COPA investigating shooting involving off-duty CPD officer on SW Side
Police said around 6:13 a.m. Sunday, the officer was confronted by multiple armed suspects, and an exchange of gunfire soon followed.
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Police said around 6:13 a.m. Sunday, the officer was confronted by multiple armed suspects, and an exchange of gunfire soon followed.
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Police said tactical officers were on patrol when they approached a suspect, only described as a male, to conduct an investigatory stop when he ran off.
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Chicago police said that just before 2 a.m., the officer was confronted by an armed person in the 100 block of East 57th Street, and the two exchanged gunfire.
He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition.
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One person was killed and five others were injured in a multi-vehicle crash on the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago's western suburbs early Sunday.
A fire at the vacant old Balmoral Park racetrack in Crete, Illinois, sent smoke billowing over several south Chicago suburbs Sunday morning.
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Rookie Gabriela Jaquez set career highs with 20 points and eight rebounds, Kamilla Cardoso had 11 points and 12 rebounds, and the Chicago Sky beat the Minnesota Lynx 86-79.
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A court hearing was held Sunday for a woman charged with stabbing her 2-month-old daughter to death in a home on Chicago's Southwest Side.
A motorcyclist was found with a gunshot wound on the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago's West Side Saturday night.
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