Police To Step Up Lakefront Patrols After Brawls At North Avenue Beach
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.
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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.
The murder-for-hire trial of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson is winding down.
A 24-year-old woman was charged with DUI and child endangerment after a crash in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side that that left her and four passengers injured early Monday.
Neighbors said at least 30 teenagers seemingly appear out of nowhere near the Harper Square Cooperative at 4800 S. Lake Park Av.
Barely halfway into the Memorial Day weekend, nearly as many people have been shot across Chicago as the entire holiday weekend last year, with police promising to step up patrols even further.
Police were investigating some discrepancies in a story about a robbery attempt just before woman was killed and her boyfriend was injured when they were hit by a truck on Lake Shore Drive early Sunday in the Gold Coast neighborhood.
The most recent homicide happened Saturday evening in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side.
In both incidents, the victims were approached by a man who was armed with a handgun and announced a robbery, then took the victims' property, according to Chicago Police.
A 51-year-old man was walking in a crosswalk about 11:15 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Stony Island Avenue when he was struck by a southbound red Impala, police said. The car sped away after the crash.
Former congressman Mel Reynolds has asked a federal judge to grant him a three-month delay in his upcoming trial on misdemeanor tax evasion charges, claiming he can't prepare his case because of the conditions at the jail where he is being held.
Officers responding to reports of a domestic disturbance in the 5600 block of South Wolcott at 12:30 a.m. found the 26-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head in a second-floor apartment, according to Chicago Police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The men, ages 20 and 25, were standing outside near 102nd and State at 2:48 a.m. when they heard shots and realized they'd been hit, according to Chicago Police.
