Man shot in Chatham
A man was shot in the South Side Chatham neighborhood Monday night. The man showed up at Jackson Park Hospital about 8 p.m. with a leg wound, according to Chicago Police. He told investigators the...
View ArticleJeffery Manor drive-by shooting wounds 1
A 24-year-old man was wounded in a Jeffery Manor drive-by shooting Monday night on the South Side. About 8:10 p.m., he was sitting in front of a home in the 2500 block of East 97th Place when someone...
View ArticleTeen shot in hand near Marquette Park
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the hand near Marquette Park Monday night on the Southwest Side. He showed up at Holy Cross Hospital just before 9 p.m. and told investigators he’d been shot in the 6700...
View ArticleUPDATE: 16-year-old boy shot in East Garfield Park
UPDATES WITH NARRATIVE A 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg in the East Garfield Park neighborhood Monday afternoon on the West Side. Just before 4:30 p.m., he was outside in the 3000 block of West...
View ArticleUPDATE: 3 shot in West Englewood
UPDATES WITH NEW DETAILS Three teens were shot in the West Englewood neighborhood Monday evening on the South Side. About 6:15 p.m., they were in an alley in the 2000 block of West 70th Place when...
View ArticleUPDATE: Missing Evanston teen found safe in Midlothian
UPDATES WITH GIRL FOUND (MIDLOTHIAN) A 17-year-old girl with developmental disabilities was located Monday night after disappearing for nearly a week from north suburban Evanston. Alishianna A. Harris...
View ArticleOrland Park school bus driver charged with slapping 4-year-old
(ORLAND PARK) A school bus driver in southwest suburban Orland Park slapped a 4-year-old child with special needs Friday, authorities said. Linda Bell, 63, faces a felony count of aggravated battery to...
View ArticlePolice: Boy, 10, disappears from West Englewood
Chicago Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a 10-year-old boy who disappeared from the West Englewood neighborhood Monday afternoon on the South Side. James Monegan Jr. was last...
View ArticleUPDATE: Missing West Englewood boy found
UPDATES WITH BOY FOUND A 10-year-old boy who disappeared from the West Englewood neighborhood Monday afternoon on the South Side has been found. James Monegan Jr. had last been seen about 1 p.m. in the...
View ArticleChicago Fire Department lieutenant dies after bicycle crash
UPDATES WITH NEW DETAILS A Chicago Fire Department lieutenant died Monday, three weeks after he was injured in a crash while riding his bicycle back to his Far South Side home following a shift. Danny...
View ArticleMedical examiner’s cases
Javier Martinez, 40, of an unknown home address, acute subarachnoid hemorrhage due to ruptured cerebral artery aneurysm at 1550 W. 18th St., pronounced dead at 4:23 p.m. [6/5], Area Central detectives....
View ArticleUPDATED ADVANCE DAYBOOK FOR WEDNESDAY, 10-12-16
ADDITIONS MARKED *** WEDNESDAY’S MEETINGS AND EVENTS* 8:30 a.m. — (CHICAGO) Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago annual Chicago Payments Symposium, with opening keynote by FRB Kansas City President Esther...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man shot to death in Belmont Gardens
UPDATES WITH NEW DETAILS A man was shot to death Tuesday evening in the Northwest Side Belmont Gardens neighborhood. At 6:09 p.m., the 20-year-old was outside in the 2500 block of North Kostner when...
View ArticleTownhouse explodes in Romeoville
(ROMEOVILLE) Crews responded to a townhouse explosion in southwest suburban Romeoville Tuesday night. It happened about 7:30 p.m. on Strawflower Court in the Wespark subdivision southwest of Weber and...
View ArticleWoman killed, 2 injured in Yorkville crash
(YORKVILLE) One woman was killed and two more were injured in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon in west suburban Yorkville. At 3:02 p.m., a 2008 Nissan Altima was stopped in traffic on Route 47...
View ArticleUPDATE: 2 gas company workers injured in Romeoville townhouse explosion
UPDATES WITH VILLAGE STATEMENT (ROMEOVILLE) Two Nicor Gas workers were injured — one of them seriously — when two townhouse units exploded Tuesday night in southwest suburban Romeoville. When emergency...
View ArticleCharges upgraded to murder after Englewood teen dies
Charges were upgraded against a South Side man a few months after the teenage boy he’s accused of shooting in Englewood died, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Corey Strother Jr. was only 15 in...
View ArticleUPDATE: 2 gas company workers injured in Romeoville townhouse explosion
UPDATES WITH PHOTOS, DISPLACEMENTS (ROMEOVILLE) Two Nicor Gas workers were injured — one of them seriously — when two townhouse units exploded Tuesday night in southwest suburban Romeoville. When...
View ArticlePolice warn of armed robberies in Bronzeville
Chicago Police are warning residents of armed robberies in the South Side Bronzeville neighborhood. In two incidents, two men walked up to victims, pulled out a handgun and demanded their property,...
View ArticleUPDATE: Panhandler fatally hit by car in West Rogers Park
UPDATES WITH ADDRESS CORRECTION A panhandler died Monday after being struck by a car Saturday in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side. At 4:30 p.m., the 53-year-old man was asking for...
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