Man Charged With Fatal Shooting In Back Of The Yards
Victor Vazquez, 20, faces one felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the death of Albertano Medrano, according to Chicago Police.
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Victor Vazquez, 20, faces one felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the death of Albertano Medrano, according to Chicago Police.
Ted Merchant faces one felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting in the 2800 block of East 77th Place, according to Chicago Police.
The alleged driver in a deadly shootout in the parking lot of a South Side currency exchange was ordered held on $1 million bail Thursday.
A man has been found guilty of shooting a man to death during a drug deal in west suburban Aurora in 2014.
Nearly five years after the so-called Dixmoor Five were cleared of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, a convicted sex offender has been charged in the case.
Deandre Minkens, 25, was convicted June 10 of murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child following a jury trial, according to Cook County court records.
A man who turned himself in for killing a man and seriously injuring another when he fired a gun toward his estranged wife's boyfriend near a crowd of people in 2013 has been sentenced to 130 years in prison.
Robert Burgess, 56, has been charged with first-degree murder for the 10:04 a.m. shooting in the 1800 block of South Michigan, according to Chicago Police.
Terrance Meredith, 43, faces one felony count of first-degree murder, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
A stolen car sought in connection to the murders of an elderly woman and her son in far west suburban Sycamore was found in Chicago on Wednesday.
A lawyer for Tarrill Peters Jr. said the then-17-year-old was only trying to flee the neighborhood in his mother's rented Buick LaCrosse after some relatives started viciously beating his father.
Antowaun Mathis, 31, was arrested at a residence in Hampton, Virginia, the marshals service said. The arrest occurred without incident. Mathis was held in the Hampton City Jail awaiting extradition.
Authorities are still asking for the public's help in finding the killer or killers of an elderly woman and her son last week inside their rural DeKalb County home.
A former daycare worker convicted in the death of a toddler will return to a Lake County courtroom on Thursday, for hearings on her request for a new trial.
A man was shot to death Tuesday night in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
According to Cook County prosecutors, an Oak Park man already facing charges for a fatal drug-related shooting was involved in another murder while out on bond for the earlier incident, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
A Chicago man who was wanted for the murder of his wife nearly three years ago in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood has been extradited from Mexico.
Chadwick Perkins, 26, was charged with one count of first degree murder, according to Chicago Police.
Jesus Tejeda was already facing attempted murder in connection with the Dec. 27, 2013 incident in Harvey.
Peterson's lawyer, Steve Greenberg, argues that just being convicted in Savio's death does not allow the board to revoke Peterson's pension benefits.
Janet Strickland encouraged 23-year-old William Strickland to shoot his namesake grandfather six times in the back as the 72-year-old walked out of their home in the 400 block of East 95th Street to grab a bus to his weekly dialysis treatment on March 2, 2013, according to Cook County prosecutors.
Alfredo Soto, 48, was charged with first-degree murder, according to Aurora police.
Jose Arturo Salgado-Roque, 42, was charged with one count of first-degree murder, according to the Cook County sheriff's office.
Chicago police have seized an average of nearly one gun an hour this year, and the department believes that push could help reduce the city's violent crime rate.
Former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who helped to convict him in the murder of his third wife.
