Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

An American icon, deaf, mute, blind Helen Keller, was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Author, Social Justice Activist, Socialist, proud IWW member. She became the first deaf-blind person to earn a ...

A memorial roll call took place to honor the life of Chicago police officer Luis Huesca, on the first anniversary of his death at the Gold Star Families Memorial and Park. Huesca, a six-year ...

A man convicted of murdering an off-duty Chicago police officer in 2019 was sentenced to 90 years in prison, prosecutors ...

Menelik Jackson was found guilty in a trial as the gunman in October for the murder of off-duty 23-year-old Chicago police ...

A routine traffic stop in August 2021 ended in tragedy when a Chicago police officer was shot multiple times and his partner, Officer Ella French, was killed.

The Mendez family is suing the City of Chicago and the police officers involved, accusing them of violating their civil rights and traumatizing them and their children — then-9-year-old Peter ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — On the first anniversary of the death of Chicago police officer Luis Huesca, a memorial roll call took place to honor his life and service to the Chicago community. Photo ...

A death investigation is underway after an off-duty Chicago police officer died at the 18th District police station on the Near North Side early Thursday morning. The Chicago Police Department ...

Larrabee St., where 34-year-old Chicago Police Officer Malissa Torres was found early Thursday with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share A 34-year-old Chicago ...