CTA Crime Up More Than 60% Between June And July
The rise in crime comes at the same time the CTA continues to add cameras on platforms.
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The rise in crime comes at the same time the CTA continues to add cameras on platforms.
Police said three men broke into a couple's apartment near 78th and Ridgeland around 2:15 a.m., and forced them out of bed. The victim started fighting with his attackers, and one of them shot him in the back.
Chicago police are searching for the hit-and-run driver who critically injured a woman who was waiting to cross the street Saturday night in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Ivanka Trump's tweets suggested all of the shootings in Chicago over the weekend happened in one place, "near a playground." That's not even close to being true.
"I absolutely feel for the people whose lives have now been irreparably shattered by this chaos that is coming at the end of a gun," the mayor said.
"Please stop. It's killing our families, it's destroying the fiber of our communities. We have to stop this senseless killing," said Keith Flowers, whose son was killed in a mass shooting in Lawndale on Sunday.
When Chicago Fire Battalion Chief Michael Weilgat arrived at work on Thursday, July 18, he expected it would be just like any other day – until he became the first to respond after a woman was brutally attacked and slashed near DePaul University.
Cullerton, 49, was indicted on one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a labor union, 39 counts of embezzlement from a labor union, and one count of making false statements.
A group of carjackers crashed into four parked cars Thursday night in West Englewood, and ran off before police could catch them.
Police told CBS affiliate WSBT-TV two males and a female were dead in the shooting at the Stratford Commons Apartments at 2601 Oakland Ave around 9 a.m.
A federal judge has granted prosecutors' request for an order restricting access to and what can be said publicly about evidence in singer R. Kelly's child pornography and obstruction of justice case.
Several people have been robbed on CTA trains and platforms in the Loop and South Loop in the past two weeks.
An overnight carjacking ended with a stolen vehicle smashing into a CTA exit, all while passengers in the backseat attempted to fight the thief off.
Another hot weekend ended with dozens of people rushed to the emergency room with gunshot wounds. Shootings left eight people dead and 39 wounded over the weekend.
Jason Gil, 42, was charged with seven felony counts in February; including criminal sexual assault, solicitation of child pornography, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, possession of child pornography, solicitation to meet a child, and grooming.
"We need to bring this man to justice. We need to have him apprehended, because he might go out and next time he might murder somebody, or kill somebody," Raul Montes Jr. said.
A jury deliberated for two hours before finding Harris guilty of shooting Wilson after breaking into his apartment in November 2016.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating allegations of neglect against the family of a 15-year-old girl with special needs, who was the victim of a brutal beating caught on video.
"It broke my heart to see this group of young people turn on her and escalate it into what we saw, a physical assault," Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said.
Kelly faces charges in Chicago accusing him of producing and receiving child pornography, obstruction of justice, and coercing minors to engage in sex.
Two people were arrested after leading police on a chase when officers saw them firing shots in the Roseland neighborhood early Thursday.
The 15-year-old girl who was the victim of a frightening attack caught on video might also have been the victim of a sexual assault, police said, but investigators are still trying to piece together what happened to the girl while she was missing for five days.
Three smash and grab burglars broke into the Neiman Marcus store on the Magnificent Mile early Wednesday morning, stealing designer clothing.
A Glendale Heights man was sentenced to 30 year in the Illinois Department of Corrections for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend in 2016.
Authorities say a 23-year-old tourist from Chicago punched a worker in the face when her FastPass wasn't valid for the Tower of Terror ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
