Teen Shot In Englewood
He was standing behind a vacant house about 6:30 p.m. in the 5500 block of South Emerald Avenue when a male in a black hoodie came through the gangway and shot the teen in the left foot, according to Chicago Police.
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He was standing behind a vacant house about 6:30 p.m. in the 5500 block of South Emerald Avenue when a male in a black hoodie came through the gangway and shot the teen in the left foot, according to Chicago Police.
Cook County sheriff's police are warning northwest suburban residents about a string of "ruse" burglaries last month.
Most recently, a 30-year-old man was shot in the Hhumboldt Park neighborhood. The man was walking around 8:15 p.m. in the 1200 block of North Maplewood Avenue when an unknown male walked up to him and shot him in the left leg, according to Chicago Police.
The woman walked into the branch at 3636 W. 26th St. at 4:16 p.m. and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police and the FBI.
In both incidents, seven to eight burglars made forcible entry to the clothing stores and removed a large quantity of merchandise, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
A Chicago Police commander is expected to stand trial Tuesday over allegations that he jammed a gun down a suspect's mouth and held a Taser to the man's groin, at a time when city officials are facing criticism for their handling of the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Police said Nicholas Kollias, of Northbrook, Illinois, and Ani Okeke Ewo, of Aurora, Illinois, were abducted and held hostage, and one suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. Police said they were targeted by their assailants. They did not identify which student was shot or any other injuries either student may have suffered.
The elderly man said he had just cashed the $5,000 check at Grand Victoria Casino, 250 S. Grove Ave., and was playing the slots when 34-year-old Sean Sheppard walked up to him and struck up a conversation, according to Elgin police.
Willie Carter, 28, was charged with two counts each of criminal confinement, battery causing serious bodily injury, residential entry, theft and domestic battery, according to a statement from the Gary Police Department.
The man walked into the branch at 6612 W. North Ave. at 1:36 p.m. and handed the teller a note announcing a robbery, according to the FBI and Chicago Police.
Aurora police have released surveillance photographs of three suspects in an armed robbery of a social club on Sunday that left one man dead.
The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened Sunday morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. Brandon Miles, 29, was in the driver's seat of a car when someone opened fire from another dark-colored car about 6:15 a.m. in the 1000 block of West 50th Street.
Two inmates who escaped Sunday from a minimum security prison in downstate Pope County have been captured.
Shortly after 10 p.m., the security guard saw a 30-year-old man threatening a woman with a brick in the 2300 block of West Jackson Boulevard, according to Chicago police.
Two missing New York college students have been found safe after police say they were abducted and held hostage.
Bradley I. Morris, a 19-year-old man from the 1000 block of Palmer Street in Downers Grove, was arrested in Chicago Saturday with help from a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force, according to Darien police.
Three people were killed and at least 19 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since late Friday afternoon, police said.
An alleged member of the Outfit's Cicero Street Crew, who was already accused once this year of threatening a government witness, made a second threat by email against a former business partner from jail, the feds claim.
Judge Mary Margaret Brosnahan said Thursday that David Biro's "discretionary" life sentence for the intentional homicide of an unborn child was not covered by a 2014 state Supreme Court ruling granting new sentencing hearings to people sentenced to life in prison for murders committed when they were under 18.
In three robberies, suspects "used force and threat of force" to take cell phones, wallets and money from drivers, according to a community alert from Chicago Police. In one incident, the robbers were armed with a knife.
About noon, a 61-year-old man was inside an establishment in the 6800 block of South Ashland Avenue when two men with guns walked in and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police. At least one of them opened fire, hitting the 61-year-old in the ankle, police said.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired at 2:50 p.m. in the 5400 block of West Madison Street found a 36-year-old man on the ground with a gunshot wound to the back, according to Chicago Police.
At 12:50 p.m., the 33-year-old was shot in the right leg by someone he was fighting with in the 100 block of South Central Avenue, according to Chicago Police.
Chicago police have launched an investigation of a video that appears to show a child of about 4 or 5 smoking marijuana.
It was a "cold and callous murder that was stifling and stunning," Cook County Judge Charles Burns said Wednesday before sentencing Raymond Harris to life in prison without parole.
