Some CTA trains were stopped for over an hour during the morning rush hour Monday, as emergency officials negotiated with a man on the tracks downtown.

The No. 11 seed Musketeers march into their NCAA Tournament first-round game against the No. 6 Fighting Illini. Xavier erased ...

SPRING CREEK — The Elko SWAT Team arrested a Spring Creek man suspected of being involved in an armed robbery on Sunday with other people who remain at large. Christopher Symes was taken into ...

In March 2025 claims ( archived) circulated on social media that police and SWAT teams were guarding Tesla car dealerships in ...

Chicago police executed a search warrant at the wrong address more than six years ago that left social worker Anjanette Young ...

Six years after Chicago police officers wrongfully searched the home of social worker Anjanette Young, she told state lawmakers about the trauma she experienced in testimony on legislation that would ...

The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

A family friend is now in care of the children. Officials said the mother was in Illinois during that week, but has since returned to Wisconsin and is in contact with police. A neighbor had been ...

May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Claire Rush) The Indiana Statehouse is seen May 5, 2017, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker delivers his State of the State and budget ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

ROMEVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit against a Will County SWAT sniper who killed a suspect who had already surrendered. The video in the player above is from a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Three men were arrested by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team on Tuesday after officers served a warrant in Centennial. The law enforcement officers were serving ...