Far South Side Man Charged With Murder Of Second Child
Devon Thomas has been charged with the murder of his 4-month-old daughter, following an attack on his pregnant fiancé and 3-year-old son last Halloween that also left the boy dead.
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Devon Thomas has been charged with the murder of his 4-month-old daughter, following an attack on his pregnant fiancé and 3-year-old son last Halloween that also left the boy dead.
A man impersonating an Uber driver drove two women to north suburban Skokie and sexually assaulted them in the last month, police said.
A missing 15-year-old girl who had been seen in a "disgusting" Facebook Live video showing her being sexually assaulted has been found, and has been reunited with her mother.
Cleveland-area pastor Darrell Scott abruptly canceled a planned meeting Tuesday with "street leaders" eager to bring an end to violence in Chicago with the help of President Donald Trump.
Alen Hurem, 26, was ordered held without bond on Monday for the 4 a.m. attack in the parking lot of Chasers Sports Bar & Grill at 9003 N. Milwaukee Ave., according to Niles police and the Cook County sheriff's office.
Federal prosecutors say the woman who stole nearly $1 million from the Field Museum while working there for a decade used the money to buy expensive clothing, watches, handbags and to drive "one luxury car after another."
The video that she says shows her daughter in various stages of undress with several young men. CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports.
A burglar stole a computer from Ald. Deb Mell's office in the Irving Park neighborhood, after smashing a the glass front door early Monday.
Several passengers pummeled a ride-share driver as he was dropping them off overnight, causing him to crash into a home in the Brainerd neighborhood.
A man was shot Monday morning while walking to the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in the Little Village neighborhood.
The weekend's first shooting left a 17-year-old boy dead in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
A man has been charged with carjacking a woman in Wrigleyville, forcing her into the trunk, and raping her, before leading police on a chase that ended in West Pullman.
Chicago police were warning people on the North Side about a recent string of violent robberies in Ravenswood and Uptown.
About 3:25 a.m., the male suspect broke in through a glass pane front door at the ward office at 3001 W. Irving Park Rd., authorities said.
The man suffered minor facial injuries and was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, police said.
Two people were killed and at least ten others have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday afternoon.
About 2:30 a.m., they were inside an establishment in the 3800 block of West Chicago when someone opened fire, hitting him in the chest and her in the ankle, according to Chicago Police.
About 2:20 a.m., the 33-year-old was outside in the 7500 block of South Perry when someone in a gray truck pulled up and opened fire, hitting him in the leg and buttocks, according to Chicago Police.
Just before 1 a.m., the teen was in the alley of the 3400 block of West 21st Street when two shooters opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
The toddler was playing "cops and robbers" with other children about 5 p.m. inside an Englewood home in the 6200 block of South Aberdeen when he was accidentally shot in the head, apparently with his mother's gun which had been left unlocked, according to Chicago Police.
Chicago police say the child had an injury to the head.
Police Supt. Eddie Johnson was in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions about gun violence in Chicago.
Police were called to the 6500 block of North Onarga at 11:37 p.m. Tuesday for a "distraught male" in a vehicle, police said. He was taken into custody about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation. No one was injured.
Bond was set at $1 million Wednesday for a south suburban man charged with robbing a gas station early Tuesday in Homer Glen and then returning to steal a customer's vehicle at the same station.
People living in poverty are more likely to become victims of violent crime than higher income earners whether they live in cities, suburbs or rural areas, but the rural poor experience crime at higher rates, according to a Wednesday report by a Chicago research group.
