The Latest Breaking News from Chicago Police Department

In its current efforts to reform long-running patterns of civil rights abuses, the Chicago Police Department appears to be inching up from failure to “needs improvement.”

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department has improved its training processes for officers and “devoted significant attention” to its foot pursuit policy, while also struggling with community engagement and building trust, according to a report on the department’s progress toward making court-ordered reforms.

While the Chicago Police Department is at some level of compliance with roughly three-fourths of a federal consent decree, a new report raises alarms about staffing, a delayed foot pursuit policy and efforts to build community trust.

CHICAGO — A man was stabbed and beaten outside a CTA station in the South Loop Friday evening in what appears to be at least the fourth similar attack in less than a week, police said.