Cook County Sheriff's office tells Tinley Park crowd how to prevent being a carjacking victim
Police say awareness and knowledge can help you prevent becoming a victim of carjackings.
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Police say awareness and knowledge can help you prevent becoming a victim of carjackings.
After a carjacking and a Red Line attack downtown in the past 24 hours, Chicago Police said they will "ensure appropriate staffing for areas experiencing an increase in activity and crime patterns."
"I didn't want to get in front of the gun, I just wanted to act," one of the witnesses said.
Two juveniles are in custody, after a pregnant woman was carjacked at gunpoint in The Loop Tuesday night.
Lawmakers in Springfield want automakers' help to deal with the carjacking crisis.
Yvonne Ruzich was parked outside of work on Aug. 16, when two teens pulled up in another vehicle, and immediately started shooting.
A man was carjacked at gunpoint in Bucktown Tuesday evening.
Police said the victim was standing outside his vehicle in the 600 block of South Michigan Avenue around 5:30 a.m., when two men walked up and told him to run, or they would kill him.
A man was pushed to the ground by a carjacker on busy Broadway in East Lakeview late Monday.
A man was pushed to the ground by a carjacker on busy Broadway in East Lakeview late Monday.
A rideshare driver with a license to carry shot and wounded a would-be carjacker in the South Austin community on the city's West Side Thursday evening.
A rideshare driver with a license to carry shot and wounded a would-be carjacker in the South Austin community on the city's West Side Thursday evening.
A man was shot and wounded in a carjacking in the South Loop Friday night.
A teenage arrested in connection with a carjacking and shooting that left a mom paralyzed is now being charged as an adult.
A teenage arrested in connection with a carjacking and shooting that left a mom paralyzed is now being charged as an adult.
"The last words that she said was, 'Oh, my God!' and, and that was it," Antoine Moore said.
Police are warning rideshare drivers Wednesday of armed robberies in the South Austin and West Garfield Park neighborhoods.
"And all I could see was him pointing a gun at my grandson and his chest," the grandmother said.
There's a new hub to help rideshare drivers gain access to safety resources, legal support and support networks.
An accused carjacker is in critical condition after crashing a stolen PT Cruiser on Friday afternoon.
Two men escaped a carjacking and shooting overnight in Garfield Ridge.
Two people, including a 15-year-old boy, have been charged with carjacking a man at gunpoint in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Police said a 56-year-old woman was in her BMW SUV in the 2600 block of North Clybourn Avenue around 6:45 p.m. Sunday, when three people walked up, and one of them pointed a gun at her and demanded she get out of the vehicle.
A 25-year-old man was carjacked early Monday morning in the North Center neighborhood.
A man is charged with carjacking an elderly handicapped woman in Logan Square in January, according to police.
