Month: September 2022

A gunman opened fire just yards from where NBC’s Chicago Fire television show was filming on Chicago’s West Side this afternoon, according to law enforcement and industry sources.

Cook County Circuit Court judges elected Timothy Evans to be their chief judge for an eighth consecutive term on Tuesday, according to a statement from his office.

Chicago police are now warning about a third armed robbery and carjacking crew that is working the city’s near west and north sides.

Prosecutors say a man beat a man with a pipe, killing him, in a Northwest Side home where they sometimes did drugs together. Judge Mary Marubio ordered Lukasz Wiercioch, 29, held without bail on a charge of first-degree murder.

Ruben Roman, the man accused of firing a handgun and then passing it off to 13-year-old Adam Toledo moments before the boy was fatally shot by Chicago police last year, is being held without bail in Cook County jail after authorities allegedly found ammunition in the home where he was staying on electronic monitoring (EM).

A man is facing attempted kidnapping charges after his ex-girlfriend recognized him in surveillance footage of the crime that Chicago police released to the public last week, officials said Monday.

Another wave of robberies hit Wicker Park, the West Loop, and West Town overnight as the area continues to be targeted for robbery sprees almost daily.