Today in History for Dec. 20: In 1699, Russian Czar Peter the Great ordered his people to celebrate the New Year on January 1, instead of Sept. 1. In 1790, the first successful cotton mill in the ...

The police promotions system allows officers' disciplinary records to be ignored, and, despite years of. reform efforts, ...

Vallas notes that the clearance rate for nonfatal shootings was around 6% when last reported. He then cites the justice ...

The Chicago Teachers Union spent roughly $15.8 million supporting liberal political campaigns while failing to produce ...

Just as many young Americans watched the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and felt compelled to join the military, I watched the ...

Jeremy Gaughan, a veteran of more than two decades with the Gurnee police, has been appointed the department’s new police chief. He was formally sworn in on Dec. 1 during the regular Village Board ...

Protesters, journalists and faith leaders who sued over the aggressive tactics of federal immigration agents in the Chicago ...

San Francisco's newly appointed police chief, Derrick Lew, is taking office with an ambitious promise: "I truly believe we're ...