31st Street Beach to close early for July 4th holiday due to recent shootings
So far, in 2024, there have been nine shootings at or near the beach.
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So far, in 2024, there have been nine shootings at or near the beach.
Multiple recent shootings at the popular 31st Street Beach have alarmed Chicago officials enough that the local alderman wants to have the beach close early during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
An altercation at a west suburban mall on Wednesday afternoon resulted in a shooting that injured two people.
Police said two men got into a fight at the Halsted stop on the Orange Line around 12:20 p.m., and during the fight a 44-year-old man was shot in the foot.
CBS 2's Shardaa Gray reports long delays for most of the day on the Orange Line after a passenger was shot on a train. The shooting happened at the Halsted station.
Keely Roberts spoke about how her son, Cooper, and family are recovering after the 2022 shooting.
Chicago police said officers responded to a call of a person shot and found two men, 32 and 35, both struck by gunfire.
Both men, 32 and 35, were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.
The victims were in an alley behind the 8900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue when someone shot them both, police said.
Shane Butler said he was grateful to be alive, and he owes it all to the safety training he did exactly one year before he accidentally shot himself.
A 14-year-old boy saved his own life after accidentally shooting himself thanks to the first aid training his football team got from a Chicago doctor last year.
A 14-year-old boy saved his own life after accidentally shooting himself thanks to the first aid training his football team got from a Chicago doctor last year.
CBS 2's Mugo Odigwe reports a passenger was killed, and a deadly shooting started out as a fight between two men in the back of the bus. One of the dead and the bus driver was shot.
The ages of the victims range from 17 to 55.
China Mitchell went to court in October 2022 and was granted an Emergency Order of Protection against her former boyfriend, Louie Foster, whom she accused of abuse.
Chicago police said just after 11:30 p.m., the teen was arguing with a 26-year-old woman in the 3000 block of South Fort Dearborn Drive.
The two offenders got into a silver SUV, pulled up to the victims, and began shooting in their direction, according to police.
Chicago police say two men and a woman were walking when they got into an argument with two other people who then got into a car, pulled up to them, and began shooting.
The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. in the 3400 block of West Grand Avenue in Humboldt Park.
The Cook County Sheriff's Department said around 3 a.m., police responded to a report of shots fired in the 1400 block of Ambassador Lane in Ford Heights.
While at the scene of a deadly shooting, officers were fired on by unknown offenders, and a Lynwood police officer who responded to assist suffered a graze wound.
Larry Neuman, 73, was shot around 11:30 a.m. last Thursday, June 20, in the 4300 block of West Monroe Street in West Garfield Park. A second teen was charged with his murder on Friday.
The incident happened around 1:39 a.m. in the 200 block of West 63rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood.
Chicago police said the men, 40 and 24, were outside when they were both shot at by someone traveling in a vehicle.
The two men, 40 and 24, were outside when they were both shot at by someone traveling in a vehicle, police said.
