Month: January 2024

Another ride-share driver was shot last night when armed robbers targeted him as he dropped off a passenger on the West Side, Chicago police said. He is at least the third ride-share driver to be shot in the area under similar circumstances in the past month.

Sneaky phone scammers are convincing people to send them money by simulating the voices of the victims’ loved ones with artificial intelligence (AI), Illinois Atty. General Kwame Raoul said today.

Chicago police dismantled another robbery crew after the city’s vast network of license plate readers led them to the group’s getaway car, according to prosecutors and a CPD report.

Tio Hardiman, a community activist with Violence Interrupters, says Chicago police need new strategies so criminals start to believe cops will be “right around the corner.”

Chicago police are warning about burglars who are breaking into restaurants to steal cash registers and money during overnight hours. Nearly all of the crimes occurred in River North.

Prosecutors say a six-time convicted felon who’s currently on parole committed five armed robberies during December and burglarized a woman’s garage while Chicago police officers had him under surveillance.

The new year is off to a rough start for Mauricio Guillen Lopez, the Chicago man who prosecutors say rang in 2024 by firing 80 rounds into the air from three firearms while carrying $13,000 worth of meth in his pocket.

A Chicago man is charged with attempted murder, accused of shooting another man in the face while on bail for one gun case and on probation for another.

While you were enjoying the holidays, your Chicago Police Department leadership issued a new general order that formally defines anyone under the age of 25 as “youth” who must be given special consideration by the city’s police officers.

Prosecutors say a handyman viciously beat a co-worker with a hammer, stole the victim’s firearm, ditched his body in the crawlspace of a home they were remodeling, and left him for dead.