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Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling approaches a news conference with Antoinette Ursitti, chief of detectives, at police headquarters on May 3, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

CPD pushes to boost its ‘clearance’ rate in homicide cases, with some success

June 25, 2024 at 12:15 p.m.

The Chicago Police Department makes a renewed push to improve the rate of homicide cases it considers solved, including by reopening cases shelved for decades.

Vanessa Rivera, second from right, holds a Spider-Man toy as she is comforted during a march for peace on West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago on June 21, 2024, near the Oakley Square apartment complex where her nephew Jai’Mani Amir Rivera was killed Tuesday. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Teen charged in 7-year-old’s shooting death on Near West Side: ‘Jai’Mani’s life was taken from him’

June 21, 2024 at 8:05 p.m.

The 16-year-old was arrested two days after Jai’Mani Amir Rivera was shot and killed outside his home on the city's Near West Side.

Children gather during a vigil on June 19, 2024, for Jai’Mani Amir Rivera, 7, who was killed in a shooting outside Oakley Square Apartments on Tuesday. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Charges filed in killing of 7-year-old Jai’Mani Amir Rivera, police say

June 21, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Jai'Mani Amir Rivera was shot about 3 p.m. Tuesday in the 2300 block of West Jackson Boulevard on the Near West Side.

Larry Neuman, 73, who was retired from the Chicago Police Department, was fatally shot near the intersection of Kildare Avenue and Monroe Street on June 20, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Retired Chicago police officer fatally shot on West Side

June 20, 2024 at 9:12 p.m.

The Cook County medical examiner's office identified the victim as Larry L. Neuman.

Workforce specialist supervisor Marcus Floyd leads a workforce development group at the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago in West Garfield Park on June 17, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Violence intervention at street level getting funding boost in ‘unique moment’ for Chicago

June 18, 2024 at 6:28 a.m.

Dozens of anti-violence advocates, street outreach workers and other community figureheads gathered Monday on the West Side to announce a new injection of hundreds of millions of dollars that will...

Cordney Boxley, sister of Joshua Beal, talks about her brother's character during a news conference held by members of the Black Lives Matter movement at the Chicago Police Department's Calumet District (5th) on Nov. 6, 2016, in the Mount Greenwood community. "My brother has been painted to be this bad person when really he was a father," she said as her voice cracked. (Alyssa Pointer/baiduhai)

Lawsuit over controversial police shooting in Mount Greenwood settled just before trial

June 10, 2024 at 6:05 p.m.

More than seven years after a racially charged melee and police shooting left a man dead in Mount Greenwood, a proposed settlement was reached last week between the city and...

Police officers run in formation as the Chicago Police Department offers a first look at officer training at McCormick Place on June 6, 2024, in preparation for the Democratic National Convention in August. The officers at the training session are among the 2,500 officers who will be on the front lines during the DNC. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

June 10, 2024 at 6:17 a.m.

The landscape has changed and CPD isn't the same police force as it was in 1968. But questions remain as protesters will arrive in Chicago this August for the Democratic...

A woman carries a memorial into the Greater Harvest Missionary Baptist Church for the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, Feb. 9, 2013, in Chicago. (John J. Kim / baiduhai)

Gun violence survivors use new report to highlight work to be done

June 7, 2024 at 5:12 p.m.

While fewer Illinois residents died of gunfire in 2022, longstanding racial disparities among victims remain, according to a new report released Friday.

University of Chicago Medical Center surgeon Dr. Anthony Douglas teaches Englewood STEM High School students how to tie a tourniquet to a limb with simulated bullet wounds during a “stop the bleed” training through the MedCEEP organization on May 14, 2024. The organization offers EMS and other basic first aid training in an effort to attract young people on the South and West sides to careers in medicine. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

As another Chicago summer begins, stakeholders in anti-violence efforts dig in

June 6, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Stakeholders in anti-violence efforts are preparing for extra challenges with a major political convention along with a host of other summer activities throughout Chicago. Meanwhile, CPD faces roughly 2,000 vacant...

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle listens to Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling discuss preparation efforts on June 4, 2024, ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

CPD stresses readiness for Democratic National Convention as Secret Service boss visits Chicago

June 4, 2024 at 12:56 p.m.

As the Democratic National Convention draws closer, leaders of the Chicago Police Department and United States Secret Service on Tuesday again sought to highlight their preparation efforts.

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