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Late payments threaten business license of Chicago body removal contractor

The small funeral home company that holds the lucrative contract for the city’s body removal services may soon be dissolved due to its failure to pay business license fees to the state.

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CPD sergeant stripped of police powers after profane, threatening video surfaces

The Chicago Police Department and Civilian Office of Police Accountability have both opened investigations after a viral video surfaced earlier this week purporting to show an off-duty CPD sergeant pr...

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Hundreds of Chicago police officers barred from testifying as discipline slowdown drags on

The state’s attorney’s office disclosed that 254 law enforcement officers in Cook County will not be called as witnesses for the prosecution following changes to office policy enacted last year. Of th...

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In historic shift, Latino officers soon to be largest racial group in Chicago Police Department

In the coming months, for the first time in the 191-year history of the Chicago Police Department, white officers will no longer be the largest racial group in the department’s rank-and-file.

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Police Supt. Larry Snelling: ‘Once you know it’s time to go, then it’s time to move on’

In an interview with the Tribune, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling reflected on his time leading the department and some of the hallmarks of his administration — a sharp decline in gun vio...

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Law enforcement takes different tack to fight prostitution in Chicago

Access to the resources and assistance to get out of the sex trade can depend on which law enforcement agency is involved and a person’s willingness to cooperate, the Tribune has found.

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Chicken coup? Family flap over control of famous Harold’s Chicken Shack brand lands in court.

Six months after the death of Harold’s Chicken Shack CEO Kristen Pierce-Sherrod, the question remains: Who owns the iconic Chicago restaurant brand?

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Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling to retire after nearly 3 years leading department

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling will retire after nearly three decades with the Chicago Police Department.

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Almost a year after a deadly mass shooting at her album release party, rapper Mello Buckzz faces gun charge

One year after a mass shooting at her album release party in River North in which four people were killed and 14 others wounded, Chicago drill rapper Mello Buckzz was ordered held in the Cook County J...

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Charges dropped in ATF shooting case after video calls sworn complaint into question: ‘These are serious things’

Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped charges against three men accused of robbing undercover agents during a gun transaction in Country Club Hills.

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Charges dropped in ATF shooting case after video calls sworn complaint into question: ‘These are serious things’

Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped charges against three men accused of robbing undercover agents during a gun transaction in Country Club Hills.

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City wrongly awarded lucrative CPD body-removal contract to small funeral home, suit claims

A business formerly tied to a small funeral parlor on the Northwest Side was improperly awarded a city contract last year worth millions of dollars to transport bodies for the Chicago Police Departmen...

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Chicago Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for local reporting

The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.

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Police Superintendent Larry Snelling defends CPD’s response to ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ during heated forum

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Thursday sought to clarify CPD’s response to Operation Midway Blitz during an often contentious meeting of the Community Commission for Public Safety an...

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New study recommends where and how CPD deploys its officers

With a voluminous, years-in-the-making study of the Chicago Police Department’s officer deployment methods finished, CPD must now decide which changes to enact first in its effort to more effectively ...

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Legal squabble over mysterious White Sox shooting winding down as sun rises on another season

More than two years after a shooting in the bleachers of a White Sox game, the central question remains: Where did the gunfire originate?

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A Skokie woman said ICE detained her for nearly 48 hours after landing at O’Hare. But is it true?

A Skokie woman said ICE detained for nearly 48 hours after landing at O’Hare. Three separate law enforcement agencies say her story doesn’t add up.

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Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling says increase in home searches coming

The Chicago Police Department’s bolstered training in the execution of search warrants will soon mean an increase in residential searches by CPD officers, Superintendent Larry Snelling told a feder…

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Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling says increase in home searches coming

The Chicago Police Department’s bolstered training in the execution of search warrants will soon mean an increase in residential searches by CPD officers, Superintendent Larry Snelling told a feder…

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Judge denies expungement in former CPD officer’s murder case

A Cook County judge on Monday denied the requests of a former Chicago Police Officer to expunge and seal records of his arrest and criminal trial in the fatal 2021 shooting of his girlfriend at her…

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CPD officer, shot after leaving FOP, alleges racial discrimination in SWAT

A Chicago Police officer previously shot in the line of duty — who publicly rebuked his former union — has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, alleging that he was kept from join…

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Charged, acquitted and sued, former CPD Officer Pierre Tyler now seeks expungement in murder case

Former Chicago police Officer Pierre Tyler was one of about a dozen petitions for expungement heard last week by a Cook County judge. But Tyler’s case was the only one involving a former cop and a …

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Officers in Dexter Reed shooting largely cleared of wrongdoing, records show

The Chicago police officers involved in the March 2024 shooting of Dexter Reed were largely cleared of wrongdoing by investigators with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, city records sh…

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Federal judge dismisses whistleblower lawsuit from former COPA investigator

A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a veteran police misconduct investigator against the city and the former chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accoun…

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One detective’s work demonstrates how CPD improved the homicide clearance rate

Records obtained by the Tribune detail how one of CPD’s most effective homicide investigators recently closed a 5-year-old cold case, helping to raise the Police Department’s murder clearance rate …

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One detective’s work demonstrates how CPD improved the homicide clearance rate

Records obtained by the Tribune detail how one of CPD’s most effective homicide investigators recently closed a 5-year-old cold case, helping to raise the Police Department’s murder clearance rate …

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