Burglar Breaks Into Alderman's Office, Steals Tablet Computer
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.
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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.
Ehab Qasem, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of murder on March 8 before Judge Neil J. Linehan at the Bridgeview courthouse, according to the Cook County court records.
Chicago police were conducting a death investigation after the bodies of three young men were found inside a car left in an alley in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood Monday morning.
The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened shortly after 12:30 a.m. Sunday, when two man were killed and another was wounded in an Edgewater neighborhood attack on the North Side.
A 25-year-old woman got into a fight with the girl, who grabbed a knife and stabbed the woman repeatedly in the left arm early Saturday in the 7500 block of South Prairie, according to Chicago Police.
Randall Coffland called 911 Friday evening to say he had just shot and killed his twin 16-year-old daughters, and also shot his wife.
Two people were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting early Friday at a gas station in the Washington Park neighborhood.
A carjacker forced a woman into the trunk of her car in Wrigleyville on Thursday night, and drove her 23 miles to the West Pullman neighborhood before crashing into a tree.
