Boy, 14, Critically Hurt In Austin Drive-By
The 14-year-old boy was found on the sidewalk after shots were fired at him from a red vehicle traveling east on North Avenue.
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The 14-year-old boy was found on the sidewalk after shots were fired at him from a red vehicle traveling east on North Avenue.
The Chicago Public Schools' plan to close 53 schools and 61 buildings, mostly in black neighborhoods, has some West Side residents vowing to fight the Emanuel administration until the end.
One man was beaten to death at a CTA station, a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot and at least 15 other people were wounded in separate acts of violence across the city this weekend.
A man suffered three graze wounds to the head but suffered no serious injury when gunfire rang out in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood.
A Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who allegedly pointed a gun at police in the East Garfield Park neighborhood early Thursday morning.
The man, 24, was in the 1300 block of North Saint Louis Avenue when he was shot in the head about 8:40 p.m.
Two men are in critical condition after being stabbed early Sunday on the West Side.
Police say an argument between two men Sunday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood led to one of them shooting the other one dead.
Two men were killed and at least five other people were wounded in weekend gun violence in Chicago.
The hostage situation began after police officers were sent to a building near Ashland Avenue and Hastings Street about 3:16 a.m., when they received a call about a domestic dispute.
A man was shot three times in the back Wednesday night about three blocks away from a police station on the West Side.
Another young student in Chicago has been lost to gun violence; this time, it's a senior at Clemente High School on the West Side
Police have made no arrests in either shooting as area detectives investigate.
Police are warning businesses of a series of armed robberies that have occurred since January throughout the city, mostly on the North and West sides, that have been escalating and moving south.
The victim, thought to be in his 20s, was found in an alley in the 5000 block of West Erie Street in the Austin neighborhood about 11:25 p.m. Monday.
A woman was killed Saturday morning when the car she was driving on the West Side crashed into a tree.
A fire on the West Side sent two adults and two children to the hospital on Tuesday morning.
A man was shot as another man tried to rob him in a West Side alley Saturday morning.
A 40-year-old Urbana man was expected at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse at 26th and California for a bond hearing on Saturday, after his arrest this week for the murder of a man on the West Side of Chicago last year.
A 15-year-old boy was wounded in the shoulder during a Saturday afternoon shooting in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
A man was shot and killed Friday night in a Popeyes in the Austin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
A man was killed in a drug-related shooting in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood Tuesday morning, police said.
He was walking his dog when he was gunned down on Chicago's West Side.
Five people are in critical condition after a car crash in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to Fire Department officials.
As the city was closing out 2012 overnight, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was out on patrol with his officers, and even helped make a felony arrest.
