FBI: 'Bandage Bandit' Attempted Sixth Bank Robbery On Friday
A man suspected in five Chicago bank robberies tried to rob a sixth bank in the Lake View neighborhood on Friday, the FBI said.
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A man suspected in five Chicago bank robberies tried to rob a sixth bank in the Lake View neighborhood on Friday, the FBI said.
Police officers were keeping a close eye on a south suburban junior high school, after learning of a Facebook threat targeting students.
An autopsy is pending further studies for a 57-year-old man found dead shortly after he allegedly stabbed two people late Thursday in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The ambulance, operated by the Chicago Fire Department, was shot about 5:40 p.m. in the 5600 block of South Bishop, according to fire department spokesman Will Knight. The bullet shattered the driver's-side window, and a large caliber slug was found in the cab portion of the ambulance.
A 21-year-old west suburban man died late Saturday after being shot near his Northlake home.
A man and a teenage boy were seriously injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side.
A man was killed and at least 39 other people — including an 81-year-old woman — were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday afternoon and early Sunday.
A man was found shot to death in the University Village neighborhood early Saturday.
An 81-year-old great-grandmother was shot Friday night just minutes after viewing the body of her recently deceased daughter at a South Side funeral home, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Sarie Keller's home is adjacent to the Bluelight, at 3251 N. Western Ave. She said, over the last several years, problems have escalated. The city has deemed the bar problematic, and has entered into a plan of operation with the bar, but Keller said the bar hasn't complied with any of the city's demands.
Andres Gamez, 33, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault of a family member under 18 and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a victim under 5 years old, according to the McHenry County sheriff's office.
A 57-year-old man was found dead shortly after he stabbed two people following a verbal altercation late Thursday in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
Jawanza Brown, 21, and two 17-year-old boys approached a 32-year-old man entering his 2002 Chevrolet Malibu at 11:08 p.m. in the 1800 block of North Clybourn Avenue, police said. They implied they had a weapon, took the car and drove off.
The shooting–which may have been gang-related–happened about 7:25 p.m. in the 6400 block of South Damen Avenue, according to preliminary information from police.
Joi Taylor, 32, an employee of Proviso West High School in Hillside, is charged with criminal sexual assault in a position of authority, and indecent solicitation of a child, according to Hillside police.
The title of Spike Lee's new movie might not sit well with some, but the filmmaker was not backing down from calling his upcoming film on Chicago's gun violence "Chiraq," as he defended his controversial work on Thursday.
Late Wednesday night, one man was killed and another man was injured in a shooting outside of a Logan Square neighborhood store on the Northwest Side, police said.
Two teenagers were killed and a third was critically wounded in a shooting in the Roseland neighborhood Wednesday night. For the mother of one of the victims, it was the second son she has lost to gun violence in less than a year.
Shots rang out in the direction of officers conducting an investigation in the 2200 block of North Keystone about 1:20 a.m., police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.
Two men, ages 19 and 33, got into a fight with two other males about 11:10 p.m. in the parking lot of FoodSmart Urban Market, 2901 W. Armitage Ave., when one male pulled out a gun and fired shots, police said.
Two U.S. Postal Service employees are facing federal charges of stealing narcotics from packages at a mail center at O'Hare International Airport.
The FBI has increased the reward to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a serial bank robber dubbed the "Bandage Bandit," after he struck for the fifth time Saturday.
According to a CPS inspector general's report, this is part of a larger theft scheme that is connected to seven people who have worked for Chicago Public Schools.
Euripides "Caca" Caguana is set to be sentenced Sept. 16 after a federal jury found him guilty late Tuesday on all four murder-for-hire counts he's faced since his arrest in October 2013, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
A Logan Square teenager who first made headlines in 2012 when he designed the winning city sticker, only to have it pulled over concerns it contained gang signs, was arrested Tuesday for driving a stolen van.
