicago police vehicle Sunday in Austin, injuring two officers.

At least three people have been killed and 32 have been injured in shootings across the city of Chicago so far this weekend, according to police.

Two Chicago police officers and another driver were taken to area hospitals after a multi-vehicle crash in the city’s South Austin neighborhood Sunday morning.

Two Chicago police officers and another driver were taken to area hospitals after a multi-vehicle crash in the city’s South Austin neighborhood Sunday morning. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria has the latest details.

At least three people have been killed and 20 have been injured in shootings across the city of Chicago so far this weekend, according to police.

A 14-year-old boy’s neck was grazed by a bullet Saturday evening in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, authorities said.

A person was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in Chicago’s South Loop, police said. About 1:20 p.m., the male, whose age is unknown, was sitting in a vehicle parked on the street in the 600 block of South Wells Street, when someone in a passing vehicle fired shots into his vehicle, Chicago police said. He was struck multiple times and taken…