Police Warn Of Lawndale Armed Robberies
Police have issued an alert warning residents of the West Side Lawndale neighborhood of a man and woman who, working together, have robbed women at gunpoint of their purses.
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Police have issued an alert warning residents of the West Side Lawndale neighborhood of a man and woman who, working together, have robbed women at gunpoint of their purses.
Students in summer school at a West Side elementary school had an assignment to write about violence.
Now that Felony Franks has shut down on Chicago's West Side, its owner wants to take the store to the gritty West Side of Evanston.
A Chicago Police officer shot and killed a dog early Friday, while breaking up a squatters' party on the city's West Side.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday the Police Department is prepared to expand its anti-gang strategies, after early efforts in two neighborhoods have shown dramatic results.
Twelve residential buildings on the South and West Side were scheduled to be torn down Thursday, in an effort to eliminate hives for gang activity and violent crime.
Five people were in police custody Thursday morning after a police pursuit that ended in the West Side's South Austin neighborhood.
Police are looking for a man who tried to sexually assault two women at knifepoint at their West Side homes.
A woman remained hospitalized as of last report, after being critically injured in a fire in the North Lawndale neighborhood building where she lived.
A West Side man who is not a bus driver is in big trouble, after he allegedly stole a CTA bus from one garage and returned it to another across town for reasons unexplained.
A West Garfield Park neighborhood man apparently believed he looked enough like an alderman – or that enough people had no clue what the alderman in question looked like – to go around impersonating the city lawmaker.
Police are looking for the suspect who killed one person and wounded three others on the city's West Side Monday night
A 5-year-old girl was following her sister across the street on the city's West Side, when a hit-and-run driver slammed into her and took her life.
One way people are keeping a bit cooler on the West Side today is buying cold water from street vendors.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said police have very good leads in the shooting death of a 7-year-old girl overnight, and he expects an arrest soon.
Police are looking for a motorist who drove away after striking a boy and girl Tuesday afternoon on the West Side.
Charges are pending against a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a man early Sunday in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said.
Police say drug markets in the South and West Sides were "effectively dismantled" with the culmination Friday of several missions targeting these markets, in areas affected by gang violence.
Two men were shot and killed early Tuesday on the city's West Side -- one of whom was reportedly visiting from Atlanta for his grandfather's funeral.
A man was fatally shot early Sunday on the block where he lived in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said.
Police have released surveillance images of the car involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a 19-year-old woman injured this week on the city's West Side.
It was party time Thursday morning outside a West Side elementary school, where kids were getting out of school for the summer, and adults were encouraging students to say safe this summer, and come back in the fall without any empty seats.
A male was critically wounded and two women were hurt in a shooting early Sunday in the West Side Garfield Park neighborhood.
Three members of a West Side family were hospitalized when they were stabbed, allegedly by another family member, early Saturday in the West Side Garfield Park neighborhood.
Two teenagers have been charged as juveniles for bringing a gun to a near West Side school.
