Irving Park

An off-duty Chicago police officer opened fire on a catalytic converter theft crew on Tuesday morning, one night after two carloads of men pointed a gun at him in the same location.

A 21-year-old Chicago man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing a Northside College Prep student on the Northwest Side nearly four years ago.

A $15,000 cash reward is being offered for information that leads to charges being filed against the people who killed Carlos Rivera, a widely admired and longtime umpire for Chicago sports leagues.

A retired teacher who went to prison for starting a fire outside a Northwest Side tavern in 2018 was charged Wednesday with intentionally setting another fire outside the same bar.

Friends, family, and colleagues of Carlos Rivera will lay him to rest on Tuesday morning, more than a week after someone shot him to death as he investigated a disturbance in the second-floor unit of his Chicago two-flat.

Chicago police said a man was shot to death while investigating a disturbance on the second-floor unit of his Irving Park two-flat on Sunday evening.

The probationary Chicago police officer who was shot in the face during a suspected road rage incident on the North Side this week had been relieved of her police powers over the weekend because she failed a drug test, a law enforcement source said.