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Retired Chicago Fire Lt. Dwain Williams was murdered in an attempted carjacking in late 2020, and on Saturday, he was commemorated with an honorary street name.
Police said Gabriel Camacho was arrested around 7:50 a.m. Wednesday, less than an hour after he carjacked a 47-year-old woman in the 3300 block of West Schubert, while he was brandishing a blunt object.
Illinois State Police chased the stolen vehicle across four expressways before the suspect crashed into a ditch along the Stevenson Expressway near Joliet.
Two people were taken into custody after a vehicle involved in a carjacking crashed on a ramp from I-94 to I-55.
An 11-year-old charged with carjacking two women at gunpoint last year returns to court Thursday.
A 17-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with carjacking a man at gunpoint near Wrigley Field in December.
A teen has been charged in a carjacking that took place in Armour Square.
"I honestly think because of them intervening that the boys backed off. Maybe they didn't want a part of harming a woman and her two little kids."
A 19-year-old woman is shaken up after she was carjacked at gunpoint for the second time.
With the city's carjacking crisis, car safety is important and on top of mind. But for the first time ever at the Chicago Auto Show, a booth will be set up to provide information on how to not become the next victim.
A 16-year-boy was on electronic monitoring when he carjacked a rideshare driver at gunpoint, and then drove the car several miles before he pulled up to 15-year-old Michael Brown and shot and killed him in the Douglas community this week, prosecutors said.
As you get on the road, this is a reminder about a scary new tactic used by some thieves. They rear end your car, and then steal it.
A man is dead after a carjacking in the South Loop early Sunday morning, according to police.
Three men were arrested and charged following a shootout with police on Lower Wacker Drive Wednesday Night.
Police said the boy was arrested Wednesday in West Englewood, after he was identified as one of the carjackers who stole a car at gunpoint from a 36-year-old woman and a 57-year-old woman on Nov. 19, 2021, near 110th and Harding.
Police are warning people in the Park Manor neighborhood after three carjackings last week.
"I feel horrible for them because their child had to go through that."
At this point, neighbors in on area of Bucktown are afraid to warm up their cars, or dig out the snow with the car running.
Video shows a silver car get plowed into by a red sport-utility vehicle and then go crashing into someone's yard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Behind the wheel of that silver car was a thief trying to steal it.
Multiple people were arrested following a carjacking bust, according to authorities.
Police said the boys, ages 16 and 17, hit a 33-year-old woman in the face with a weapon and forced her out of her vehicle in the 5000 block of West Lawrence Avenue.
A mother got carjacked Wednesday afternoon while waiting to pick up her child from school in Oak Park.
A man who witnessed the incident confronted the carjacker, but the thief threatened him with a gun and drove off.
Two parents with a baby ran to Lurie Children's Hospital for help late Wednesday after being carjacked in Streeterville.
The boy is charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking.
