Crystal Garcia, right, wife of Samuel Jimenez, is escorted out at the end of the Superintendent's Honored Star Ceremony, which paid tribute on Aug. 13, 2019, to Chicago police Officers Samuel ...

The badge is from 2015, when Maldonado actually was the chief. But he was fired after a DUI arrest in 2016. So imagine the City of Chicago Heights' surprise when state police reached out.

For more than a year the Chicago Heights Park District has been trying to get its badge back from its former police chief. He said if he has it, he does not have to give it back and claims he was ...

Hundreds of family, friends and fellow police gathered Wednesday afternoon at the Living Word Christian Center in Forest Park ...

The next mayor and his police superintendent must make it a priority to get rid of officers whose ties to far-right groups make it harder to build trust with the community.

Chicago police Chief Larry Snelling, center, arrives with Mayor Brandon Johnson and police interim Superintendent Fred Waller, right, to be introduced as Johnson's choice for the next ...

In other cities, citizens have complained that police officers have covered their names or badges. City officials in Chicago, New York and Seattle have said that practice is unacceptable.

Chicago Police Officer Ella French, who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2021, was remembered during a conversation on the series Wearing the Badge.