1 Dead, 2 Injured In Far South Side Shooting
Police were searching Friday morning for the shooter who killed one man was killed wounded two others on the city's Far South Side.
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Police were searching Friday morning for the shooter who killed one man was killed wounded two others on the city's Far South Side.
A man who was alleged to have fired a gun on a Bridgeport neighborhood street late Saturday was apprehended by police not long afterward, but not before he led police on a pursuit that stretched more than 16 miles south, ending after he abandoned his car in the Far South Side Altgeld Gardens area.
A 41-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head late Saturday on the Far South Side.
At least four people were killed and 19 others wounded in separate shootings throughout the city that took place from late Friday to Saturday night.
Two men were shot Saturday on the Far South Side.
A 56-year-old man died Tuesday afternoon when the car he was driving struck another vehicle head-on in the Far South Side Calumet Heights neighborhood.
A woman and teenage boy were wounded in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood Wednesday evening on the Far South Side.
The 41-year-old officer was injured by a bullet that bounced off his protective vest Friday as police responded to a call in the Fernwood neighborhood.
Students at a therapeutic day school on the city's Far South Sire return to class Friday morning, one day after one of their classmates was stabbed to death in an attack at the school.
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