String Of Muggings Reported On South, Southwest Sides
In each incident, the robbers walked up to victims and demanded property, according to an alert from Chicago Police.
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In each incident, the robbers walked up to victims and demanded property, according to an alert from Chicago Police.
The older man was shot in the left arm, police said. The younger man suffered a graze wound to the left arm and refused medical treatment.
The theft occurred on July 18 at the Duneland Eliquid vape shop, 1050 Broadway, according to the Chesterton Police Department.
The National Johns Suppression Initiative ran its 14th operation from June 28-July 31, according to the Cook County sheriff's office.
Mount Prospect police said Scott Weissert, of Arlington Heights, has been charged with one count of residential burglary.
In both incidents, someone used force to enter a business in the 3100 block of South Morgan and remove cash and miscellaneous items.
The day's latest shooting left a 15-year-old boy wounded in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
More than 400 people have been slain in Chicago this year, compared to 390 through the end of July 2016.
The men were walking at 2:48 a.m. in the 7500 block of South South Shore Drive when another male pulled out a gun and fired shots at them.
In the city's latest fatal shooting, 38-year-old Delano Jones was killed in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Kevin Hood had just opened his newest business a few weeks ago, and was still celebrating the grand opening Friday night, when he was slain.
The president says he told Mayor Rahm Emanuel about a Chicago police officer who guarantees he can fix the problem.
A 42-year-old man was walking near Congress Parkway and St. Louis Avenue around 3:30 a.m., when a passing vehicle hit him and kept going.
Chicago has logged nearly two homicides per day, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The victims were standing on the sidewalk at 10:38 p.m. in the 2000 block of East 71st Street when someone inside a tan minivan fired shots.
Firefighters responding to a crash in the South shore neighborhood found themselves under fire, and their fire truck was struck by a bullet.
The 55-year-old was stabbed in the left side of his chest at 1:36 a.m. in the 1500 block of South Millard, according to Chicago Police.
The latest robbery happened about 2 p.m. Wednesday at the U.S. Bank branch at 3252 W. 63rd St., according to the FBI.
The search for a suspect in a Dolton shooting is ongoing after no one was found when an hours-long standoff ended on Wednesday night.
A proposed ordinance would require sellers or dealers of used phones to check a database of stolen phones before they could make a sale.
Two men were wounded early Wednesday in an East Garfield Park neighborhood shooting on the West Side.
The man was the latest of 368 people killed in gun violence this year, adding to the more than 2,096 people shot in the city this year.
Dante Jeffries, 27, faces seven felony charges after he was arrested just after 10:30 p.m. on Saturday in the 600 block of West Hubbard.
The year's shooting death toll rose to 367 after the violence Monday, with more than 2,086 people shot in the city since the start of the year
A person was killed and 11 others were wounded in separate shootings across Chicago between Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
