A boy was shot, a man was stabbed, at least 15 people were arrested, several people were taken to hospitals, and at least two firearms were recovered as hundreds of teenagers overtook Streeterville and parts of the Loop on Friday evening.
A man who sued the city of Chicago within 40 hours of being arrested by CPD officers who allegedly seized a handgun from his waistband has now pleaded guilty to possessing that firearm. The arrest was caught on video, gaining local exposure on social media.
The suspect, apprehended on Thursday, faces a litany of charges, including three felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm, two felony counts of robbery, one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, and one misdemeanor count of obstructing identification.
Prosecutors have charged an Edgewater man with burglarizing an apartment building in the neighborhood, and a Chicago Police report says he may be responsible for even more cases.
The good news for Terrion Morris last Friday was that he was being released from the Robinson Correctional Center, where he had been serving time for parole violation in a gun case. The bad news was that some cops were waiting to arrest him again on new allegations that he robbed a man at gunpoint near Wrigley Field last year.
The man accused of killing his brother and his sister-in-law in their home and then trying to kill another victim inside a nearby tavern was on felony pretrial release for a narcotics charge at the time of the attacks, according to court records.
A man extradited back to Chicago to face charges of shooting at another driver’s car on the Dan Ryan Expressway received a two-year sentence on Thursday. That sentence will be more than satisfied by the 400+ days he spent observing a court-ordered curfew at home.
Surveillance cameras recorded the almost execution-style murder of a man as he walked with people who appeared to be his friends near a Chicago elementary school playground early Wednesday. More than 35 shell casings were found at the scene,
Prosecutors have charged a man with using a wrench and a gun to beat a man twice his age during an armed robbery and then accidentally leaving his own wallet at the crime scene.
A suburban man was handed an 8-year sentence on Tuesday for stabbing a convenience store clerk in Lincoln Square. Nicholas Mann, 28, was on parole and on bail for a pending burglary charge at the time of the May 17, 2023, attack.
Prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old girl with committing three robberies aboard Red Line trains since September. The girl turned herself in at the Central (1st) District police station in the South Loop on Tuesday.