Des Plaines Man Charged With Attacking CTA Train Operator
Braulio Portes, 26, was charged with one felony count of aggravated battery to a transit employee, Chicago Police announced late Monday.
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Braulio Portes, 26, was charged with one felony count of aggravated battery to a transit employee, Chicago Police announced late Monday.
Deon Gillespie, 34, of the 400 block of East Oakwood Boulevard, faces two counts of robbery armed with a firearm and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, all felonies, according to Chicago Police.
Police were warning residents in the Logan Square neighborhood of two recent robberies, including one in which they kidnapped the victim.
The 24-year-old woman was walking in the 6400 block of South Honore Street about 8:40 p.m. when she heard shots and felt pain, police said.
Branden M. Napolitan, 26, faces counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery and theft for the attack at the apartment he shared with 53-year-old Daryl K. Fox, according to Woodstock police and the McHenry County coroner's office.
CBS 2 Chief correspondent Jay Levine says an issue first raised by Mayor Emanuel about camera shy cops has spread from city hall to city streets and all the way to the White House.
Two tourists who were robbed at Oak Street Beach over the weekend were speaking out about their experience, after fighting back and helping police catch one of the muggers.
Most recently, a man was shot to death early Monday in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Rashad Stokes, 29, was standing on the sidewalk in the 4800 block of West Madison about 1:30 a.m. when a male walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
A DePaul University sophomore was charged with sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman with developmental disabilities. Joseph Annel, 19, of the 1200 block of West Fullerton Avenue, was charged with criminal sexual assault and appeared in court Sunday.
Renard Winfield, 44, was convicted in July 1998 of six counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault in Cook County and had been held at the Pontiac Correctional Center, about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
An 89-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in a home in Washington Park early Monday, when firefighters responded to an apartment building fire.
Rashad Stokes, 29, was standing on the sidewalk in the 4800 block of West Madison Street about 1:30 a.m. when a male walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
A 25-year-old woman planning to take a train to Pennsylvania was arrested after police found she was carrying 5.5 pounds of crack cocaine and other drugs.
Chicago police are looking for two men in connection with a stabbing and robbery near Oak Street Beach Saturday night, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
A man was shot to death in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Saturday afternoon on the South Side, police said.
Chicago Police have announced two suspects have been charged in the murders of three people last month on the city's South Side, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser.
The 28-year-old city worker had just arrived as part of a crew fixing a sewer in the 1400 block of West 85th Street. He drove up in his own private vehicle, and seconds after he parked around 8 a.m., another vehicle pulled up next to him, and someone inside opened fire.
Darwin Green said when his twin brother was kidnapped from their Broadview beeper store and then murdered, his attackers "killed not only one man, but two."
Police said a man jumped out of a vehicle at the bus stop at 36th Street and King Drive around 6:30 p.m., grabbed the girl by the neck, and tried to shove her into his car.
Most recently, a 23-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk in the 12700 block of South Parnell Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. when a man got out of a dark colored car and fired shots, police said.
The FBI's violent crime report is not a ranking — there are no winners, no losers. Mostly, these statistics are here to help individual cities track their crime over long periods of time...
Most recently, a 24-year-old man was shot while driving in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
About 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, a man walked up to the TCF Bank branch inside the Jewel-Osco store at 3531 N. Broadway and handed a teller a note demanding cash, according to Chicago Police and the FBI.
Bond was set at $100,000 for each of two men charged with robbing a woman Monday night in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side.
A Mount Prospect man charged with attempted murder after he allegedly tried to strangle his wife was ordered held on $150,000 bond, police say.
