A knife-wielding man who reportedly chased another person at a Cook County forest preserve was shot by law enforcement on Friday afternoon after advancing toward an officer, authorities said.

COPA responded to an officer-involved shooting on the Far South Side on Friday afternoon. CPD officials said a man was shot and critically injured, and an officer was taken to a hospital for observation.

Three Cook County residents are being detained after allegedly stealing a high-end SUV and leading police on a high-speed chase earlier this month.

CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling said the rise in Summary Punishment Action Requests could be attributed to both enhanced oversight by CPD sergeants as well as the relative inexperience of some officers who were cited.

A suspect is in custody after a woman was killed and her two young boys were wounded in domestic-related stabbings that prompted an Amber Alert Friday morning in Chicago.

Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit

Christopher Lopez, 23, of Cary was charged in the crash that killed Glenview police Officer Robert Fryc, 43​, in Barrington early Sunday morning.

Antonio Reyes, now 21, has been held since late 2020, already charged with one killing earlier that year. This week, CPD detectives and Cook County prosecutors accused Reyes of carrying out five more killings between March and November 2020.

Two former Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday were acquitted of multiple counts following an unusual criminal trial connected to a wrongful conviction case.