CHICAGO -- Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer convicted of murdering 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, was sentenced to 81 months, or 6 years and 9 months, in prison and two years mandatory ...

CHICAGO — Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who fired 16 deadly shots into Laquan McDonald more than four years ago, was sentenced Friday to just shy of seven years in an Illinois prison, ...

The lawyer for a white Chicago police officer who has been charged with murder in the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager insinuated on Wednesday that video of the shooting is unreliable, while ...

The city's police force has come under new scrutiny in recent days, after two more people — a 19-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman — were... Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke pleaded not guilty ...