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The Chicago City Council followed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s lead in rejecting a provision Wednesday to allow Chicago police officers accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases heard behind closed doors, while approving Police Department pay raises and other contract provisions. Wednesday’s 33-17 vote nixes a major part of the deal between the union representing cops and ...

Good morning, Chicago. Over the years, Carrie Ward’s organization, the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, has worked with law enforcement agencies and attorneys across the state on how to better understand the complexities of sexual violence cases. But one part of the criminal justice system has been largely absent from that training: judges. Since 2018, all Illinois police officers ...

Ald. Andre Vasquez was almost done arranging chairs inside a barren church basement in Edgewater when he stopped to listen to a woman deliver a warning. The Rev. Beth Brown, a member of the Chicago police community commission, began tallying on her fingers the reasons Mayor Brandon Johnson should scrap his new plan to house migrants in encampments staffed by a security contractor. Too many ...

A City Council committee on Thursday delivered a symbolic but temporary message underscoring its commitment to police reform and accountability.

The “Chi vs. Hate” ordinance aims to collect reports of disturbing acts that might fall short of a crime, but hint at more troubling actions to come, as hate crimes spike in Chicago and beyond.