| File The number of police-involved shootings in the city has fallen nearly every year for the past seven years, according to Chicago Police Department data, with last year seeing 70% fewer such incidents than 2011. The trend appears to be continuing into 2019. Only two persons have been shot so far this year by
| Google Police are investigating a pair of robberies in the Lincoln Park neighborhood: • A 28-year-old woman was reportedly robbed of her phone as she rode the Red Line into the Fullerton station at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The victim said a teenager forced the phone out of her hand as the doors opened
Anis Tungekar lies on the pavement as his attacker walks away. Tungekar would die two days later.| Provided Omar Tungekar tried to contact someone in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office after his father was kicked to death in a West Loop road rage incident on Sept. 2nd. “I spent days trying to find a
Approximate locations of Saturday’s incidents. | Multiplottr A carload of thieves pulled off a series of at least four robberies stretching from Old Town to Streeterville on Saturday afternoon before police caught up with the crew in River North. Four suspects, believed to be juveniles, are in custody. The first robbery was reported around 12:45
Gamaliel Cabrera is charged with an armed carjacking in the 2900 block of N. Greenview. | CPD; Google A Wicker Park man has been charged with carjacking a Lakeview resident at gunpoint earlier this month. The 28-year-old victim reported being jumped and robbed of his phone, computer, and 2018 Buick Encore SUV in the 2900
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx | CBS2 The organization that represents Illinois’ prosecuting attorneys this afternoon released a statement that decimates Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office’s resolution of the Jussie Smollett hate crime fraud case. Signed by its president, the Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association (IPBA) statement “condemns” the actions that
Update May 27, 2020 — CWBChicago has secured police bodycam video of the incident. The West Side man who was released by police when an angry mob surrounded and threatened to shoot them earlier this month is back in custody—and so is the main instigator in the confrontation, according to Chicago police. Around 2 p.m. on
Ryan Wynne was recently charged for the incident, which was reported in late December. | CPD; Addison& Clark Charges have been filed against a man who was allegedly involved in a shooting incident near Wrigley Field late last year. A security guard at the newly-opened Addison & Clark entertainment and housing complex, 1025 West Addison,
A prowler is forcing his way into Loop restaurants after hours to take valuables, including cash that has been left in registers overnight, police said. Detectives report in a community alert today that the man seen here pries open entrance doors or breaks front door glass to get inside. He’s struck at least four times
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says her office treated accused celebrity hate crime faker Jussie Smollett in the same way that ordinary citizens facing similar criminal charges are treated. Is that true? Not so much, according to court files that document what has happened to other defendants who’ve allegedly filed run-of-the-mill false reports with
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