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Jeffon Williams has been charged with seven counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault of a police officer. A bond hearing is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
At least 54 people were shot, and 10 of them had been killed, over the weekend in Chicago.
Zion police said officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday on the 2300 block of Joppa Avenue.
Five people were shot Sunday afternoon – and one of them was killed – while dining outside at a pancake house in Morgan Park.
One week ago, on Sunday, Aug. 23, a police officer shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake seven times in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
A 15-year-old boy was shot and critically injured in Woodlawn Sunday night.
It was a week ago Sunday that Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Two Chicago police officers were shot in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood Sunday morning. The officers fired back after a man shot at them, according to the Chicago Police Department.
The driver got out of his car, ignored the officer's commands to put his hands up, and appeared to be reaching for a firearm in his waistband, police say.
Rapid-fire gunshots rang out in Chicago's River North neighborhood just after midnight Saturday.
A military veteran tried to save one of the shooting victims in Kenosha in his final moments but says there was nothing she could do to save him.
Wednesday night's protests were much calmer than those that filled the streets in Kenosha earlier this week. As of early Thursday, there were no groups patrolling with long guns as there were during previous nights of protests of Jacob Blake's shooting.
In Kenosha late Thursday, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said they are looking forward to seeing Kenosha rebuild, and to see broken systems and racial injustice taken on.
There were a lot of questions Thursday for those in charge in Kenosha, as the city has dealt with days of unrest after the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. But we're not getting any answers.
"In the wake of what has taken place in our backyard of Kenosha over the last couple of days, we as a team have a lot on our mind today," the Bears said in a statement.
Wisconsin State Attorney General Josh Kaul on Wednesday identified the Kenosha officer who shot Jacob Blake on Sunday, and also said a knife was found in his vehicle – but he had no other weapons.
Some of the clearest pictures of what happened overnight Tuesday in Kenosha come from a freelance photojournalist, a veteran of 30 year on the streets.
In one video on social media, a young man with the rifle can be hard saying "I just killed somebody" as he runs away from the scene after several shots rang out at a car dealership in Kenosha.
Kenosha police were under pressure Wednesday to stop the violence going on amid unrest in the city.
Protesters exchanged words with the armed group as they vowed to protect the city from continued looting and burning.
"He's a human being and he matters," the father of Jacob Blake said at a news conference in Kenosha on Tuesday, two days after his son was shot by police there.
People living in Kenosha woke up to a second day of destruction Tuesday following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police.
One person is dead and two were injured in a shooting in south suburban Sauk Village on Tuesday, sources said.
The delays meant that officers who were on the scene of Sunday's shooting of Jacob Blake while responding to a domestic call were not equipped with technology that could give their perspective on an incident that has roiled the nation.
Fires, looting, and confrontations with police have erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin after a police officer shot a Black man in the back seven times on Sunday, seriously wounding him.
