The Chicago Police Board has received applications from 23 people who want to become the city’s next police superintendent, officials said Monday.

Monday marked the deadline for interested candidates to apply to become Chicago’s next top cop, and Interim Superintendent Charlie Beck weighed in on what he believes is most important as the city searches for the right candidate. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Chicago’s interim police superintendent is discontinuing a so-called merit promotion system that rank-and-file cops have long complained rewards officers for who they know and not what skills they have to do the job. In a letter to the 13,400-member department obtained by the Chicago Tribune, Interim Superintendent Charlie Beck said Tuesday he’s heard that many officers have been “dissatisfied and discouraged”...

The unceremonious firing of Chicago’s police superintendent just weeks before his retirement has rattled a department that, under his leadership, was seeking to restore public confidence since the release of a 2014 video showing a white officer killing a black teenager with 16 gunshots. Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Monday for “ethical lapses” stemming from an October…

A female Chicago police officer who was reportedly seen on video drinking with and kissing the now-fired police superintendent the night he was found asleep behind the wheel of his SUV has been accused of tampering with a cellphone investigators wanted to examine, a police department spokesman said Friday. Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said officials noticed that the phone was…

The political fallout continues in the firing of former Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, and NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the details.

We’re learning new details Thursday as the saga involving former CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson continues to unfold. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the story.

The female colleague who was with Supt. Eddie Johnson on the evening his scandal began was reportedly transferred as the situation escalated.  WBEZ reports the woman, who was at a bar with Johnson on Oct. 16 hours before he was found slumped behind the wheel of his car, was later transferred off of Johnson’s security team weeks later. Citing department...

Former Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is officially off of the city’s payroll, days after he was fired from his position as the head of the second-largest police department in the United States.

More details are emerging in the scandal surrounding former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson as the restaurant he visited the night he was found slumped over behind the wheel of his car in October has released a statement.  Ceres Cafe said it is “fully cooperating with the office of the Inspector General on the ongoing investigation of this matter...

More details are emerging in the scandal surrounding former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, according to a new report indicating that more Chicago police employees are under investigation for an alleged cover-up to protect him. Susan Carlson reports.

More details are emerging in the scandal surrounding former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, according to a new report indicating that more Chicago police employees are under investigation for an alleged cover-up to protect him. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday that multiple CPD employees were under investigation for allegedly trying to protect Johnson by covering up the circumstances surrounding the incident...

NBC 5’s Dick Johnson has the latest details on the firing of Chicago’s top cop.

NBC 5’s Christian Farr has new details after former Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson made a statement following his ouster from the department.

Read the full statement below. Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson broke his silence after being fired from his job as the city’s top cop over what the mayor called “intolerable actions.”  Johnson denied the Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s allegations that he “intentionally mislead” her and the public on what happened when he was found slumped behind the wheel of a car on Oct....

Read the full statement below. Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson has released a statement after he was fired from his job as the city’s top cop one month before his planned retirement.  “I am making this public statement today, my first as the former superintendent of the Chicago Police Department,” he wrote. “I am of course disappointed that I could not...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson Monday over allegations that he “intentionally misled” her and the public. Susan Carlson reports. 

Hours after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired police superintendent Eddie Johnson for what she called “intolerable actions,” Charlie Beck, the interim superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, sent a letter to its members assuring them the department is “headed in the right direction.”  In her decision to fire Johnson, Lightfoot cited evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by...

THE EXPLOSIVE ANNOUNCMENT CAUGHT MANY PEOPLE OFF GUARD THIS MORNING.
NBC 5’S CHARLIE WOJCIECHOWSKI IS LIVE AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS WITH THAT PART OF THE STORY.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. NBC 5’s Carol Marin has an analysis of the situation.