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U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman is sending Adel Daoud to a psychiatric facility for three months, saying he lacks a rational understanding of the legal proceedings at this time.
A 50-year-old woman was mugged Tuesday afternoon on the same block as Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home in the Ravenswood neighborhood.
A federal judge will consider on Thursday whether a suburban Chicago terrorism suspect who says aliens and Freemasons are after him is mentally fit for trial.
The most recent fatal shooting happened Wednesday morning in Englewood.
A lawyer for Tarrill Peters Jr. said the then-17-year-old was only trying to flee the neighborhood in his mother's rented Buick LaCrosse after some relatives started viciously beating his father.
Antowaun Mathis, 31, was arrested at a residence in Hampton, Virginia, the marshals service said. The arrest occurred without incident. Mathis was held in the Hampton City Jail awaiting extradition.
The 24-year-old was sitting in a vehicle at 4:13 a.m. in the 5400 block of South Bishop when he was shot in the chest, neck and arm, according to Chicago Police.
At 12:53 a.m., the 23-year-old was in the 500 block of North Kedzie when a vehicle approached and the man got into an argument with a passenger, who then pulled out a handgun and fired shots, according to Chicago Police.
Most recently, a man was found shot to death in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.
A new law in Illinois designed to curb the numbers of sexual assaults on college campuses -- and to hold schools to a higher standard -- has gone into effect as college students are heading back to class for the fall.
Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation to dramatically increase the penalties for those caught illegally transporting guns into Illinois.
A 68-year-old man was gunned down at 10:06 a.m. in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
Under the new law, a first conviction of trafficking guns will carry a sentence of four to 20 years in prison. A subsequent offense will be punishable by up to 30 years.
Alexis Ellers, an instructor in the Early Exposures summer photography class, said the idea of selling some of the photos taken by Tavon Tanner and his classmates came as she prepared the students for an exhibition at the end of the camp.
Police said the man was shot in the head shortly after 10 a.m. in the 2600 block of South Indiana Avenue.
Police said the shooting happened around 9:45 a.m. on Kedzie Avenue just south of Madison Street.
The weekend's latest homicides happened within 20 minutes of each other Sunday afternoon on the Southwest and West sides.
Jamiah Barnes, 8, was crossing the street to attend a prayer vigil for a 14-year-old boy who had been slain earlier in the day, just three blocks away, when two men began arguing and someone began shooting. Jamiah was shot in the forearm, and a 40-year-old woman was shot in the hand.
Authorities are still asking for the public's help in finding the killer or killers of an elderly woman and her son last week inside their rural DeKalb County home.
Donald Neal Jr. was found with a gunshot wound to the chest at Jefferson and Locust streets in Hammond about 3:30 a.m.
The victim has been identified as Julio Servin, 22, of Cicero.
A 68-year-old man was stabbed to death in the Northwest Side Logan Square neighborhood Saturday evening, according to police.
A man was stabbed Saturday afternoon in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side.
A man was killed and at least 11 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening, according to police.
The shooting happened in the 200 block of Torrence Avenue about 11:40 p.m., according to a statement from Calumet City police.
