The uptick in FOID cards follows the City Council's approval of a July 2010 ordinance lifting a 28-year-old ban on handguns in Chicago. The ordinance requires gun owners to obtain a city gun permit and register their firearms with the Chicago Police.
An admitted drug kingpin testified Thursday that a Cook County state’s attorney’s investigator secretly helped him avoid getting caught in a federal probe.
The wife of fugitive Eddie Hicks took the Fifth Amendment at a police pension board hearing Tuesday, refusing to answer trustees' questions about the whereabouts of the former Chicago police officer.
A member of a violent Chicago drug-trafficking crew told a federal jury Monday that he carried out kidnappings, robberies and home invasions with the help of a Chicago police officer who wore his police star and a protective vest during the crimes.
A four-year legal battle over allegations that a Chicago police officer attacked two young children after a playground dispute ended recently in a settlement that will cost the city more than half a million dollars. The two, 11 and 13 at the time, were arrested and detained for several hours but later exonerated in Juvenile Court, according to court records.
