Police: 1 Killed, 4 Wounded In Monday Shootings
A man was found shot to death in the street about 9:20 p.m. in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
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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.
A woman's bid for a new trial in the 2009 death of a toddler under her care will have to wait at least a couple more months, as her attorneys respond to prosecutors' objections to her request.
A young mother was shot and killed Thursday night while sitting in a car in south suburban Dolton, and a man who was in the car with her also was wounded.
The fatal shooting happened at 10:25 p.m. the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A 17-year-old boy was in the 3100 block of West 41st Place when a white SUV drove by and someone inside fired shots.
Officers saw a vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, drive through a stop sign in the 3200 block of South Claremont Avenue about 10:30 p.m., police said. The officers tried to pull the vehicle over, and a chase ensued.
At 8:30 p.m., the man was walking in the 300 block of Dupage Street in Elgin when someone confronted him, hit him in the head with a gun and then shot him in the arm, Elgin police said.
Six people accused of abducting and torturing two University of Rochester students from suburban Chicago until a SWAT team stormed in have been charged in a 32-count indictment that adds charges of sexual assault and weapons counts.
The male, whose age was not immediately known, was in a vehicle on southbound I-94 near 75th Street at 12:10 a.m. when he suffered a graze wound to the shoulder, according to Illinois State Police.
A 19-year-old man was walking with friends about 11:30 p.m. in the 4000 block of South Albany Avenue when a red car pulled up to them, according to Chicago Police. He and his friends began to run away, but someone inside the car got out and shot him in the shoulder and buttocks.
Police responded about 11:30 p.m. to the 9300 block of South LaSalle Street, where they found 31-year-old Erskin Palm on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police were responding to a domestic disturbance at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday in the 600 block of North Christiana Avenue, when one male ran away from police into a first-floor apartment, according to Chicago Police. He refused to exit, and SWAT teams were called to respond.
The 18-year-old was walking about 8:30 p.m. in the 2300 block of South Trumbull Avenue when someone in a dark-colored SUV started yelling "gang slogans" at him, police said. That person exited the car and shot the man in both legs.
A man and woman were in a parking lot in the 500 block of South Kostner Avenue about 5:52 p.m. when someone walked up and shot them as they opened fire on a nearby vehicle, police said.
