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In the robberies, two men dressed in all black with hats or ski masks have walked into the stores, shown a handgun and demanded cash from the register and employees' wallets, according to a business alert from Austin District detectives.
In the most recent shooting, a man was seriously wounded in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
After a van smashed through the front of a West Side clothing store early Wednesday, 20 people swarmed inside, stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer jeans in less than three minutes.
The man was in a second-floor bedroom inside his home in the 2100 block of West Garfield Boulevard, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, when shots were fired outside around 10:50 p.m.
A man who is suspected in two other bank robberies struck again in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
A 19-year-old man told police he was in the 2200 block of North Nagle Avenue about 4:45 p.m. when a white SUV stopped and a passenger in the back seat fired shots. About the same time, an 18-year-old man was standing in the 1600 block of North Merrimac Avenue when someone opened fire from across the street.
The most recent fatal shooting in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side left one man dead and another wounded early Saturday.
Two men were found shot to death in an SUV Friday night in Gary.
A 16-year-old boy was shot Saturday night in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
Two women were shot Saturday afternoon in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
Two people were shot Saturday afternoon in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A Chicago man has been charged in connection with a fatal shooting in Hyde Park Friday night.
Three men were killed and at least 11 other people have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening.
One man was killed and another was wounded early Saturday in an Ashburn neighborhood shooting on the Southwest Side, police said.
A man was shot early Saturday while driving on I-57 on the South Side.
A man free on bond after being charged with robbing an elderly man in west suburban Riverside in August was arrested last weekend and charged with another robbery in Chicago.
Chicago Police have released surveillance video and are asking for the public's help in finding two males wanted in connection with a shooting that left one man dead and a teenager critically wounded Labor Day weekend in the South Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Shortly after 3 a.m., two masked men walked into Kevin's Hamburger Heaven, a 24-hour diner at the corner of Pershing Road and Wallace Street, and announced a robbery.
Two suspects were taken into custody Thursday afternoon after they sped away from Chicago Police officers attempting to question them in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
An Arlington Heights man was being held on $1 million bail in Wisconsin, charged with killing his estranged wife with a hatchet, after she had fled to Mount Pleasant to stay with friends who offered her shelter from her husband. The murder brings to mind the story of another woman who was kidnapped in Racine County in 2004.
An Arlington Heights woman was slain in southern Wisconsin on Wednesday night, and her estranged husband has been taken into custody.
The robbery happened at the TCF Bank branch at 17117 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park at 4:37 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the FBI.
Julio Avila, 21, and Eduardo Castro, 18, were each charged Tuesday with a count of aggravated battery with a firearm.
One woman was killed and two other people were wounded in a shooting on the South Side Wednesday.
Residents of Gary's Miller neighborhood are on edge after a spike in home burglaries. Police say there have been 15 burglaries and one home invasion in the community between October and November.
