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About 10:15 p.m. on Oct. 2, four teens riding 10-speed bicycles rode up to a person in the 3200 block of North Campbell Avenue and demanded their cell phone, according to a community alert from Town Hall District detectives.
Chicago Police have issued a community alert about a string of armed robberies on the North Side, including several near Wrigley Field.
Authorities are searching for a man who robbed a West Ridge credit union Thursday afternoon on the North Side.
Around 5:15 a.m., police responded to a call at Community First Medical Center, 5645 W. Addison St. While the officers were inside the hospital, someone broke into their squad car, and stole a department-issued rifle.
The 31-year-old man was walking in the 6000 block of South Aberdeen when someone fired at him from a passing gray vehicle about 7:30 a.m., according to police. He was shot four times and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
A suburban Chicago man has been acquitted of attempted murder and aggravated battery for allegedly spraying a female acquaintance with an accelerant and setting her afire.
Shortly after 1 p.m., officers responding to a report of a person shot found 31-year-old Marlon Goodwin shot several times in the 700 block of South 4th Avenue, according to Maywood police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
About 1:08 a.m., officer for the 28-year-old man lying on the ground in the 8300 block of South Evans Avenue, police said. He had been shot in the head and was dead at the scene.
Henry R. Hayes was standing outside in the 7700 block of South Indiana Avenue at 5:20 p.m. when someone walked up and shot him several times in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
A Humboldt Park man was convicted Wednesday of shooting two motorists to death and robbing two others during a frenetic crime spree on the West Side.
Marcus Floyd, 24, is the third and final person to be tried for Thomas Wortham IV's murder during a failed armed robbery in 2010.
About 11 p.m., the 18-year-old man and 16-year-old boy were on a sidewalk in the 9700 block of South Peoria Street when someone opened fire from an SUV, according to Chicago Police.
About 12:20 a.m., he got into an argument with the mother of his child in the 1500 block of South Avers Avenue when another male pulled out a gun and shot him once in the right leg, according to Chicago Police.
A Elwood gun dealer was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for selling nearly a dozen firearms to buyers who were not legally allowed to purchase the weapons.
After years of partially unreported violent crime statistics in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, Chicago's numerical quirks have finally been hammered out...
DNA tests on the remains of a toddler found last month in the Garfield Park Lagoon have not yet led to an identity, but they have ruled out one possibility.
The 19-year-old man was a passenger in a vehicle in the 12200 block of South Princeton Avenue at 1:29 a.m. when a gray vehicle pulled up beside it and someone inside fired shots at him, police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines said.
In three incidents, the burglars entered or attempted to enter a home through a window that was broken by a thrown object, according to a community alert from Chicago Police. During two of the burglaries, small electronics and clothing items were taken.
The man was killed and a woman was injured in a Chatham neighborhood shooting on the South Side. About 8:30 p.m., the pair was sitting in a vehicle in the 8200 block of South Lafayette when another vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
A man wanted for a murder in Kenosha County has been taken into custody in northern Illinois, according to the Kenosha County Sheriff's office.
Michael Jones, 62, has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of aggravated sexual assault in the 1985 death of Glenbard South High School student Kristina Wesselman.
Two men were walking in the 200 block of East 51st Street at 8:50 a.m. when numerous shots were fired from a passing black car, according to Chicago Police.
Tram Duong Ngoc Nguyen, of the 1500 block of West Wilson Avenue, was charged with a criminal sexual assault, a Class 1 felony, according to a statement from the Niles Police Department.
The 26-year-old man was shot in the collarbone about 5:50 p.m. in the 6400 block of South Parnell Avenue, according to Chicago Police.
About 9:10 p.m., the 19-year-old was standing in the street with a group of males in the 6600 block of South Oakley Avenue when someone shot him in the left leg, police said.
