A shooting that wounded two people Saturday night in Englewood prompted an officer who witnessed the attack to open fire at the gunman and two suspected.
Officials said the man had been holding a woman at knife point when officers responded. The knife-wielding man is in critical condition, and the officer suffered serious wounds but is stable, they said.
The mother of a Chicago teenager who was fatally shot in the back while running from police will receive $5 million in a settlement approved by the city.
When Juneitha Shambee applied to join Evanston’s new Citizen Police Review Commission in 2020, she wanted to address community members’ growing mistrust in police departments — an issue that sparked national protests after the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police. “I initially believed that because we were creating this commission, people will.