City Tows 175 Cars On First Day Of Winter Overnight Parking Ban
Scores of drivers had to get a ride to the city pound Thursday morning, after their cars were towed overnight on the first day of the city's winter overnight parking ban.
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Scores of drivers had to get a ride to the city pound Thursday morning, after their cars were towed overnight on the first day of the city's winter overnight parking ban.
Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 1:16 a.m. found the 19-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the head and chest in the 300 block of South Whipple, police said.
Crime statistics released by the Chicago Police Department on Thursday showed November was the third deadliest month of the year, with the city on pace to have the highest number of murders in nearly 20 years.
Police said the woman was shot twice in the abdomen during a robbery near 77th and Green streets shortly before 6 a.m.
With the holiday shopping season underway, thieves have been targeting delivery trucks filled with packages.
The latest killing happened just after 8 p.m. in South Shore, where officers responding to a call of shots fired found a 24-year-old man in a gangway with gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen in the 6800 block of South Cornell. He was dead at the scene, police said.
City aviation officials said Wednesday that O'Hare Airport will end a six-month test of a new night runway rotation plan on Christmas morning, as originally scheduled, despite pleas by Schiller Park and Harwood Heights to extend it.
In each incident, one or more armed men wearing masks have approached victims and demanded their property, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
Derrick Kees is a former El Rukn enforcer who took orders back in the 1980s from the gang's onetime leader, Jeff Fort.
Refugio Martinez, 60, of Griffith, Indiana, was charged Monday with criminal recklessness, according to a statement from Gary police.
Roy McCampbell, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft before Cook County Judge Timothy James Joyce, also was ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution, according to court records.
Marjorie Jean Geist's unpaid medical bills total almost $10,000. CBS 2's Brad Edwards reports.
CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley sets the stage for the president-elect's Thursday visit in Indiana with his vice president-elect.
After 9/11, Miguel Perez embraced the Army's ideals: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and courage. CBS 2's Audrina Bigos reports.
They went to the Jordan camp with one goal: to help the tens of thousands of men, women and children living inside those barbed wires. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports.
