Month: May 2024

A man was shot and killed during a “street takeover” in Gage Park overnight. No arrests have been made. Videos posted to social media by Chicago Critter show much of what happened.

Chicago police are looking for the hit-and-run driver who struck a woman in a Bucktown crosswalk on Saturday night, leaving her badly injured. It happened around 10:51 p.m. at the intersection of Armitage and Hoyne.

Two men who were allegedly caught carrying 44 pounds of cocaine in their luggage at Chicago Midway International Airport have each been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Less than two years after having his life sentence for murder and arson reversed following advocacy by the Innocence Project, an Oak Lawn man was charged Friday with trying to meet a 13-year-old for sex.

Video footage from scores of surveillance cameras, telephone location data, DNA evidence, and an eagle-eyed Chicago resident all helped Chicago police identify Xavier Tate Jr. as the man who murdered off-duty Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca during a carjacking on April 21, prosecutors said Friday.

Two television news reporters say Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ran away when they asked him to comment on the recent arrest of an alleged cop killer. And then the mayor’s office inexplicably claimed that the man they were chasing wasn’t really the mayor—even though two television station cameras recorded it all.