The family of a Chicago North Lawndale man fatally shot by police last week filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday against the City of Chicago and the Police Department.

This shooting is the latest in a continuous string of public embarrassments for the Chicago Police Department. Mayor Daley has had to react to the recent rash of deaths, shootings and tasings by instituting a national search for a leader for the department who can restore the public’s confidence in knowing that Chicago is, indeed, protected by the nation’s finest. Romanucci & Blandin has successfully ...

In yet another blow to the families of those killed and injured in the 2003 Lincoln Park porch collapse in Chicago, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled Wednesday that the City of Chicago cannot be held liable for negligence that the families say led to the tragedy.

Families of the 13 people killed and dozens of others injured had sued the city, among others, after records showed city officials inspected the porch at 713 W. Wrightwood but failed to cite property owners for obvious defects that experts said caused the collapse.

The Appellate Court said that, under state law, the city is immune ...