Month: August 2025

A 35-year-old Chicago man has been handed a 13-year sentence for shooting and killing a man on the Eisenhower Expressway while he was on bail for an attempted murder case. He got another four years for a DUI, which he also got while on bail for the attempted murder charge.

A city commission’s plan to limit the reasons Chicago police officers can make traffic stops is moving forward even though its own in-house survey found that a majority of city residents do not want any restrictions placed on CPD’s ability to stop drivers.

A 22-year-old Wonder Lake man has been detained after prosecutors said a victim’s dashcam acted as a “silent witness,” helping investigators solve a near-fatal road rage shooting on the Kennedy Expressway last month.

A man who cut off his ankle monitor, fled a murder scene in a stolen car, and then ran over a Chicago police officer who tried to arrest him has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Antonio Gonzalez, 22, struck a plea deal with prosecutors that closes a tangled series of cases spanning from 2021 to 2022.

Shootings left 23 people wounded and two people dead in Chicago over the weekend, the fewest victims for the same weekend since at least 2015, according to HeyJackass, a site that independently tracks city crime data using open-source and official databases.

A Venezuelan migrant who mugged an 80-year-old woman last summer, got release, and burglarized a famiy’s home just four days later, has been handed a four-year prison sentence.