A Chicago woman faces charges of first-degree murder and concealing a homicidal death for allegedly beating a man to death with a hammer and stashing his body in a kitchen cupboard.
The alderman whose ward includes nearly all of Streeterville wants to expand the city’s curfew law to ban unaccompanied minors from being in the downtown area after 8 p.m.
Chicago police have charged an 11-year-old boy with robbing a man nearly six times his age on a CTA train. He worked with a 14-year-old girl to commit the crime, police said.
After a couple was attacked by teenagers in the heart of Streeterville on Friday night, the latest in a series of incidents involving groups of young people roaming the streets, two condo buildings in the neighborhood are hiring private security “until the police are able to control the situation.”
A gunman fired shots at a man as he parked his car at a North Side park early Tuesday, possibly during a robbery attempt, according to Chicago police and a source.
Two men with extensive criminal records, both on parole, robbed and murdered a young father as he walked to work on the Northwest Side last month, prosecutors said Tuesday.
A bill that passed the Illinois General Assembly will allow traffic violators to get three unpaid traffic tickets per year before they have their license suspended.
A Chicago police recruit suffered a gunshot wound to his back while driving in Ravenswood overnight, police said. The victim’s 21-year-old passenger, also believed to be a male CPD recruit, was not injured.
A Chicago man accused of trying to sexually assault two women in two days could have been arrested nearly two weeks before the attacks after three women accused him of grabbing them in Marquette Park. But a Chicago police sergeant decided not to take him into custody, a CPD report said
The man who died after being found unresponsive on a Loop sidewalk on April 10 died from a toxic combination of street drugs, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Barely a month after a judge removed the ankle monitor Kameron Freeman wore while awaiting trial for possessing a stolen SUV, the 29-year-old participated in the robbery and murder of an Uber driver, prosecutors say.
A Chicago man who recently completed parole for a felony gun case is already back in jail after allegedly falling asleep in an Uber with a machine gun on his lap.