Shot fired, crowd maced at pro-Palestinian protest outside Israeli solidarity event in Skokie
The melee unfolded when protesters demonstrated outside an event called to show solidarity with Israel at a banquet hall in Skokie.
The melee unfolded when protesters demonstrated outside an event called to show solidarity with Israel at a banquet hall in Skokie.
A new civilian oversight panel is working with Chicago police on a policy that would bar officers from joining hate and extremist groups.
When Chicago cops joined the KKK 55 years ago, the department moved quickly to fire them.
The parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin were raised in Chicago. Of the 12 U.S. citizens seized by Hamas, five have Illinois connections — more than previously known.
The White House on Saturday released an edited video of Judith and Natalie Raanan’s brief conversation with President Joe Biden, after the mother and daughter were released by Hamas.
Reporters with WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times filed more than 200 open records requests with the Chicago Police Department and other law enforcement agencies across Illinois.
An investigation by WBEZ, Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project found allegations of excessive force, improper searches and racist comments on the job.
The people who spoke with WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times say the department should rid itself of cops connected to extremist groups.
The anti-government group is best known for plotting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but its notoriety extends years earlier.
Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter Natalie Raanan, 17, had been held since Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked Israel.