A man was shot and killed outside an Old Town grocery store overnight. It happened in the parking lot of Jewel-Osco, 424 West Division, around 2:31 a.m.
An employee of a popular Boystown nightclub was stabbed during a robbery on the Halsted Street bar strip overnight, just hours before the neighborhood’s annual Pride Fest street party is scheduled to begin.
The burglar who went viral after being attacked by a frying pan-wielding homeowner is a 12-time convicted felon who was paroled three months ago on burglary, forgery, theft, and stolen motor vehicle cases, according to court filings.
A 16-year-old boy is dead and two others injured following a shooting in the Arcadia Terrace neighborhood on Friday evening. Investigators found more than 40 rifle casings at the scene.
The 16-year-old boy who opened fire on a West Side street Tuesday, killing 7-year-old Jai’mani Amir Rivera, had two active arrest warrants for failing to appear in court at the time of the shooting, Chicago police said Friday.
The shootings of four people since Wednesday are prompting an alderman to call for the city to close 31st Street Beach early and strictly enforce a nighttime curfew. Two kids, ages 12 and 15, were shot at the beach earlier this month.
A man wearing an ankle monitor for a pending gun case was on the streets at 3 a.m., robbing a Streeterville man in the River North neighborhood, prosecutors say.
A man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for shooting another man during a 2021 carjacking in Logan Square. Travon Duffie, now 21 years old, was awaiting trial for three felony cases in juvenile court at the time of the crime.
Two men face federal charges after one of them allegedly robbed a Northwest Side bank and then stashed the money and a firearm in the accomplice’s SUV on Tuesday morning.
Two migrants are charged with robbery after a group of people stormed a Streeterville convenience store and stole bags of beer, according to Chicago police reports.