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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s team moving quickly to find interim police superintendent

Those likely to be in running to replace departing interim Supt. Eric Carter include three former members of CPD’s leadership team.

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Chicago Police Supt. David Brown resigns

Every one of the eight mayoral challengers vowed to fire Brown as their first order of business, including the two remaining candidates in the April 4 runoff, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.

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Chicago mayoral candidate Vallas’ Twitter account liked offensive, racist posts, which he denies doing himself

CHICAGO — Since losing the 2019 mayor’s race, Paul Vallas has been a prolific poster on social media.

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Brendan Deenihan, chief of CPD’s detective division, is leaving the force, sources say

Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan is expected to take a job with Google, two sources said, though it wasnt immediately clear what his new role will entail.

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Teen charged in fatal shooting of 7-year-old in his Humboldt Park home

Police say the 16-year-old boy wasn’t the shooter, but he passed a gun to an adult who was also recently arrested in the slaying of Akeem Briscoe.

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Tenant faces murder charge in killing, dismembering of Northwest Side boarding house owner

Sandra Kolalou, 36, is accused of killing Frances Walker, 69. Police say some remains were found in a freezer, others are missing. Friends describe the victim as “gentle, sweet, generous, kind.”

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Human remains found in freezer in Chicago neighborhood, police say

CHICAGO — A suspect is in custody after police found human remains in a freezer on the city’s Far North Side Monday night, according to police.

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Northwest Side neighbors shocked to learn one of their own may have been slaying victim

Remains found in a freezer are believed to be those of a woman who operated a boarding house in Arcadia Terrace. A person who lived in the home is in custody.

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Man charged with beating, carjacking of chef in Chinatown

Jin Yut Lew, 61, “is still not doing well” after he was attacked April 7, police said.

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Man charged with fatal stabbing at Loop CTA stop said victim ‘might still be alive’ if he hadn’t struggled: prosecutors

Anthony Rawls Jr., 28, faces felony counts of first-degree murder and armed robbery in the Sept. 6 attack. He was denied bail Wednesday.

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Retired cop was shot 4 times during shootout with carjackers in Lawndale, 17-year-old charged with attempted murder

Mareon Jones was arrested when he showed up at a hospital wearing the same clothes he did during the attack, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Danny Hanichak said Tuesday.

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Englewood man charged with shooting CPD officer taken into custody in Iowa

Jabari Edwards, 28, faces counts of attempted murder in connection with a June 1 shooting that left Chicago Police Officer Fernanda Ballesteros seriously wounded.

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In Chicago, killings of transgender women of color often go unsolved. ‘There’s no justice,’ relatives say

CHICAGO — Speaking through tears, Rosemary Gamble returns again and again to the questions she would like to ask her granddaughter’s killer:

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More helicopters eyed as a tool for Chicago police to fight carjackings, other crimes

Chicago police officials say they ‘anticipate’ acquiring two helicopters and might use private donations to help pay for them. First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter said it would be ‘ideal’ to have a much larger fleet, like Los Angeles has.

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Police release video footage of group wanted in connection with Loop shooting over weekend

The shooting Sunday stemmed from a robbery during a drug deal at a Taco Bell in the 100 block of North Wabash Street around 5 p.m., according to Chicago police.

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