Police Warn Of Armed Robberies In Avondale, Logan Square
At least three businesses have been robbed at gunpoint in the two neighborhoods since Sunday, according to a community alert from police.
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At least three businesses have been robbed at gunpoint in the two neighborhoods since Sunday, according to a community alert from police.
The most recent fatal shooting happened Wednesday afternoon in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. A 26-year-old man was killed and a 62-year-old woman seriously wounded in the 7900 block of South Laflin about 2:50 p.m.
Police say the pair entered a T-Mobile store at 95th and Jeffrey. When they announced they were going to rob the store, an employee was ready.
A 26-year-old man was killed and a 62-year-old woman seriously wounded Wednesday afternoon in a shooting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
A shooting on the Skyway left a man dead and a woman wounded Wednesday afternoon, according to Chicago Police.
Howard Walker, 64, went outside his home in the 14200 block of South Tracy Avenue around 5 a.m. to warm up his car for his wife, when he was confronted by at least one armed attacker. Walker also was armed, and pulled out his weapon, exchanging gunfire with the attacker.
John Bills is accused of fixing a key commission vote to secure an initial deal for Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. in 2003. Redflex later signed other deals for Chicago's first red light enforcement program.
Most recently, a man was critically wounded in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Alisha Walker loudly sobbed for several minutes when detectives told her that the Brother Rice High School teacher who had hired her for sex had died after they fought in his Orland Park home.
The boy, whose name was not released because he is a minor, faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm for the attack that happened about 3:30 p.m. Jan. 5, Chicago Police announced Tuesday night.
The 23-year-old was sitting in a parked vehicle talking with his girlfriend in the 5900 block of North Kenmore Avenue about 1:25 p.m. when he heard people arguing outside and shots rang out, according to Chicago Police.
Robert Michael, the former CEO of the failed Citizens Bank played the role of federal defendant Monday as prosecutors put him on trial for alleged fraud, lies and money laundering tied to real estate deals involving disgraced former Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans.
A man was found shot to death in the street about 9:20 p.m. in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Albert Leon Bowen, 64, was in the custody at the prison at 71 W. Van Buren St. when he was transferred to Thorek Hospital on Dec. 19, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office and a statement from the U.S. Marshals Service. He died at the hospital at 4:26 a.m. Jan. 6.
A man suspected of at least three bank robberies on the South Side and in the south suburbs struck again Saturday morning.
Blaique P. Morgan, 19; and his 17-year-old brother were both charged with three counts of murder, according to the Will County sheriff's office.
Jury selection in John Bills' trial gets underway Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Chicago U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon will be among the trial prosecutors.
In both incidents, the suspect or suspects robbed a delivery driver at gunpoint while the driver is out of the car and making a delivery, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
A man charged with shooting a 15-year-old boy last month in the South Side Englewood neighborhood has been ordered held on a $750,000 bond.
Bail was set at $1 million Sunday for two men charged with fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy in a Brighton Park neighborhood drive-by shooting late Thursday on the Southwest Side.
Chicago Police are searching for a man who exposed himself to an 8-year-old girl last week in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Police say they beat the 77-year-old woman after breaking into her home on North Magnolia around 6 a.m.
Two men and a woman were stabbed during a domestic argument early Saturday in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side, police said.
Seven men were killed and at least 22 other people have been wounded in Chicago shootings since Friday evening, police said.
Six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman – Chicago's "Public Enemy Number One" – has been captured, according to a Twitter message from Mexico's president.
