2 people shot in apartment near NIU campus
Police said no students were involved. The two people are a man and a woman in their 20s. They are in serious condition at an area hospital.
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Police said no students were involved. The two people are a man and a woman in their 20s. They are in serious condition at an area hospital.
Four people were killed in a mass shooting on a CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park on Monday morning. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m., said Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher Chin.
Four people were killed in a mass shooting on a CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park on Monday morning. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m., said Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher Chin.
Some southwest suburban neighbors made a strong gesture on Monday to honor a Wisconsin college gymnast from Plainfield who was shot and killed last week. Those who knew 21-year-old Kara Welsh mourned her Monday morning, but also remembered the student by wrapping white ribbons around every tree and light pole in their neighborhood.
An Indiana sheriff's deputy was shot and critically wounded Sunday evening, while helping sheriff's deputies in a neighboring county in Illinois.
Four people were killed in a mass shooting on a CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park on Monday morning. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m., said Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher Chin.
Four people were killed in a mass shooting on a CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park on Monday morning. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m., said Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher Chin.
Four people were shot and killed Monday morning on a CTA Blue Line train in west suburban Forest Park. A suspect later was taken into custody on a Pink Line train.
Kara Welsh was set to begin her senior year at UW Whitewater on Tuesday.
Nicholas Ortiz, 24, appeared in court Sunday morning charged with one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm at a person or vehicle.
During the shootout, the gunman and a woman were shot, but it is not clear whose bullet hit the woman.
It happened around 1:19 a.m. in the 1000 block of West Lake Street.
A witness said the 34-year-old victim was standing outside when he was shot in the head by someone traveling in a gray sedan.
They were identified as two of the offenders who took a vehicle at gunpoint from a 37-year-old male man around 8:13 p.m. Friday in the 8100 block of South Escanaba Avenue.
Chicago police say around 9:30 p.m., the woman was sitting on a porch in the 11800 block of South Indiana Avenue with another man when an unknown man in a dark-colored SUV drove by and started shooting.
Sources say just after 7 p.m., someone went up to an off-duty officer from the Lyons Village Police Department and started shooting. The sergeant fired back. During the shootout, the gunman and a woman were shot, but it is not clear whose bullet hit the woman.
Chicago police say around 9:30 p.m., the woman was sitting on a porch in the 11800 block of South Indiana Avenue with another man when an unknown man in a dark-colored SUV drove by and started shooting.
The man on the porch with the woman, who had a concealed carry license, fired back, and the SUV driver left the scene.
The attackers fired shots at the victim, striking him in the back, police said.
The man was in his car when he was shot at 46th Street and Damen Avenue.
The carjackers fired shots at both the man and woman, grazing the woman in the right shoulder, police said.
Chicago police said the victim, 24, and another woman, 30, were sitting inside a car when two unknown armed males approached.
The shooting happened at 70th Street and Vernon Avenue in Park Manor.
A 17-year-old boy suffered a single gunshot wound to the right calf, and a 15-year-old boy was shot in the rear.
Three men were standing on the sidewalk when two people approached them and started shooting, police said.
