At Least 5 Luxury Cars Stolen From Evanston Dealership
Evanston police said one of the garage doors had been opened, and three BMWs and a Porsche were stolen.
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Evanston police said one of the garage doors had been opened, and three BMWs and a Porsche were stolen.
It was the city's first fatal shooting since Tuesday night, a span of nearly 55 hours that marked Chicago's longest stretch without a gun homicide so far this year.
Just after midnight, a woman in her 20s was standing on a front porch of a home in the 6300 block of South Rockwell when two people walked up and fired shots, hitting her in the head, according to Chicago Police. She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.
Wauconda High School was evacuated Thursday afternoon while police investigated a bomb threat. Police said everyone was safe, and the threat remained under investigation.
The day's latest shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.
A woman has been charged with driving away after a hitting three pedestrians with her vehicle, including a 2-year-old child, on Wednesday morning in north suburban Morton Grove.
Hours after President Donald Trump suggested it would be a good idea to sit down with Chicago gang leaders, and again said he might have to take matters into his own hands to address violent crime in the city, Mayor Rahm Emanuel essentially told the new president to put his money where his mouth is.
Tommy Crockwell, 47, of Country Club Hills was found guilty of first-degree murder in November after a bench trial before Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak, according to the Will County state's attorney's office.
Dr. Darrell Scott, senior pastor of New Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was a guest of Trump's at an African-American History Month meeting at the White House, and claimed he was "contacted by some of the top gang thugs in Chicago for a sit-down."
It was a violent start to 2017 in Chicago, with the number of shootings nearly duplicating the tally from the start of last year, which ended up being the city's bloodiest year in nearly two decades.
James A. Doran, 60, has been charged with six felony counts of possession of a controlled substance, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia and driving without a license, according to a statement from Riverside police.
Marcus Cameron, 22, was found about 7:40 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the head in the 4500 block of South Prairie in the Bronzeville neighborhood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
The couple made off with an unspecified amount of cash about 3:30 p.m. from the bank at 3570 N. Elston Ave., according to the FBI. No weapons were shown, and no one was hurt.
Surveillance videos captured the armed robbery of a restaurant in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Lasonya T. Butler, 43, faces one count of aggravated battery, according to Elmhurst police.
Antoine L. Howard, 38, was shot near his home in the 2600 block of Madison Street in Gary, according to the Lake County coroner's office.
A person turned himself in to SWAT officers early Tuesday after pouring gasoline throughout his northwest suburban Wauconda home and barricading himself inside for more than eight hours.
A white Toyota Corolla was driving north on Central Park Avenue about 2:30 p.m. when a silver Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan speeding east on Garfield Square Drive disregarded a stop sign and struck the driver side of the Toyota, according to Chicago Police.
The 6-foot, thin black man in his 30s was wearing a White Sox hat, sunglasses, a gray hooded sweatshirt and a dark blue winter jacket while making off with an unspecified amount of cash from the bank at 8001 Cass Ave. in Darien, authorities said. He didn't shown a weapon, and no one was hurt.
Bond was denied Monday for a man charged with a Gold Coast neighborhood shooting early Saturday that left three men wounded, including an off-duty Cook County sheriff's officer working security at a Near North Side bar.
The robber, a black man thought to be in his late 20s or early 30s, made off with an unspecified amount of cash about 6 p.m. inside a Jewel grocery store at 7122 W. 40th St., authorities said.
A new study out this week suggests that the loss of jobs in Chicago's inner city has been a major factor in the rising crime rates in some neighborhoods.
The latest fatal shooting happened about 11 p.m. Sunday in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Officers responded about 12:35 a.m. to check on the well-being of the 55-year-old man and found him inside the home in the 8500 block of South Colfax, according to Chicago Police.
Yonatan D. Monrroy-Madrid, 19, faces one felony count of aggravated DUI causing an accident resulting in a death, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
