Month: April 2021

One year after COVID restrictions drove Chicago crime to record lows, Chicago police brass face a reckoning.

Prosecutors on Thursday approved attempted murder and other charges against a Far South Side man in connection with the April 6 shooting that left 22-month-old Kayden Swann critically wounded during a road rage incident on Lake Shore Drive, police said.

Breaking into a car? Dumb. Breaking into an unmarked police car while officers are handling a call nearby? That’s really dumb.

While CCBF’s publicity materials say it posts bond for people who “cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence,” court records show the group does not shy away from winning release for people who are accused of violent crimes.