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A Chicago Police Department lieutenant filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming he was passed over for promotions because of his race and because of comments he made about the investigation into former CPD Officer Jason Van Dyke’s fatal 2016 shooting of Laquan McDonald.

A man who was critically injured in October after being run over by a bus on the South Side has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Transit Authority.

The parents of a boy wounded during the police shooting of a bank robbery suspect on the Northwest Side last week said they want answers from police about what happened.

Matthew Piers, who represents the family of pharmacy resident Dayna Less, said the first shots fired outside Mercy Hospital were in full view of security cameras and witnesses.

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett says his $10,000 payment after the close of a criminal case should prevent Chicago from seeking reimbursement for a police investigation of his claim that he was a victim of a racist and homophobic attack.

A man is suing the AmericInn by Wyndham Hotel in northwest suburban Schaumburg after contracting legionnaires disease at the hotel in August.

The Better Government Association is suing the Chicago Police Department in hopes of getting documents and video related to the incident last month when Supt. Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel of his parked car.

As Jolanda Balssingame cooked dinner and her three children did homework and played games, she says a Chicago Police SWAT team and plainclothes officers busted into their apartment on South Lawndale, used flashbang grenades and pointed guns at her and her children.

Uber is suing the village of Skokie to challenge a tax on ride-hailing services recently passed by the village.

An employee at a Northbrook assisted living facility is being sued for allegedly sexually abusing a resident there.