Man Shot In Woodridge
Officers were called at 7:47 p.m. for reports of gunshots in the 7600 block of Orchard Lane, according to a statement from Woodridge police.
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Officers were called at 7:47 p.m. for reports of gunshots in the 7600 block of Orchard Lane, according to a statement from Woodridge police.
The girl was critically wounded Monday night in a shooting in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
The girl was playing outside her home in the 2100 block of North Bingham Street around 8 p.m., when someone drove up and started shooting. Witnesses heard up to 15 shots.
A man with ties to the Chicago area has been charged with killing a police officer with a car in Memphis, and shooting three other men.
Most recently, a man was killed and a woman was injured early Monday in a South Loop shooting, police said.
Police said a 27-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were in a pickup truck in the 2400 block of South Michigan Avenue around 4 a.m., when two people approached and shot them.
A second man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman who was struck by a pickup truck on Lake Shore Drive while fleeing an armed robbery in the Gold Coast neighborhood.
Jeremy Givens, 26, faces one felony count of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 42-year-old Eugene Bailey on Dec. 24, 2015, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Violent crimes — from homicides and rapes to robberies — have been on the rise in many major U.S. cities, yet experts can't point to a single reason why and the jump isn't enough to suggest there's a trend.
The latest homicide happened Sunday morning in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
The attack happened at 6:49 p.m. in the 2900 block of West Armitage Avenue, police said.
With summer heating up, Chicago police said they will add extra patrols to all city beaches and parks, in the wake of another bloody brawl at North Avenue Beach.
Robert Simon allegedly told police he killed 35-year-old Babette Miller with a .22 caliber handgun after an argument in their apartment
An 18-year-old man and his friend allegedly raped and beat a middle-aged woman so severely in the basement of a Logan Square apartment building, her dentures fell out during the attack and she was left with a broken jaw, cuts and bruises.
A cyclist was injured in an armed robbery on the Lakefront Trail on Thursday near Belmont Harbor; but the apparent weapon of choice was bizarre, if also common in the area.
Murder charges have been filed against one of several suspects in the death of a woman allegedly chased on to Lake Shore drive during an attempted robbery.
Anthony Triplett, now 35, sexually assaulted and strangled Janet Ordidge in her Hyde Park high-rise just weeks before he attacked Urszula Sakowska in her Southwest Side home in December 2006, Cook County prosecutors said.
A Cook County judge has agreed to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the murder case against Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, charged in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Bullets struck a CTA bus in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood after someone on a bicycle opened fire early Thursday.
Markis Hubbs, 24; Kenyon Armstrong, 18; and Marquise Key, 19, have all been charged with one count of armed robbery and two counts of attempted armed robbery, both felonies, according to a statement from Chicago Police. They all also face one misdemeanor count of unlawful use of a weapon.
In both robberies, three people approached someone, showed a handgun and took property, according to an alert from Chicago Police. In one robbery, the suspects drove away in a black Nissan.
Riverside police said 23-year-old James Ussery burglarized a home on the 100 block of North Cowley Road on May 10 as the homeowners and their five children slept.
Chicago suffered through an especially bloody holiday weekend, with 69 people shot over the Memorial Day weekend, including six fatalities. Police said the vast majority of the victims were on a watchlist of sorts – what the department calls its "strategic subject list."
Alicia Johnson, 22, was charged with reckless homicide and leaving the scene of a crash involving injury or death, both felonies, according to a statement from Chicago Police. She also faces on misdemeanor count of failing to exercise due care with a pedestrian in the roadway.
In each robbery, 19-year-old Willie Madden and the 17-year-old boy displayed or implied that they had a handgun and demanded property from the victims, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
