Part of LaSalle Closed For Falling Glass
Glass fell from an eighth-story window in Chicago's River North neighborhood Thursday afternoon, causing police to close LaSalle Street between Superior Street and Chestnut Avenue.
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Glass fell from an eighth-story window in Chicago's River North neighborhood Thursday afternoon, causing police to close LaSalle Street between Superior Street and Chestnut Avenue.
It would amount to a sales tax on trading stocks.
The LaSalle Street Bridge will be closed to daytime traffic for about one week starting Monday to replace a center lock that has been out of repair since last year.
The woman was struck by a turning truck in the 1100 block of North LaSalle Street at 11:55 a.m., according to Chicago Police.
Police responded about 11:30 p.m. to the 9300 block of South LaSalle Street, where they found 31-year-old Erskin Palm on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Most recently, a 23-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk in the 12700 block of South Parnell Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. when a man got out of a dark colored car and fired shots, police said.
Commissioner John Fritchey said he was driving north on LaSalle Street on Monday, when he noticed a man on an old bike, pulling the tire off another bike.
Early Sunday, officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 11700 block of South LaSalle Street found the 31-year-old man inside a car parked in an alley, police said.
The two were in a Dodge Stratus traveling at "a high rate of speed" when the car hit a hydrant in the 5500 block of South LaSalle Street, police said.
The teens were wounded on Dec. 22 near 95th and La Salle after Chicago Police officers curbed a stolen car packed with joyriders, the department said in a statement after the incident.
Beginning early Wednesday, crews will shift all traffic on eastbound Washington into two lanes along the north side of the street.
Both scaffolding and other items had fallen to the street at 3:05 a.m. from 440 S. LaSalle St., according to police and fire officials.
Burglars used a hammer to smash through the front door of a high-end men's fashion retailer in the Loop early Thursday, the second time the store has been robbed in two months.
Roy Word, 51, was pulled from the river in the 200 block of North LaSalle after authorities were notified he had jumped in about 7:45 a.m.
The Chicago Department of Transportation said the bridge will be closed to all traffic from 6 a.m. Wednesday through the afternoon of Aug. 23.
Four days after he was shot in the head by a disgruntled colleague, a Loop executive remained in critical condition on Monday, but a family spokesperson said he was showing some improvement.
A Loop executive remained in critical condition Friday morning, after an apparently disgruntled colleague shot him in the head Thursday over a recent demotion.
The CEO of a small technology firm in the Loop was critically wounded Thursday morning, when a disgruntled executive shot him in the head and stomach at the company's office in the heart of the financial district. The gunman then took his own life.
Dayvon Bennett, 19, faces one count of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, all felonies, in connection with the May 29 shooting that happened in the 5700 block of South LaSalle Street.
A South Side man has been charged with shooting a south suburban man to death and wounding two others almost two months ago in the Englewood neighborhood.
Tucked away inside the Bank of America Building in the Loop financial district is a place to let off a little steam and get a little exercise at the same time.
The man walked into a Chase Bank branch at 10 S. Dearborn St. at 8:42 a.m., implied he had a weapon and presented the teller with a note demanding cash. Ten minutes later, a man matching the robber's description held up the Citibank branch at 11 S. LaSalle St.
A 29-year-old woman driving a minivan west on 43rd Street ran a red light and smashed into a sedan carrying seven people heading north on LaSalle Street around 1:30 a.m.
Authorities are looking for a man who robbed a Loop bank on Wednesday afternoon.
A Bellwood man has been arrested as the second gunman in a fatal shooting in the Roseland neighborhood, which prosecutors have said was prompted by a stolen gun.
