Shots Fired At Police During Foot Chase In West Garfield Park
A gunman fired shots at Chicago police officers Friday afternoon during a foot chase in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
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A gunman fired shots at Chicago police officers Friday afternoon during a foot chase in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Police said the boy was shot in the head inside a home in the 9300 block of South Wallace Street around 7:10 p.m.
Dementhrice Boykin has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated arson.
A man was stabbed and critically injured Thursday afternoon, after confronting a woman for not wearing a mask inside a convenience store in the West Town neighborhood.
Police a vehicle was damaged by gunfire on the inbound Dan Ryan near 71st Street shortly before 4 p.m., but no injuries were reported.
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"These charges are the beginning, we hope, of bringing some measure of closure to the grieving family of these two innocent little girls who were sitting in a parked car when they were struck by gunfire," CPD Supt. David Brown said.
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At least 44 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, and at least three of those people died.
A person was killed and four others wounded after a shooting in Wicker Park early Sunday, police said.
A person is in stable condition after being shot on the Eisenhower Expressway early Sunday, authorities said.
A 45-year-old man died after he was shot in Little Village Saturday evening, police said.
Police said the victims were in the 3500 block of West 12th Place shortly before 8 p.m., when someone pulled up in a vehicle and started shooting.
Harvey spokeswoman Giavonni Nickson said the off-duty officer was near 154th and Wood streets on his way to work around 6:10 p.m., when someone started shooting at him.
Illinois State Police said it investigated a shooting in the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan near 83rd that happened around midnight.
Preckwinkle said the incident happened in the city of Chicago, so it's a Chicago Police matter, and she didn't want to jeopardize the investigation.
Chicago Fire Department officials said a toddler and a man were shot, and described their conditions as "stable."
Demarcus Denwiddie is charged with six counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, and three counts of aggravated battery, according to the Grundy County Sheriff's office.
"What really has me upset is that this happened last month, and no one was notified, and no one was told," Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison said.
A suspect was in custody Thursday night, after a Grundy County Sheriff's deputy was shot during a traffic stop in the village of Mazon.
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The victim in Morton Grove said he now fears for his family's lives after he was held at gunpoint, pistol-whipped, and shot in the thigh.
The burglaries occurred between Jan 12 and 24 during the morning hours across eight neighborhoods, including Brighton Park and Uptown.
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CPD said in each of the incidents, four to seven suspects gained entry into businesses by breaking a glass front door or window with sledgehammers or pry bars.
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Inmates are getting the chance to learn a trade to help them find a job when they get out.
The village said it now considers the matter closed with no further discussion.
As temperatures fell below zero in Chicago on Friday, tenants of a public housing complex in the East Garfield Park neighborhood said they were freezing inside their own homes due to insufficient heat.
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Chicago police issued a warning over the weekend about burglars targeting homes on Chicago's South Side.
A woman was charged with attempted murder this past weekend, nearly a year after investigators said she shot another woman on Chicago's Northwest Side.
Two men were hospitalized early Monday after they were shot while driving in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood.
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