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14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl killed in separate incidents overnight
The boy was sitting in a home in the Brainerd neighborhood and the girl was standing with a group on the sidewalk in the Lawndale neighborhood.
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7-Eleven clerk in the Fulton River District stabbed after asking woman to wear a mask
The 48-year-old male clerk told the female offender to put a mask on, at which time she produced a knife and stabbed the clerk twice in the abdomen.
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Man charged in shooting that killed 7-year-old Chicago girl
Police charged Aireon Luster on Wednesday with first-degree murder in the death of 7-year-old Serenity Broughton and he was charged with attempted murder after injuring her 6-year-old sister, Audrey Broughton, in the same shooting.
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Alleged gang members charged in slaying of Chicago rapper
In one of the more high profile murders of last year's many, many, many murders, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago said in a news release that the O-Block gang gunned down Carlton Weekly, also known as "FBG Duck," in August 2020 in the fashionable Gold Coast neighborhood.
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14-year-old girl, security guard seriously wounded in shooting outside Chicago school
A 14-year-old girl and a 45-year-old security guard were outside Wendell Phillips Academy High School at approximately 3:21pm when an unknown offender fired shots, striking both victims.
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3 wounded, including senior citizen, in drive-by shooting after Chicago funeral
The victims were attending a re-pass meal after a funeral when a dark colored Jeep drove up and an occupant from the vehicle fired shots.
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Jury convicts ex-professor of murder in stabbing death
Jurors in Cook County deliberated less than two hours before returning the guilty verdict against Wyndham Lathem, 47, a renowned microbiologist whom Northwestern fired after he fled the Chicago area following the killing.
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Federal jury convicts ticket broker in White Sox ticket scam
An indictment made public last year alleged that Bruce Lee, 35, owner of Chicago-based brokerage Great Tickets, made more than $860,000 by fraudulently selling nearly 35,000 tickets over four baseball seasons from 2016 to 2019.
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3 fifteen-year-olds and a 13-year-old among those shot in separate overnight incidents
Two 15-year-old males, one 15-year-old female, and one 13-year-old male were among those shot in the overnight hours in three separate shooting incidents, Chicago Police said.
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Second offender charged with murder of 14-year-old female
Michael Aguirre, 26, of the 200 block of S Oak Street in New Lenox, IL, was arrested Monday by the Chicago Police Department and the Great Lakes Regional Task Force in the 700 block of S Kostner, Chicago Police said.
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Chicago woman in Bali 'suitcase murder' to be released Oct. 29
Heather Mack, who was 18 when she was arrested a day after the discovery of Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body in the trunk of a taxi parked near the St. Regis Bali Resort, will be freed and deported to the United States on Oct. 29, said Lili, the Kerobokan Female Prison chief.
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2 killed in apparent suburban Chicago home invasion
Country Club Hills Police Chief John Galvin said that police had gone to the home at about 7:30 p.m. after someone called to report a home invasion at the home where the two men lived. He said police entered the home and found the two men, both of whom had suffered gunshot wounds.