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Bail was set at $5 million Tuesday for a Minooka man charged with stabbing a Chicago man to death early Sunday after they got into an argument at a party in southwest suburban Evergreen Park.
Arnold Dearies, 26, was in the 7100 block of South Green shortly before 7 p.m. when a white car drove past and someone inside opened fire.
Around 4 a.m. Saturday, police were called to a condo in the 1100 block of Miller Lane in Buffalo Grove, after a woman woke up to find a strange man straddling her on her bed. She immediately began fighting him off, and he ran out of the condo through an open patio door.
The man, 20, was shot shortly after 2 a.m. near 116th Street and Stewart Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines said. Witnesses told police they heard five or six shots and saw two males running away from the scene of the shooting.
Bolingbrook police said they were called to First Midwest Bank, 450 N. Bolingbrook Dr., around noon after a man entered the bank, wearing a mask, and announced a robbery. A female teller in her 20s was shot in the arm during the robbery.
Police were called to Rain Ultra Club, 1500 E. 83rd Av., as the club was closing at 3 a.m., to assist with a crowd of several hundred people loitering in the parking lot. As officers were trying to disperse the crowd, shots were fired.
A southwest suburban man was beaten to death with baseball bats Sunday morning after confronting a group of teens for stealing his son's skateboard several days earlier.
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the head about 8:30 p.m. in the 5900 block of South Justine Street on Sunday. The boy, of the 1000 block of West 78th Street, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A violent attacker in the south suburbs has struck again. A fourth woman has been mugged in south suburban Midlothian, by a masked man who has blindsided women walking home late at night.
A South Side man charged in connection with a fatal shooting earlier this month in the South Shore neighborhood has been ordered held without bond.
Three brazen attacks in Midlothian have put many in the southwest suburb on edge. In the past three weeks, two women and a 17-year-old girl have been beaten and robbed by a masked man.
Two of the men, who were shot in an alley behind 22nd Street and Hervey Avenue in North Chicago about 10:30 a.m., were being treated for minor wounds at Vista East Medical Center in Waukegan, officials said. A third victim was in stable condition at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.
The fatal shooting happened in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, where a man was found lying on a sidewalk about 7:35 a.m.
Two would-be thieves were behind bars Thursday morning, after an off-duty Chicago police officer fired shots at them in the parking lot of a Jewel grocery store in the Oriole Park neighborhood.
A teenage boy shot in a drive-by attack late Tuesday in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side is in custody facing potential charges, police said.
A vandal broke into Soldier Field, scaling the colonnade stairs and setting a fire in an executive suite, just a week before the Bears' first preseason game of the season Friday night.
After a listening session about combating street violence, the mayor and his police superintendent disclose that more arrests will be coming, reports WBBM's John Cody.
Police were called to Hearts at 1115 N. North Branch St. around 3:40 a.m., and when officers arrived, they found two men in their 30s who had been shot in the parking lot. Two other victims later turned up at hospitals.
About 4 p.m. Tuesday, 29-year-old Kashif Tillis was in a vehicle in the 7200 block of South Morgan Street when a black coupe pulled up and someone inside opened fire, striking him several times.
olice want to know who killed an army veteran at point blank range Monday night on the South Side.
A man was found shot to death in a vehicle in the South Side Englewood neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The most recent fatal shooting happened about 9 p.m. in the in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. A 39-year-old man was riding a bicycle about 9 p.m. in the 7600 block of South Hoyne when a red vehicle pulled up next to him and someone exited the vehicle and fired shots.
The most recent fatal shooting happened about 9 p.m. Sunday in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side.
A manager declined to comment, but police said a man was in the store Sunday and took off with merchandise without paying. An initial report said a piece of diamond jewelry worth several thousand dollars was stolen.
Elusive details of one of Joliet's most gruesome double homicides could finally be revealed this week when one of four people arrested in the case is set to go on trial.
