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Cook County prosecutors laid out the grisly details of how a young man killed six relatives in February, after he and his girlfriend went to the family's home to rob them of a few hundred dollars to buy milk and diapers for their own baby.
Jury selection is set to begin in the murder-for-hire trial of Drew Peterson, the former suburban Chicago police officer accused of plotting to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars in his third wife's death.
A 68-year-old truck driver was headed north on the Dan Ryan between 95th Street and 87th Street when he was shot through the driver's side window shortly before midnight. A bullet struck him in the face.
At 2:41 a.m., the 36-year-old man was going to an ATM in 2300 block of West Madison when a masked male walked up behind him, according to Chicago Police.
The 23-year-old woman was standing outside in the 5000 block of West Quincy at 12:30 a.m. when she heard gunfire and realized she'd been shot, according to Chicago Police.
They were standing on a sidewalk about 9 p.m. in the 6800 block of South Bishop when someone fired shots from a nearby alley, according to Chicago Police.
He was sitting in a parked vehicle about 9:40 p.m. in the 0-100 block of North Lockwood when three males walked up to the vehicle and fired shots, according to Chicago Police.
Damarcus Williams, 16, was found shot in the head at 1:12 p.m. in the 6100 block of South Evans Avenue, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police have arrested two people in connection with the February slaying of a family of six in the Gage Park neighborhood.
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been ordered to report to prison by June 22 to begin serving a 15-month sentence in his hush-money case.
Police said the incident began on Lake Shore Drive near Michigan Avenue, where a vehicle began following the victims' car.
The 34-year-old was in a car in the 2600 block of West North Avenue about midnight when another vehicle pulled up alongside and someone fired into the car, according to Chicago Police. The car the victim was in then crashed into a building.
Joseph Lampignano, 43, of Itasca, is charged with one count of mail fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.
Two people were killed and 15 others — including a 12-year-old boy and several teens — were wounded in shootings across the city Wednesday.
A 45-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon while shopping at a South Holland cell phone store, when two men robbed the shop at gunpoint.
Police in south suburban South Holland were searching for a suspect wanted in the deadly armed robbery of a cell phone store.
The homicide happened about 9:30 p.m. in Humboldt Park on the West Side.
The girls, ages 13 and 15, were walking their dog near Chicago and Keystone avenues about 7:10 p.m. when a white van with green stripes pulled alongside them, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
A 13-year-old girl was facing charges as a juvenile in the murder of 16-year-old De'Kayla Dansberry, who was killed in a fight in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on Saturday.
A black University of Iowa student from Illinois lied about being the victim of a hate crime and was actually an aggressor during several drunken fights that began inside a bar, police said Tuesday.
A woman was dragged into a car, and sexually assaulted in the Brighton Park neighborhood Sunday night.
Ronald Lewis faces one federal count of bank robbery, according to a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court.
The latest homicide happened Sunday night in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Police were warning CTA riders after three people were beaten and robbed as they left Red Line stations in Rogers Park.
Chicago police were investigating a threat at a charter school on the South Side, after a Facebook post claiming there would be "another Sandy Hook killing."
