Girl, 6, Back Home From 2nd Trip To Hospital After Shooting
After a second visit to the hospital, a 6-year-old girl who was shot in the back while playing outside in Logan Square was back home and doing well.
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After a second visit to the hospital, a 6-year-old girl who was shot in the back while playing outside in Logan Square was back home and doing well.
The 25-year-old was walking down the street in the 2400 block of West 68th Street at 2:10 a.m. when he heard shots and realized he'd been hit in the back, according to Chicago Police.
She was standing at a bus stop in the 8200 block of South Ashland at 12:39 a.m. when a male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt walked up and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police. When she attempted to pull pepper spray out of her purse, the suspect shot her in the arm and side.
The siblings were trying to break up an argument between their mom and the 65-year-old man at 2:48 a.m. in the 8700 block of South Commercial when the man grabbed a knife and stabbed them, according to Chicago Police.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded in an Auburn Gresham neighborhood shooting early Wednesday on the South Side.
At 3:38 p.m., the suspects entered the branch at 800 N. Harlem Ave. in River Forest and announced the bank robbery while "aggressively" pointing a black handgun at multiple employees, according to FBI spokesman Garrett Croon.
Area Central detectives are investigating after a vehicle was damaged by gunfire early Tuesday while driving on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side.
In the wake of another bloody weekend in Chicago, police said they have seized more than 4,200 guns this year – more than one per hour.
Two men, thought to be in their 20s, pistol-whipped a man and robbed him of two iPhones after he approached them and asked for directions.
Most recently, a 21-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to the buttocks in an Austin neighborhood drive-by shooting on the West Side.
Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy said the victim was walking east in the 1700 block of West 46th Street around 1:30 p.m. when a light-colored Saturn sedan drove up, and someone inside started shooting.
The teens were standing near a home on the west side of Dodge Avenue and shots came from between two houses on the east side of Dodge, police said.
Devon Quinn was riding in a car in the 6100 block of South Kimbark Avenue around 6:15 p.m., when a gunman drove up and started shooting.
The most recent homicide happened about 1:30 a.m. Monday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 7300 block of South University found the 22-year-old man lying in the gangway, according to Chicago Police.
A teenager was shot and killed Sunday afternoon, when someone opened fire with an assault rifle outside a Catholic church in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
In the most recent fatal shooting, a 33-year-old man was in a vehicle about 8:20 p.m. traveling southbound in the 7600 block of South Eggleston in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire, according to from Chicago Police.
The suspect did not show a weapon and no one was injured in the robbery, authorities said.
Heriberto Aguirre, 28, was charged with one felony count each of reckless homicide involving a motor vehicle and failure to report a fatal accident, police announced Saturday.
Most recently, a man and woman were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide Saturday morning in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Juan Robles, 35, approached the 20-year-old woman from behind and grabbed her waist at 8:15 a.m. in the 2700 block of South Keeler Avenue, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
Officers received a call of shots fired in the 4800 block of West Monroe in Austin just before 5:30 a.m. Saturday and found a 23-year-old man lying face down, police said. He was shot several times and was dead at the scene.
An Indiana man who said he was headed to a gay pride event had a loaded assault rifle with magazines rigged to allow 60 shots to be fired in quick succession, along with 15 pounds of chemicals mixed and ready to explode, according to police in California.
The girl was found in Charles Howard's back yard in Ford Heights late Saturday night.
A 22-year-old man was shot to death about 7 p.m. in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
In each incident, the robber entered a retail store or gas station and, while in line to pay at the register, announced a robbery and displayed a handgun to the clerk, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
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Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in October, plans to attend President Trump's State of the Union address to Congress later this month, according to her attorney.
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Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
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Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
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January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
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Police in Chicago's south and southwest suburbs are teaming up to target thieves targeting video gambling machines, which have become an increasingly popular target for burglary crews.
An eagle-eyed drone pilot helped spot a missing foster puppy who had been out in the cold for more than two weeks in Chicago's northwest suburbs.
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