The Chicago Police Department said advances in forensic technology helped them determine that Thomas F. McInerney Jr., a ...

DNA evidence and a fingerprint linked Thomas F. McInerney Jr., a former Chicago police detective, to the 1960 cold case ...

Chicago police say DNA evidence ties one of their former homicide detectives to the decades-old murder of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted as she was walking to church more than 65 years ago.

The 21-year-old woman told police the assault happened during a party at the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, according to the police ...

Allegations of police misconduct against a former Chicago police detective will cost the Windy City more than $260 million.

The woman was found inside a home with a gunshot wound to the head. She was taken to Loyola Hospital in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead. Overnight video sh ...

Police are investigating a report that a woman was sexually assaulted during a fraternity party near the University of ...

The cold case murder of an 8-year-old Chicago girl that bedeviled investigators for 65 years has been solved — and the man tied to the killing was a homicide detective for the city’s police department ...

A panel of appellate judges ruled last year that officers could have disciplinary cases heard by an arbitrator, instead of the Chicago Police Board. But the appeals court also ruled that hearings must ...

Chicago police are looking for a woman who allegedly hit a senior citizen on a CTA bus downtown earlier this month.

Attorneys for the union representing Chicago police officers squared off with those from the city’s Department of Law before the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday to argue the most significant police ...