Month: April 2024

Charges have been filed against two teenage boys for allegedly robbing two people, including an Amazon driver, on Saturday afternoon. The teens are also accused of robbing two University of Chicago students and at least one other person a couple of hours later.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering the wrong person in a botched revenge killing just days after being paroled.

A Chicago rapper is charged with carjacking two people in a single night while he was on pretrial release for a machine gun possession case.

It looks like Chicago’s mayor is going to spend a long, hot summer defending his decision to spike ShotSpotter every time directs cops to shooting scenes before 911 callers. For now, though, the system is still active. And it’s still leading to arrests. Here are some recent examples.

An 18-year-old Chicago man with a significant criminal history had a pending gun case when he shot and killed another man earlier this year, prosecutors say.

An Amazon delivery driver got out of his car to assist a man he saw get robbed at gunpoint in Chicago on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, he didn’t wait until the robbers were gone, and they stopped their getaway car to rob him, too.