Girl, 16, Sexually Assaulted At A Home On West Side
Police said a 16-year-old girl was beaten and raped inside a home in the Austin neighborhood Monday evening.
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Police said a 16-year-old girl was beaten and raped inside a home in the Austin neighborhood Monday evening.
Defense attorney Patrick Blegen tried to further undermine the testimony of a key eyewitness, Shanice Peatry, who said at trial how she saw a masked man kill her fiancé, Keith Daniels, outside her Dolton home as they sat in a car with their two small children.
A former northwest suburban man was so deeply in debt because of his penchant for female escorts and other extravagances, that he murdered his grandmother in order to speed up his inheritance, according to prosecutors. On Tuesday, Kane County jurors agreed.
At least six people were wounded in shootings in a span of less than five hours Tuesday on Chicago's South and West sides.
Jeremy J. Lind, 42, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse before Judge Dennis Porter, according to Cook County court records.
A 47-year-old woman was shot in the face Monday evening, when a stray bullet went through the window of a Calumet City daycare center.
Brian Brundage, former owner of Chicago Heights-based Intercon Solutions Inc. and current owner of Gary, Indiana-based EnviroGreen Processing LLC, was indicted on five counts of income tax evasion, four counts of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.
A 58-year-old man was stabbed in the chest at 7:37 p.m. during a domestic altercation in the 4300 block of South Ellis, according to Chicago Police.
The "non-takeover" robbery happened at 3:49 p.m. at the branch at 87 W. 87th St., according to the FBI.
An Englewood man has been charged with shooting two others and accidentally wounding himself on a party bus early Sunday in the Lakeview neighborhood.
The latest attack happened about 7:30 p.m. in North Austin, where a 16-year-old boy heard gunfire in the 1300 block of North Latrobe and realized he'd been hit in the leg, according to Chicago Police.
A 34-year-old man was killed early Sunday in the Irving Park neighborhood in the weekend's latest fatal shooting.
Reginald Jackson, 27, faces one felony count of unlawful use of a weapon in connection with the Saturday afternoon shooting, according to Chicago Police.
Officers responded to a burglar alarm at 10:48 p.m. at Pocket Puppies, 2479 N. Clark St., and found a door open and a lock box missing, Chicago Police said. An unknown amount of cash was stolen.
Two men were charged after two police officers were pushed and bitten while responding to a domestic disturbance Friday afternoon in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
At least 35 people have been shot — eight of them fatally — across the city since Friday afternoon, according to Chicago Police.
The FBI said there were 138 bank robberies in the Chicago area and northern Illinois in 2015. As of Friday morning, here had been 184 of them in 2016.
The male victim, whose age was not immediately known, was shot in the chest and head at 8:41 a.m. in the 600 block of North Long, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Devontay Murray, 19, faces counts of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder for the July 25 attack near his home in the 6600 block of South Michigan, according to Chicago Police.
Ron Allen, of Naperville, was heading back home after playing cards with friends on Dec. 2, when someone shot him as he was driving on the 1300 block of North Laramie Avenue.
Willa Wickerson, of the 6700 block of South Parnell Avenue was charged with a felony count of first degree murder, Chicago Police said Friday.
Officers responding to a call of a person down at 1:07 a.m. found 30-year-old Lavaris Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1600 block of South Millard, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. The circumstances of the attack were unknown.
Just after 10 p.m., a car pulled up to a 30-year-old man's vehicle as he was driving in the 1800 block of South Pulaski in Lawndale and opened fire, hitting him in the left arm, according to Chicago Police.
Michael Kirollos, 30, has been charged with three counts of threatening a public official.
District Attorney John Chisholm charged Dominique Heaggan-Brown with first-degree reckless homicide.
