Police Warn Of String Of Armed Robberies Overnight
Chicago police are warning people around North Center, University Village, Wicker Park, West Town to be on guard, after a string of overnight robberies targeting people sitting in their cars.
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Chicago police are warning people around North Center, University Village, Wicker Park, West Town to be on guard, after a string of overnight robberies targeting people sitting in their cars.
A 72-year-old woman was carjacked at gunpoint Thursday night just steps from her senior living home in Logan Square.
A series of rapid-fire crimes early Thursday struck a community already grappling with a spike in crime as it is.
Three robberies were reported in River North early Thursday morning.
The boy was charged with one felony count each of aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and possession of a controlled substance.
Authorities are asking the public's help in identifying a man who hit a person in the back of the head at the Argyle CTA Red Line Station last month.
Police said a 54-year-old man was on Lake Street near Michigan and Wabash around 12:30 a.m., when two men came up to him, punched him in the face, and knocked him over.
The impact broke the woman's pelvis, and left her with head trauma.
Two people were shot in broad daylight in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday morning.
A man lost his vehicle to an armed carjacker in Chicago's West Town neighborhood in broad daylight Saturday morning.
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A 17-year-old charged with murder in the death of Yvonne Ruzich, 70, who was killed in a carjacking attempt in Chicago's Hegewisch neighborhood, is being held without bond.
A man was hospitalized after hie was shot early Saturday morning on Chicago's Northwest Side.
Most of Ruzich's family and friends were together celebrating her life as they got word of the arrest.
"Once again, a 70-year-old victim still working, going to work at 4:30 in the morning, and life tragically ended just for trying to get a piece of property, a car," Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said.
Police in Kankakee believe an internal gang conflict sparked a shootout that left two men dead and a third wounded outside the county courthouse Thursday morning.
An Evanston man has died after he and another man were shot on the Eisenhower Expressway earlier this week.
"Last fall we had a spike in vehicle hijackings that carried over into the next year, into this year. So we want to try to anticipate some of that maybe happening again this year," Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said.
"He still has a long road ahead, but we are grateful for the progress he is making," Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said.
The driver of the vehicle told police the shooting happened in the inbound lanes between California and Damen avenues.
Police said the victims were in a parking lot in the 1600 block of East 87th Place around 9:10 p.m., when two gunmen fired shots from a nearby alley.
Police said the victims were driving west in the 3000 block of West 65th Street shortly before 7 p.m., when someone shot both of them.
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A 29-year-old man accused of shooting the victims remains in custody. No charges were filed as of Monday.
Police pursued suspects wanted in an armed 7-Eleven robbery in Cicero, Illinois, on Tuesday morning.
The deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis has reignited questions about the federal use of force in Chicago in recent months.
Funding for federal immigration enforcement was one of the first topics the Democratic frontrunners for U.S. Senate in Illinois discussed at a debate Monday night.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is facing internal scrutiny after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, multiple sources told CBS News, but she is expected to keep her job.
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.
A man was shot early Sunday when he confronted two people trying to break into a car in the north suburban Morton Grove.
A 36-year-old woman and a 4-year-old boy were killed in a homicide in Joliet, Illinois, on Sunday morning, according to police.
