Man Charged With Kidnapping Girl In Ford Heights
The girl was found in Charles Howard's back yard in Ford Heights late Saturday night.
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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.
Shortly after midnight May 21 in the first block of East Garfield, the man got into a fight with 30-year-old Semial Sigle, pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
In both incidents, a white or Hispanic man between 20 and 30 years old walked up to the victim and demanded their property, police said.
In each break-in, someone forced open the rear or front door of a home and stole property from inside, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
The 31-year-old man was arguing with a female in an apartment in the 6600 block of South Drexel at 2:25 a.m. when she stabbed him in the chest, according to police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.
Police are cautioning residents of the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side after several home burglaries were reported in a matter of days within blocks of each other earlier this month.
The 41-year-old walked into Community First Medical Center about 2:45 a.m. with a gunshot wound to the neck, according to Chicago Police. His condition was stabilized.
The 35-year-old was standing on the sidewalk about 3:40 a.m. in the 4900 block of West Huron when two males walked up, one of whom pulled out a gun and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
The 33-year-old was standing on the street in the 1100 block of North Leclaire about 2:30 a.m. when someone walked up and fired shots at him, according to Chicago Police.
About 1:45 a.m., the 21-year-old was standing on a front porch in the 4300 block of West Wilcox when he heard gunfire and realized he'd been shot, according to Chicago Police.
The latest homicide happened about 10:45 p.m., when a man was killed in an Englewood neighborhood drive-by shooting on the South Side, police said.
The weekend's latest homicide happened Sunday morning in Englewood on the South Side.
A person on foot fired shots at the men about 11:55 a.m. in the 8200 block of South Woodlawn and then fled, Chicago Police said.
Federal authorities are investigating $2.6 million taken from retirement accounts of 58 city employees in the form of fraudulent loans.
The most recent homicides happened early Sunday in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side.
Emergency crews were called at 4:08 p.m. Wednesday to the store at 2209 Howard St. following the explosion involving a plastic bottle inside the women's bathroom.
Dion Robinson faces one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of unlawful use of a machine gun by a felon, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state's attorney's office.
A 44-year-old woman has been taken into custody in connection to a small explosion in the women's restroom of a Target store in Evanston.
Yorkville police said volunteers at the Kendall County Food Pantry came forward about suspicious transactions and possible misuse of funds.
The most recent fatal shooting was an 18-year-old man who was shot to death in West Englewood about 8:10 p.m., police said.
It has been just over two weeks since the "Walking Man" – Joseph Kromelis – was attacked and ended up in the hospital, and his nephew said he's "hitting roadblocks everywhere" he goes in his effort to get him money he raised for his medical bills.
The 37-year-old man was driving in a vehicle in the 5800 block of South Wabash at 12:40 a.m. when he heard shots and realized he'd been hit, according to Chicago Police.
Shane Stokowski died trying to help the man who ended up killing him. Seeing an inebriated patron leave a West Town bar, Stokowski, 33, pleaded with the stranger who got behind the wheel: "You don't want to do this."
