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13-year-old wounded by gunfire on the west side
According to statistics provided by HeyJackass.com, as of September 1, 2022, there have been 260 kids 17-and-under struck by gunfire so far this year, and 42 have died.
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Woman stabs man to death in South Shore
A woman is in custody after authorities said she stabbed a man to death during a domestic dispute on the city's south side early this morning.
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Rockford man slain after exchanging shots with officers
Officers were responding to a domestic dispute and entered the home Thursday night where they exchanged shots with the man.
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5-year-old Chicago boy dies days after drive-by shooting
Devin's mother was buckling him into a car seat in the Rogers Park neighborhood Sunday evening when a car pulled alongside and someone in the car opened fire. Devin was struck in the head and his father was shot in a hand and shoulder.
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Retired CPD Officer shot multiple times during attempted robbery
Chicago Police reported one of their own retired officers was shot multiple times after he intervened in an attempted robbery early this morning on the city's south side.
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Teens charged with 11 carjackings in August, including 9 in one day
A pair of teenagers have been charged with a total of 17 felonies in connection to 11 armed carjackings in the month of August, including 9 that occurred within a single day, authorities said.
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16-year-old charged with killing woman in Little Village and seriously injuring another woman
A 16-year-old was charged with murder Tuesday for the shooting and killing of a 22-year-old woman and seriously injuring a 24-year-old woman in Little Village last week, authorities said.
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Springfield man gets 55 years for killing deputy US marshal
Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Jacob Keltner, 35, was a McHenry County deputy working with a Marshal’s Service fugitive task force when he was killed on March 7, 2019, at a Rockford hotel.
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Two shot, 1 killed, directly outside 22nd District station
The offender(s) were so brazen they reportedly briefly stopped in the drive entry of the 22nd District Station's sally port and fired additional shots at the victims.
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Chicago man admits to robbing eight banks in city and suburbs
A man admitted in federal court that he robbed eight Chicago-area banks over a seven-month period in 2019. Two co-defendants previously pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery apiece and admitted to participating in some of the heists.
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4 injured in drive-by shooting near Chicago high school
Four teenagers were injured — one critically — in a drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon near a high school on Chicago's Northwest Side, police said.
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Englewood man charged with 3 counts of murder in hit-and-run outside Jeffery Pub in South Shore
Chicago Police announced first-degree murder charges against a man from the Englewood neighborhood today and say he intentionally mowed down a group of men who were fighting outside Jeffery Pub in the South Shore neighborhood.