Evanston Cops Seek Witnesses To Drive-By Shooting
Police in north suburban Evanston were asking for help tracking down the shooter or shooters involved in a drive-by that left two young men wounded over the weekend.
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Police in north suburban Evanston were asking for help tracking down the shooter or shooters involved in a drive-by that left two young men wounded over the weekend.
Bond was denied for a 28-year-old man facing attempted murder charges for a drive-by shooting that left three men injured–one of them critically–last year in the South Chicago neighborhood.
Shortly before 3 a.m., a 24-year-old man was walking in the 2700 block of West Bloomingdale Avenue when a light-colored vehicle pulled up and someone with a gun got out and shot him in the armpit, police said.
The 27-year-old was sitting in the driver's seat of a vehicle in the 4700 block of North Broadway at 2:43 p.m. when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside shot the man in the chest, arm and leg, police said.
A majority of those voters were pessimistic about the city's economy as they hit their polling places.
A Far South Side teen was shot to death early Monday at a party in south suburban Calumet City.
The boy and another 8-year-old child were playing with a gun inside a home near 13th Street and Lawndale Avenue around 10:45 a.m., when the gun went off, police said.
Two children were safely removed from a home on the Northwest Side on Tuesday, after a man armed with a gun kicked his wife out of their home, and barricaded himself inside with the kids.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, whose powerful Sinaloa cartel supplies the majority of the cocaine and heroin that fuels much of the Second City's gun violence, was nabbed in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan without a single shot being fired. Or was he?
Two Dekalb County residents were charged with stealing jewelry from a home while a party was going on over the weekend in northwest suburban Elgin.
A man suspected of robbing a Near West Side bank last week held up another bank branch Monday, officials said.
About 12:45 a.m., police responded to a call of shots fired in the 500 block of Concord Court and found a man shot in the face, Chicago Heights police said.
Colorado's "green rush" has been nothing but a bust for Ryan Bailey. For the second time in about five years, Bailey is behind bars for allegedly opening a hefty package of marijuana that was shipped from Colorado to Chicago through the United Parcel Service.
Relatives of a 17-year-old boy fatally shot by a Zion police officer called for justice for Justus Howell on Sunday. Family members said he was shot twice in the back, which authorities confirmed.
The most recent fatality happened Saturday afternoon in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. Milon L. Carvis, 42, was standing on the sidewalk about 4:15 p.m. with several other adults in the 7800 block of South Seeley when a male walked up and fired shots.
A 42-year-old man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in the West Englewood neighborhood Saturday, according to Police News Affairs.
Two men were stabbed in a fight at the Congress Plaza Hotel early Saturday.
Four people were killed and at least 15 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago throughout the weekend.
Officers responding to a call of a suspicious person about 9 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Stony Island found escapee Kamron T. Taylor, who led them on a brief foot chase, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
Authorities have increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of a convicted killer who escaped from a Kankakee jail earlier this week.
The most recent homicide happened about 8:30 p.m. in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. A 36-year-old man was standing in the 100 bock of East 69th Street, when at least one person walked up and shot him in the back, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he later was pronounced dead.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired at the Shell at 625 E. Division St. in Coal City at 8:10 p.m., according to a statement from Coal City police. The victim, a male of unknown age, was found bleeding with multiple gunshot wounds in a silver Dodge Ram.
Mayoral challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia on Wednesday sought to use residents' unease about the city's latest crime statistics to slow Mayor Rahm Emanuel's momentum ahead of next week's runoff election.
Robert Armstead, 29, was shot Wednesday at his home in the 4400 block of Connecticut Street, according to the Lake County (Ind.) coroner's office.
