Dan Mihalopoulos | WBEZ
Investigative reporter, WBEZ Government & Politics Team
The Oath Keepers’ membership rolls included an Illinois state trooper, a campus cop for the University of Illinois Chicago and an officer in a village known as “America’s First Black Town.”
When Chicago cops joined the KKK 55 years ago, the department moved quickly to fire them.
A new civilian oversight panel is working with Chicago police on a policy that would bar officers from joining hate and extremist groups.
A new civilian oversight panel is working with Chicago police on a policy that would bar officers from joining hate and extremist groups.
Reporters with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ filed more than 200 open records requests with the Chicago Police Department and other law enforcement agencies across Illinois.
The anti-government group is best known for plotting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but its notoriety extends years earlier.
An investigation by WBEZ, Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project found allegations of excessive force, improper searches and racist comments on the job.
An investigation by WBEZ, Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project found allegations of excessive force, improper searches and racist comments on the job.
The daughter of disgraced Ald. Danny Solis got ‘verbal counseling’ for failing to report a sexual harassment allegation, records show.