Month: December 2023

A 19-year-old Chicago man is charged with committing an attempted murder, two carjackings, an armed robbery, and an attempted carjacking in a single morning, just three weeks after he received probation for driving a carjacked vehicle in the Loop.

Last weekend, a Cook County judge ordered a Venezuelan migrant to remain jailed as a public safety threat after prosecutors accused him of showing up at a woman’s doorstep with a gun. On Friday, a different judge set him free to await trial without so much as electronic monitoring.

A man was shot and killed while sitting in an SUV in the South Loop on Saturday night, Chicago police said. He’s the second person murdered on the block this year.

A 21-year-old woman helped a man as he carjacked a driver at gunpoint on the Dan Ryan Expressway last year, according to the Illinois State Police. Video of the hijacking went viral within days.

Chicago police are investigating after a California man was carjacked at gunpoint in East Pilsen on Wednesday evening. A source familiar with the case said the victim had just arrived in town to perform set work for The Chi.