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Oversight agency releases video of fatal Chicago police shooting in Southwest Side park

October 1, 2020 at 9:04 p.m.

Chicago's investigative police oversight agency released video Thursday showing a man being fatally shot by police Sept. 5 after he was hit with a Taser and lunged at a sergeant...

Rashawn Lindsey, 23, stands where he was stopped by police when he was 18 years old as he was walking down the 6600 block of South Carpenter Street in Chicago. Lindsey's attorney says there was no justification for the stop, and Lindsey is part of a civil suit against the city for excessive stops in the Black community.

Doubt about police in Chicago manifests itself on racial lines in monitor’s survey, legal challenges over street stops

September 25, 2020 at 5:27 p.m.

Many Black Americans' distrust for police, both in Chicago and around the country, has been highlighted repeatedly in 2020, most recently this week with outrage over the controversial result of...

People march north on Michigan Avenue in memory of Breonna Taylor Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Chicago. Taylor was fatally shot by Louisville, Ky., police in March.

Hundreds of demonstrators gather around Chicago to peacefully protest that no Kentucky police will face charges in Breonna Taylor’s death

September 24, 2020 at 5:57 a.m.

Kellie Black said she was expecting an announcement regarding Breonna Taylor's grand jury inquiry but didn't think anything was amiss until businesses in her Gresham neighborhood began boarding up windows....

Sydney Roberts, chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, at a City Council committee hearing in 2018.

Head of Chicago’s civilian police oversight agency offers rare pushback on city government watchdog over video releases

September 20, 2020 at 12:48 p.m.

The head of Chicago's civilian agency that probes police misconduct offered rare pushback against the city's government watchdog for that office's report suggesting the agency has not released video or...

The Chicago skyline appears in July. A newly released report detailed a nearly nine-year life expectancy gap overall between the city's Black residents and white residents.

Chicago’s history of systemic racism blamed for nearly 9-year life expectancy gap between Black and white residents in new report

September 18, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

A growing life expectancy gap between Black and white Chicagoans has a stark and clear cause, city health officials said in releasing a report on the issue Thursday: decades of...

Police canvass the scene where a 38-year-old man was fatally shot Sept. 6, 2020, near the 3900 block of South Talman Avenue.

In a career born in her own grief, violence recovery specialist works at a Chicago hospital in a city under siege

September 16, 2020 at 10:12 a.m.

Christine Goggins was just about to check in with the family of a gunshot victim, a new case that had been handed off from the previous shift, when the high-pitched...

Inspector general finds failures in city’s system for promptly releasing video in Chicago police use-of-force cases

September 15, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

The city of Chicago has in some instances failed to release video and other evidence in excessive force cases involving Chicago police within 60 days, as its own policy requires....

Maria Vega talks to reporters Sept. 1, 2020, about her son, Miguel, as she arrives at the scene he was shot by police in the 1300 block of West 19th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood on late Monday. Vega died at a hospital.

Five police shootings in Chicago in two months, but no video released on any of them. Is it taking too long for the public to see what happened?

September 8, 2020 at 4:50 p.m.

After facing withering criticism for withholding video of the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald five years ago, the city of Chicago created what it billed as one of the...

Police officers process a crime scene in the 300 block of North Central Avenue in Chicago, where two people were shot Aug. 19, 2020.

As detectives seek public’s help in last week’s shooting of 12-year-old boy, another child and his mother are shot on the West Side

August 19, 2020 at 6:06 p.m.

A 9-year-old boy and his mother were shot Wednesday afternoon on the West Side when two gunmen got out of a car and opened fire at a group of men...

Demetrius Johnson, middle, who grew up in the Englewood neighborhood, cuts a two-by-four as Dominique Richardson, lead carpenter, looks on at the work site for the Go Green on Racine project at South Racine and West 63rd Street in Chicago on Aug. 11, 2020.

In another troubled time, Englewood continues efforts to transform

August 14, 2020 at 7:01 a.m.

On the second story of the brown brick storefront at 63rd Street and Racine Avenue, sunlight spilled onto exposed walls as construction workers in hard hats hauled wood studs and...

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