Uptown
Month: December 2024
West Loop
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Bridgeport
Washington Park
Migrant shot another migrant for murdering a third migrant, prosecutors say
A Venezuelan migrant, charged with murdering another migrant, is hospitalized after being shot by yet another migrant who was angered by the killing, officials say. Both shootings occurred inside the same building where a 911 call about armed migrants in September was chalked up to racism by mainstream news outlets.
Rogers Park
Citywide
On federal parole for stolen machine gun case, man’s charged with murdering 62-year-old on Thanksgiving
CHICAGO — In May 2021, as U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall sentenced Gad Hughes to five years in federal prison for tossing a stolen machine gun from a car as he sped from police on the Dan Ryan Expressway at 100 mph, she told him she was worried about “an escalation of behavior” in his criminal
Citywide
Citywide
Portage Park
Domestic violence defendants are being detained much more often since reassignment of embattled judge
There are new developments in last month’s fatal stabbing of a woman on the Northwest Side by her estranged husband, who was found dead hours later. First, the Cook County Medical Examiner has determined how the husband died. Second, we dug into court records to see if defendants are being detained more often since a shake-up in a city domestic violence courtroom.
CTA
Man gets 41 years for murdering his ex on a downtown train platform
A judge this week sentenced a man to 41 years in prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death on a CTA platform in downtown Chicago. Jurors found Alejandro Arellano, 33, guilty of two counts of murder on Halloween, and Judge Timothy Joyce handed down his sentence Tuesday, court records show. Arellano must serve 100% of the time.
Austin
McDonald’s patrons tackled and beat an armed robber until cops arrived, Chicago police report says
A man who robbed a McDonald’s customer at gunpoint on the West Side was hospitalized after the restaurant’s patrons ganged up on him and beat him until Chicago police arrived, officials said. And, prosecutors claim, it was the second time in ten days that the gunman had robbed the same victim inside the same restaurant.
CTA