Chicago Journal
A violent Thursday afternoon and evening saw 4 people shot and killed, plus an additional 14 wounded through the overnight hours across the city. Among the wounded were two 13-year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl. Among the dead, an 18-year-old and 19-year-old males.
Chicago Journal
Before he was sentenced, O’Donnell apologized “to those whose businesses were left in utter ruin” and said he was sorry “if I hurt Chicago’s character in any way.”
Chicago Journal
Joel Cammon, 44, of Blue Island, was arrested yesterday in the village of Alsip. Police say he's the man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman over a three day period last month in an abandoned building in West Pullman.
Chicago Journal
A 22-year-old woman was shot and killed during an argument with a man on the city's south side late Tuesday night.
Chicago Journal
The shooting occurred about 9 p.m. Tuesday and fights erupted nearby as crowds were cleared from the beach, police said. Three Chicago police officers were injured breaking up fights.
Law
Supt. Brown said he expects the new policy will make officers and the public safer, as has happened in other cities that have put in place similar policies. He told reporters he expects the policy will be in place by the end of the summer after all officers receive training.
Chicago Journal
Two teenage girls have been charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery in the stabbing of a 15-year-old girl on Chicago's South Side.
Chicago Journal
Officials reported five people were shot and killed across the city yesterday, in the neighborhoods of Little Village, South Austin, Humboldt Park, Chicago Lawn, and Roseland.
Chicago Journal
While conducting a traffic stop in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Thursday, police said he attempted to flee (in his personal vehicle with license plates registered to his home), and struck and injured a Chicago Police Officer.
Chicago Journal
Jalon James, 11, was going to buy milk with his twin brother when he was struck and killed while crossing a street in the city's Lawndale neighborhood on Thursday. The driver remains at large.
Crime
Around 8:21 a.m., police said they found an as yet unidentified man dead with a gunshot wound to his face.
Crime
A suburban Chicago man charged in the drowning deaths of his three young children left a note for his estranged wife saying, “If I can’t have them neither can you,” prosecutors said Wednesday.