The Bradford Era

CHICAGO (AP) — Janet Lindsey Ferguson has carried a poster bearing a photograph of her teenage son, Rickey Childs, ever since he was shot and killed b...

CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel sought for months to keep the public from seeing a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 ti...

CHICAGO (AP) — The video is graphic, according to some who have seen it: A black teenager wielding a small knife is walking away from Chicago police w...

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — A northern Illinois police officer whose fatal shooting triggered a large manhunt carefully staged his death to make it ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A 6-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 3-year-old brother while playing "cops and robbers" with a gun their father told inve...

CHICAGO (AP) — The mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week has thrust the debate over the nation's gun laws to the center of the presid...

CHICAGO (AP) — A tap dancer who has spent her life demanding respect for an overlooked art form. A writer at the center of the national conversation a...

CHICAGO (AP) — An effort to identify remains of young men killed by John Wayne Gacy in the 1970s has led to a break in the case of a teenager found sh...

FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — A false report sent dozens of officers scrambling through a cornfield at night in hopes of finding the suspects wanted in the fa...