Month: April 2023

Days after hundreds of young people converged on downtown Chicago and 31st Street Beach in a series of social media-fueled “takeovers,” resulting in three teens shot and at least 15 people arrested, officials are offering sharply different assessments.

A correctional officer stands accused of beating a detainee who was handcuffed to a wall at the Cook County jail last year.

Prosecutors say a Chicago man who was sentenced to life in prison in 1983, only to be resentenced and released in 2016, killed two people and tried to kill a third while he was on electronic monitoring for a felony gun case Sunday morning.

Chicago police data shows that one-third of the city’s shoplifting arrests last year were arrested at least twice and 12% of the city’s retail theft arrests were made at Macy’s in the Loop.