Des Plaines police said the 21-year-old man fatally shot by police Wednesday afternoon was "armed with an electric hedge trimmer."
The family of Derek Jordan spoke publicly Friday after attorneys filed a civil lawsuit against a Chicago police officer and the City of Chicago, alleging the officer used unjustified deadly force in the shooting that killed Jordan.
The city of Madison, Wisconsin cleared out a protest encampment at the site of a recent deadly police shooting.
A Chicago man has now pleaded guilty to trying to kill a U.S. marshal and his K-9 officer companion.
Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff's deputy who was convicted for shooting Sonya Massey, was denied early release by a prisoner review board on Friday.
Sean Grayson's case will go before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on Friday, less than six months into the 20-year prison sentence he received after being convicted of Sonya Massey's murder He filed for release, citing symptoms of advanced colon cancer.