Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused the Trump administration of intimidating his city after the DOJ launched an ...

The practice of powerful officials hiring from within their own ethnic group is a tried-and-true tradition in the ...

Consent decrees have had mixed results. In Los Angeles, which exited its 12-year agreement in 2013, the police department ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joins The Weekend to discuss Trump’s Justice Department using legal retribution to open up an investigation into his city.

Jussie Smollett will donate $50,000 to a charity to settle his lawsuit with Chicago stemming from allegations that he staged ...

If the Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act survives Trump’s promised legal challenge, Vistra and NRG plants would need to ...

Hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett went on a bizarre Instagram rant in which he repeated his widely-debunked claim that he was ...

A rally Sunday in Chicago was part of a larger national effort by many of the same groups that amplified the Black Lives ...

Federal prosecutors should seek the death penalty for Elias Rodriguez, accused of a calculated double murder in D.C., with substantial forensic and video evidence, writes former prosecutor.

CHICAGO -- Actor Jussie Smollett is speaking out after reaching a settlement with the city of Chicago in a civil case related to the city's efforts to recover costs from its investigation into a 2019 ...

Jussie Smollett resolved his civil dispute with Chicago and donated $10,000 to a police violence support group following his 2024 exoneration.

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin took a trip to Minneapolis and spoke to the city's mayor Jacob ...