1 Critically Hurt When Car Hits Pole In Humboldt Park
One male was taken to the hospital in critical condition after the vehicle he was driving struck a light pole in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday night, police said.
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One male was taken to the hospital in critical condition after the vehicle he was driving struck a light pole in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday night, police said.
The man, 24, was in the 1300 block of North Saint Louis Avenue when he was shot in the head about 8:40 p.m.
Another young student in Chicago has been lost to gun violence; this time, it's a senior at Clemente High School on the West Side
The woman was shot in the shoulder about 7 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Pulaski Road and later died at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Police have made no arrests in either shooting as area detectives investigate.
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A man was fatally shot and another was wounded while sitting in a vehicle early Sunday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said.
Elton Johnson, 35, was walking on the sidewalk in the 1000 block of North Avers Avenue when a light colored van pulled up next to him, and two people got out and opened fire.
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Two women were hospitalized Sunday afternoon from a small fire in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Five people are in critical condition after a car crash in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to Fire Department officials.
A West Town neighborhood man became the city's first homicide victim of the New Year, which so far has seen at least ten other people wounded in separate shootings, authorities said.
Two men were charged and three pit bulls were killed during a drug bust early Saturday in Humboldt Park.
Five people were injured in a CTA bus accident in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
Three men were wounded, none seriously, in two shootings in Humboldt Park and Lawndale overnight.
Authorities are searching for a suspect who robbed a bank in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side on Friday -- two days after he allegedly held up another bank.
A 16-year-old boy was shot three times Wednesday afternoon in the Northwest Side Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Police have run into a snag in their investigation into an early-morning accident Saturday that killed one man and injured his brother.
The 36-year-old woman and 15-year-old boy were shot at 6:17 p.m. in the 1600 block of North Spaulding Avenue, police said.
A 21-year-old man playing video games with his brother in a bedroom of a Humboldt Park apartment early Saturday died after bullets came through a window, authorities said.
At least eight people were wounded in shootings in Chicago from Friday night through early Saturday.
Five people--including two teenagers--were wounded in shootings from Tuesday night into early Wednesday.
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Two Chicago Police officers were in the hospital early Friday, after their squad car crashed in the middle of a chase through the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
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