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The Chicago Police Department has announced an investigation into a viral video of teen girls twerking and dancing on top of a squad car, even as 55 Chicagoans were shot just last weekend alone.

Eighteen-year-old Marion Lewis has been arrested and charged in connection with the April 18, 2021, shooting death of a seven-year-old Chicago girl.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is calling for Chicago police to reform foot pursuit policy amid the unrest that followed a video release of an officer shooting a 13-year-old on March 29, 2021.

A Chicago police sergeant was shot Sunday afternoon while standing in the parking lot of the Gresham District police station.

Police in Democrat-controlled Chicago released video Thursday showing individuals allegedly involved in several carjackings and armed robberies.

Video released from a September 5, 2020, encounter in Chicago, Illinois, shows a suspect allegedly stabbing a police officer with a butcher knife before being shot dead by other officers.

A woman who survived a gunshot to the head received a special guest at her birthday celebration on Saturday in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago police are searching for a man who allegedly stabbed four homeless people, killing one in a recent series of attacks.

Students at several universities in the Chicago area are calling on their schools to end relationships with the Chicago Police Department. In one social media post, the student activists described their local police force as a “white supremacist cult.”

Dozens of families of Chicago police officers and other supporters took to the streets of Chicago’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood to call on Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other residents to support the Chicago Police Department on Sunday.

Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown confirmed Tuesday that a fellow officer committed suicide at a CPD facility.

The Black Lives Matter movement filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday to prevent President Donald Trump from sending 200 federal law enforcement officials to help Mayor Lori Lightfoot fight surging crime in the city.

Chicago Police Department officers showed footage Tuesday of last weekend’s attack on a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city, in which rioters armed with projectiles used “peaceful” protests as a cover for attacks on police.

A Chicago man was arrested Thursday and charged with beating a 23-month-old boy to death.

A man accused of shooting a Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer in the South Austin neighborhood of the city has been charged with attempted murder.

Actor Jussie Smollett is reportedly using the current Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the country to put pressure on the Chicago Police Department, which is suing the Hollywood star over his hate-crime hoax from last year.

Rap superstar Kanye West was accused of hijacking a protest he marched in on Thursday night in Chicago demanding justice for George Floyd, the Minneapolis man whose death in police custody has led to a worldwide resurgence of the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.

A man coming out of a looted store in Chicago was arrested by police and faces federal gun charges after it was discovered he was an eight-time felon allegedly in possession of a firearm.

A man is facing federal charges after he allegedly set fire to a Chicago Police Department car — all while wearing a Joker mask, which partially obscured his face.

One hundred and thirty-two police Chicago police officers were injured during this weekend’s riots after George Floyd’s May 25th death in Minneapolis police custody.

Rioters in Chicago were able to skirt the police and loot with impunity because they jammed Chicago police radio bands.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) and the Chicago Police Department are defending freeing an illegal alien convicted felon who allegedly sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl in a public bathroom.

SWAT officers in Chicago, Illinois, saved a man’s life Saturday after he fell into freezing Lake Michigan.

A man was allegedly pickpocketed, then beaten by a group of teenagers on a train Monday in Chicago, Illinois.

A Chicago man is accused of using a dating app to lure his victims near some of the city’s nicest hotels before attacking them with a stun gun and robbing them.

A policeman in Chicago, Illinois, found something he was not expecting as he patrolled the city’s South Side January 6. 

Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson announced his decision to retire Thursday morning at the department’s headquarters.

Smollett is arguing is that the city suing him for the cost of investigating his fake hate crime is unfair because when he filed the fake police report he never expected the police to put so much time and effort into investigating it.

Recently released surveillance footage places former Empire actor Jussie Smollett and his alleged attackers — Abel and Ola Osundairo — at the scene where the trio staged what is believed by police investigators to have been an orchestrated hate hoax.

The team of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett claims an ambiguous text message he sent to one of his suspected attackers prior to his purported assault was about illegal herbal steroids, not his alleged hate hoax.

U.S. Secret Service took an employee of a Chicago bar into custody Tuesday evening after she spit on President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, the president’s son told Breitbart News.

The Chicago Police Department on Monday released hours of video captured as part of their investigation into the alleged hate hoax orchestrated by former Empire actor Jussie Smollett earlier this years.

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge decided to appoint a special prosecutor Friday to investigate the decision by Cook County prosecutors to dismiss all charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of lying to the police by claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago in January.

More than 30 people were shot, three fatally, over the weekend in gun-controlled Chicago. ABC News reports a 12-year-old boy was among the injured.

At least 50 individuals were shot, ten of whom died, over the weekend in gun-controlled Chicago.

Recently released records show disgraced “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett denied to the Chicago Police Department that Abel and Ola Osundairo were his attackers, citing their dark skin color.