For decades, many television shows and movies have glamorized bank heists, but they’re far from the glamour portrayed. Often, tellers and customers are left behind, traumatized in the wake of the crimes.

The ordinance prohibits city agencies and employees from participating in civil immigration enforcement or assisting federal authorities with such efforts.

In all, the settlements approved Wednesday account for nearly half of the city’s annual $82 million budget to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.

Jon Burge, Ronald Watts and Reynaldo Guevara — former police officials implicated in scores of wrongful conviction cases — continue to haunt Chicago taxpayers.

The Chicago Police Department vowed Monday to not comply with or assist federal agencies like ICE when it comes to deporting illegal immigrants.

A federal jury has convicted a Chicago, Illinois man for posing as a tribal chairperson and stealing thousands of dollars from a West Michigan casino.