The directive makes Chicago the first city in the nation "to leverage local authority to pursue legal accountability for misconduct" by federal agents, according to the city.

In celebration of Black History Month, Chicago filmmakers will be showing their short films at Music Box Theater and Facets.

A trial, set to start Monday, will decide whether CPD officers traumatized two women and four children in August when a CPD SWAT team broke down the door of their apartment, pointed assault rifles ...