1 Dead, At Least 4 Wounded In Overnight Shootings
Police are investigating several shootings overnight, which left one teenage boy dead and at least four others wounded on the South and Southwest sides.
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Police are investigating several shootings overnight, which left one teenage boy dead and at least four others wounded on the South and Southwest sides.
A 13-year-old boy was shot dead, while a 16-year-old boy was listed in "extremely critical" condition after a Wednesday afternoon shooting in the Marquette Park neighborhood that police believe may be gang-related.
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Police are searching for a sport-utility vehicle whose driver hit and killed a little girl riding a bicycle, then sped off on the city's Southwest Side.
A woman was killed in an early Saturday crash on the Southwest Side.
Police say a pair of girls only 16 years old are on a mission to grab jewelry from unsuspecting victims on the city's Southwest Side.
Police are looking for a man accused of luring two 10-year-old girls into his minivan and fondling one of the girls Wednesday morning in the Southwest Side Little Village neighborhood.
Murder charges have been filed in the death of a man whose death may have stemmed from a disagreement over a television set early Thursday in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.
A 51-year-old man, who previously received psychiatric treatment, went missing Sunday from a hospital on the Southwest Side.
Police are looking for two people who were in a reddish car involved in the shooting of a 9-year-old boy in the Southwest Side Marquette Park neighborhood Friday evening.
Four suspects attacked a landscaper during an armed robbery and fatally shot him as he was leveling soil Friday afternoon in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
An autopsy has determined a 15-year-old girl found hanging from a telephone pole in a Southwest Side alley Wednesday night committed suicide.
A man inside a parked car was shot in the face Friday night on the Southwest Side.
A 16-year-old boy was seriously wounded Tuesday during a shooting on the Southwest Side.
At least a dozen people were wounded in apparently unrelated shootings in a period of about 9 hours, on the city's South, Southwest and West sides.
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A man was killed in an apparent gang-related shooting Friday night on the Southwest Side.
Five people were hospitalized this morning after a traffic accident on the city's Southwest Side.
A man wearing a motorcycle helmet and armed with a gun robbed a bank near Midway Airport on the Southwest Side on Wednesday morning.
Construction crews hit a gas main this morning near in the Southwest Side's Garfield Ridge neighborhood, prompting police to reroute traffic.
At least 15 people were shot and wounded in the city over the weekend, all on the South and Southwest sides.
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A 28-year-old man was found severely beaten and unconscious early Thursday on a street in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
A man was fatally shot in the Gage Park neighborhood early Sunday on the Southwest Side.
A suspect was arrested Friday night after allegedly shooting at a 43-year-old man on the Southwest Side, police said. A police car was involved in an accident during the arrest.
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