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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, ...

America First Legal alleged in a civil rights complaint that the city of Chicago practices in racial discrimination based on ...

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 ...

Jaime Castro, a longtime officer who leads the Dallas Police Association, the city’s largest and oldest police union, was placed on administrative leave Friday while the department conducts an ...

A Dallas police spokesperson declined to answer a list of questions Friday, including why Cpl. Jaime Castro was placed on leave months after the crash. Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer The ...

Remel Terry is now president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability. Terry has been a member of the commission, better known as the CCPSA, since it was launched in 2022.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been receiving around-the-clock care at home, has been hospitalized with a rare neurological disorder, according to his Chicago-based organization. The ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is in the hospital with a rare neurological disorder. Jackson's Chicago-based civil rights organization says the 84-year-old has... Rep. LaMonica McIver must face federal ...