Girl, 12, dies three days after being shot in the head on the way home from her birthday party
"This was heinous, reckless, senseless, and the gangs involved – and you know who you are – we're coming after you," Police Supt. David Brown said.
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"This was heinous, reckless, senseless, and the gangs involved – and you know who you are – we're coming after you," Police Supt. David Brown said.
"This is a horrendous crime, and we stand here united to say that we will not allow such atrocities to happen in Gage Park, or in any community here in this great city," Police Supt. David Brown said.
Police said Jonathan Mejia is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
A man has been charged after a man was killed and six others were hurt in a mass shooting at a bar in Auburn Gresham in August.
A man has been charged in the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old boy in West Town.
The family of a 15-year-old boy gathered to call for an end to gun violence Tuesday, three days after he was murdered.
Five years ago Sunday, a gruesome murder shook the town of Delphi, Indiana. The mystery remains unsolved.
Relatives of a beloved dance teacher say they feel like they are finally getting justice -- several months after his murder.
A 16-year-boy was on electronic monitoring when he carjacked a rideshare driver at gunpoint, and then drove the car several miles before he pulled up to 15-year-old Michael Brown and shot and killed him in the Douglas community this week, prosecutors said.
Jermaine Myles died seven years after he was shot and paralyzed. At the time, his assailant went to prison for the shooting. But the victim died, and his family says that now makes it murder.
Nancy Rish has been released from prison after her sentence was reduced in the high-profile murder of a businessman nearly 35 years ago in Kankakee.
Police said Jaran Hughes was arrested Tuesday in Racine, Wisconsin, after he was identified as the man who fired the shot that killed Marcell as the boy was sitting on a bed in Englewood on Jan. 2.
Former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson's new attorney on Monday asked for more time to prepare for a hearing seeking to vacate his 2012 conviction in the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
A Will County judge says he found a "gist of a constitutional" claim in Peterson's hand-written petition to vacate his conviction.
Nancy Rish has maintained her innocence in a high-profile murder nearly 35 years ago in Kankakee, and now she is about to get out of prison.
Less than three and a half years after being taken into custody for the murder of Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke is about to be a free man.
At the accused gunman's bond hearing on Thursday, Cook County prosecutors said 16-year-old Emilio Corripio teen had committed three aggravated carjackings in the span of just 5 months, and was on "intensive probation" at the time of the murder.
The CBS 2 Investigators have learned from law enforcement sources – at the time the 16-year-old was arrested for killing Melissa Ortega, he was on probation for a 2021 aggravated carjacking. And we're told this juvenile has also been arrested on a gun charge.
A news conference on charges in the shooting death of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega was also a rare appearance in the same room for Mayor Lightfoot, police Supt. David Brown, and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx.
Former Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem was sentenced to 53 years in prison Tuesday for what prosecutors called the thrill killing of his boyfriend in 2017.
His mother Mamie Till-Mobley will also be awarded the medal, posthumously.
Prosecutors now say Damari Perry, the 6-year-old boy who was found dead in Gary, Indiana, this weekend, died because he was being "punished."
The mother and two siblings of Damari Perry, 6, who was found dead late Friday night have been charged in his death.
A Governors State University student was gunned down in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood this week.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services caseworker Deidre Silas was stabbed to death Tuesday afternoon while conducting a home visit in downstate Sangamon County.
