Tom Schuba

Marquist Evans was standing at the counter of a 7-Eleven on the West Side when two men rolled up in a Jeep and began firing at the car he was in moments earlier, federal authorities say.

Katie Hill, who worked as a policy adviser to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and later as a top official in Chicago’s law department, will replace Roseanna Ander as the crime lab’s executive director. Ander, who helped launch the crime lab, will transition to a new leadership role.

Color of Change, local activists and 10 elected officials sent a letter to the mayor a year after a WBEZ/Sun-Times investigation.

A coalition of advocates and local officials, including three of Johnson's City Council allies, sent a scathing letter Monday pushing the mayor to act on a key campaign promise to root out extremism in the police ranks.

Such appeals have become increasingly difficult to win. In the mid-2000s, more than 30% were successful. Since 2021, only 18% were, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis.

Seventeen cops hired since 2016 have been arrested and washed out of the police department, the Chicago Sun-Times found. Twenty-one more young officers have died, including seven killed in the line of duty and two others who were fatally shot.

One of every six Chicago cops hired since 2016 is no longer on the payroll. About 950 of the more than 5,750 people hired in that period have left. Their average time with the department? Not even three years. Many moved to suburban police departments.

One of every six Chicago cops hired since 2016 is no longer on the payroll. About 950 of the more than 5,750 people hired in that period have left.

Under the mayor's plan, spending for the office charged with implementing reforms to get CPD out from under the costly constraints of a federal consent decree would shrink by 45%, and more than half the positions would be eliminated.

Another person was found shot to death at the shooting scene, according to law enforcement sources. Officers reported over police radio that a damaged SUV fled the area carrying two people, one of whom was armed with an automatic weapon.