2 Killed, 15 Wounded In Wednesday Shootings Across Chicago
Two people were killed and 15 others — including a 12-year-old boy and several teens — were wounded in shootings across the city Wednesday.
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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."
The last suspect wanted in connection with the slaying of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee has been arrested after being pulled over in a traffic stop downstate.
Hong Chu, of the 3100 block of South Throop, approached a man in his car at 6:45 p.m. Sunday in the 3400 block of South Bell Avenue in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side and told the man he was a police officer, police said.
About 1 p.m. Sunday, someone spotted Sherwin Degraffenreid carrying tools while leaving a building he'd just burglarized in the 1700 block of West Hubbard, according to Chicago Police.
In each robbery, the victim was walking from either the Morse or Loyola Red Line stations when they were approached by multiple people who hit them and took their property, according to a community alert from Chicago Police. The robbers took money, wallets, a back pack, work uniforms and a cell phone.
The latest shooting left a man dead Sunday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Four people have been charged with robbing a store before leading police on a chase from the Near North Side to the Loop during rush hour Thursday evening.
In all four incidents, two men walked up to victims in their vehicles, pulled out guns and took their property before driving away in a blue Chevrolet Impala or black Nissan Altima, according to a community alert from police.
A 15-year-old girl was fatally stabbed Saturday evening in the South Side Parkway Gardens neighborhood.
A man was killed and at least five other people were wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, according to Chicago Police.
A 33-year-old man has been ordered held without bail, accused of choking an 8-year-old girl unconscious in a public restroom in the South Loop.
The man, thought to be in his 20s, was shot in the back in the 13000 block of South King Drive about 4:30 a.m., according to Chicago Police.
The homicide happened about 12:30 a.m. in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
