Akeira Boston, 16, Slain In Dolton Amid Concerns About Violence
Minutes after Dolton village officials held a meeting calling for more police officers to help with violence, a woman was shot in the area.
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Minutes after Dolton village officials held a meeting calling for more police officers to help with violence, a woman was shot in the area.
Tyshawn, who was in fourth grade, was shot multiple times at close range with a .40-caliber weapon, after being lured into an alley at 80th and Damen, near his grandmother's house, on November 2, 2015.
One man is dead and another was critically wounded following a shooting under the Chicago Transit Authority Green Line tracks in the East Garfield Park neighborhood Monday afternoon.
Shots were fired into a crowd in East Chatham, striking four people early Sunday morning.
Shots were fired at an off-duty Chicago police officer in the Burnside neighborhood early Saturday morning.
A 60-year-old man is dead after being shot in the head in the South Side's Cottage Grove Heights neighborhood early Saturday.
Bowman was struck in the head and lost control of her minivan – crashing it into a tree near Cottage Grove Avenue.
Sauk Village police said, around 9:15 p.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired near 219th and Clyde. When they arrived, they found two 33-year-old men who had been shot inside an SUV.
That man said he feared for his life when Swopes and five friends allegedly broke into his property and tried to steal his car.
A Chicago native jumped into action to save a fellow student after a campus shooting in Atlanta this week.
An off-duty Chicago police officer fired his weapon at a burglary suspect in Hyde Park Wednesday afternoon, but the suspect got away.
Police have said Cunningham, a father of five, was holding a gun at the time, but his loved ones have insisted he was a licensed concealed carry gun owner.
Police said a homeowner shot an intruder he found in his backyard shortly before 5:00 in the morning. At last check, the homeowner was in custody.
Dolton police are urging people to stay vigilant as they search for a second suspect, following a wild shootout with officers Monday afternoon.
A 16-year-old boy was found dead of a gunshot wound late Monday night in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
An East Garfield Park neighborhood homeowner shot an intruder in his backyard early Tuesday.
A 10-year-old boy was grieving Monday night, after his mother was gunned down doing something as simple as driving by in her car.
A police officer was injured after shooting at a suspect in Dolton on Monday.
The victim was shot twice in the stomach and was taken to the University of Chicago hospital where he later died.
Police say the shooting happened at 3 a.m. near East 23rd Avenue and Kentucky Street where at least one officer used deadly force.
More than 20 shots were fired into a far South Side home where several children, including a 12-year-old girl, were inside. Lakiya Charleston was shot twice while sleeping on the couch.
A woman is dead and a man was in serious condition late Friday following a shooting in the West Side's North Lawndale neighborhood.
A man and woman were shot and rushed to the hospital Thursday night in a drive-by incident in the Bronzeville neighborhood.
Bernard Harvey Jr., 40, has been charged with Illegal Possession of a Firearm in connection with Monday's shooting at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, according to the U.S States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
A Sunday shooting at a barbecue in Humboldt Park that wounded several people including an 8-year-old was just one of 38 incidents across the city over the weekend from Friday to Sunday.
