No Bond For Alejandro Lopez, Charged With Murder In Fatal Evanston Shooting
A 19-year-old Waukegan man was charged with first-degree murder after a fatal shooting in Evanston over the weekend and was ordered held without bond in court Tuesday.
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A 19-year-old Waukegan man was charged with first-degree murder after a fatal shooting in Evanston over the weekend and was ordered held without bond in court Tuesday.
Bond was set for a man and woman accused of murdering a man in a Naperville parking lot last week, officials said.
It happened on the West Side near Chicago and Sacramento. Police said a man drove up next to Travell Miller's car, got out and shot Miller multiple times.
A 17-year-old has been charged in the murder of a man on a CTA Red Line train at the Garfield stop.
A Chicago man is the second to face murder charges after a May shooting at an Avalon Park gas station.
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.
"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.
A Lake County jury convicted 41-year-old Darren "Duke" Taylor of Hammond on Monday of two counts of murder, two counts of murder in perpetration of a robbery and two counts of robbery.
Heather Mack, the woman who murdered her Chicago socialite mother and stuffed the body in a suitcase, is being released early from an Indonesian prison.
"Why did it have to be my son? Why did it have to be Colton? And the more that I walk this journey I think maybe it was me that had to do it," Cassandra Tanner Miller said.
A beloved grandmother was carjacked and murdered in front of her own adult son in Hegewisch early Monday morning, and police have called the killers cowards.
The man accused of fatally shooting Chicago Police Officer Ella French, and critically wounding another officer over the weekend, was ordered held without bond on Tuesday.
Police said Larry Scott shot Travis Willis in the head on May 1, during a fight in West Pullman.
Anthony Lorenzi, 34, was arrested in San Diego on July 9, charged with one count of first-degree murder in the slaying of 24-year-old Gyovanny Arzuaga on June 19.
Three weeks ago, a National Guardsman was killed at the corner of Lockwood Avenue and Palmer Street in Belmont-Cragin. On Monday night, there were signs and encouragement from the family to find the shooter.
Devontay Anderson is accused of opening fire with an AK-47 pistol on 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams and her father, Jontae Adams, as they were sitting in a McDonald's drive-thru.
Anderson is accused of shooting Jaslyn and her father with an AK-47 pistol while the two were sitting in their car at a McDonald's drive-thru. A second accused gunman and the accused getaway driver were arrested and charged in April.
Frank Harris asked the victim for the time, the victim told him and continued to remove items from vehicle. That's when Harris showed a gun and demanded Keith Cooper's keys and phone.
Victor H. Ayllon, 35, of Elgin was charged by the Kane County State's Attorney with two counts of first-degree murder on Thursday after the Monday strangulation death of his wife, 33-year-old Wendy Ayllon.
A man was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after being arrested in Morris, Illinois in the murder of an 81-year-old woman on the Near North Side.
"I dropped to my knees. Shocked. The whole world changed."
A Norwood Park man charged with first degree murder in a fatal stabbing the day before in a fast food restaurant parking lot has been denied bond.
A man has been charged in federal court with carjacking and murdering a rideshare driver in Chicago earlier this year.
The FBI said he has previous convictions in Illinois, Indiana, and Florida.
The game will be made up as a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday, and the four-game series will begin Tuesday.
The tricycle was stolen from the family's back porch in Berwyn last week.
The search for the missing teen continued during the weekend before she was recovered on Sunday.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Town officials said it could be weeks before they clear all the trees, then construction materials, and after that, rebuilding can finally begin.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Etan Patz walked out of his New York City home headed for a school bus stop in May of 1979. He never made it to school and has never been found.
Illinois state and local lawmakers gathered Sunday to remember trailblazing state lawmaker Barbara Flynn Currie.
Alan Greenspan's lengthy reign at the Federal Reserve coincided with a period of stability from the mid-1980s until 2007.
Keir Starmer will step down as U.K. Prime Minister weeks after a brutal round of local elections and as he faced a challenge from within his Labour Party.
An Illinois law banning "swipe fees" on taxes and tips — already delayed twice by lawmakers — appears to be on life support after a federal judge that once permitted it issued a permanent injunction against it this week.
A new study from the Cook County Treasurer's office underlines growing concerns about the impact the Illinois megaprojects bill could have on the county's property tax base and overall fiscal health.
As thousands of Chicagoans wrap up road trips over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, gas prices in the city have reached the highest levels seen in four years.
Consumer and environmental advocates said Monday that they found overcharges buried in the most recent rate-hike request by Nicor.
One week away from Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer travel season, with gas prices remaining high, negotiations were set to resume Monday at the largest oil refinery in the Midwest.
Illinois is among the top 13 states seeing a rise in alpha-gal syndrome cases, with residents living in southern Illinois at the highest risk, according to a 2025 study.
After Bruce Willis was diagnosed with dementia, his wife Emma Heming Willis found a new purpose as a health advocate.
The North Shore suburb of Wilmette this week became the latest Chicago-area municipality to discover mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus this year.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
While 330 Ebola infections are confirmed in central Africa and huge challenges remain, hundreds more suspected cases "have been cleared out," the WHO says.
Daley's Restaurant, known as Chicago's oldest, has served Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood for more than 130 years.
Walgreens is set to close in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood on Thursday, and there's growing concern about where families will get their medications.
The owners of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse are suing a concessions operator over their expansion at Midway International Airport.
DraftKings announced Monday that it is closing its sportsbook operation at Wrigley Field after only about two years.
After more than 80 years, there will be no Ann Sather restaurant location in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community, effective in June.
Clive Davis helped shape the careers of music stars including Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston.
Claude Guillemot and a flight instructor were flying in a twin-motor Cessna 421 on Friday evening. An investigation into the crash is underway.
James Burrows directed more than 1,000 episodes of television, including every episode of the original "Will & Grace."
In a full circle moment, actor Gary Cole returns to the very same local stage where he began his professional acting career.
Record producer Tay Keith was found dead in his Nashville home by officers performing a welfare check, police said.
Johnson attended the ribbon-cutting for the new $27 million one-acre space.
The mall on Chicago’s South Side is now permanently shut down by court order. City inspectors found the fire suppression system has leaked for the last two years and wouldn't properly put out a fire.
Both attacks were reported near rainbow beach within a week. The first happened on June 13 and the second on June 15.
The search for the missing teen continued during the weekend before she was recovered on Sunday. Coroners identified the teen as 16-year-old Destiny Neal from Elgin.
The original location at 501 N. Chicago in Joliet opened on June 22, 86 years ago. Now the Joliet Area Historical Museum is taking over the building as part of its Route 66 collection.
After a violent holiday weekend, Chicago city leaders are expected to announce new support for a dedicated Department of Gun Violence Prevention.
An explosion prompted a major evacuation in Dixon, Illinois, Monday morning.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
The tricycle was stolen from the family's back porch in Berwyn last week.
The search for the missing teen continued during the weekend before she was recovered on Sunday.
Newly released cell phone video of a police shooting in south suburban Country Club Hills appears to contradict what a federal agent claims happened during an undercover gun trafficking sting operation last week.
"A house of horrors." That's how one former Chicago foster child described Aunt Martha's Integrated Care Center, a facility that's been at the center of a years-long CBS News Chicago investigation.
Kindbody entered into an agreement with a cryogenic storage facility in Massachusetts, but not all patients received the email.
A Chicago woman says a life insurance policy she paid into for 25 years was cancelled over a $112 shortfall that she never knew existed, and now, at 82 years old, she's uninsurable.
The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.
The game will be made up as a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday, and the four-game series will begin Tuesday.
The Chicago Hounds won their first-ever championship over the weekend, in just their fourth year of existence.
Chicago's first documented professional team was founded back in 1870. The white stockings, who eventually became the Chicago Cubs, not the White Sox.
Dillon Dingler homered and drove in the tying run in the ninth, Matt Vierling's bloop single finished off Detroit's comeback as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 10 innings on Sunday.
Serena Williams recently returned to competition in doubles after nearly four years away from professional tennis.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said agents will take a less public-facing approach, and the chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission says he is already hearing signs of a new arrest uptick.
Chicago police on Monday issued a community alert about two sexual assaults that occurred in the South Shore community this month.
Etan Patz walked out of his New York City home headed for a school bus stop in May of 1979. He never made it to school and has never been found.
Chicago police on Monday morning were investigating a break-in at a smoke shop in the Portage Park community.
After a violent holiday weekend, Chicago city leaders are expected to announce new support for a dedicated Department of Gun Violence Prevention.
