April 2026 - Page 3 of 9

CPD cameras followed her home: Woman charged with shooting 3 outside Irving Park bar

April 23, 2026 6:46 PM Tim Hecke

A woman pulled her minivan to a stop and opened fire on a group of people trying to enter an Irving Park bar early on April 12, wounding three men and sending a fourth to the hospital after he tore a ligament in his knee diving out of the way, prosecutors said Thursday.

Man shot in the West Loop during Thursday rush hour

April 23, 2026 2:56 PM CWBChicago

A man was shot during an altercation on a West Loop sidewalk during Thursday morning’s rush hour, Chicago police said.

Man whose chase led to officer’s unintentional death gets 8 year sentence, but state drops most serious charges

April 23, 2026 1:23 PM Tim Hecke

The armed parolee whom Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera was chasing when her partner unintentionally shot and killed her last year received an eight-year sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to one of the least-serious charges that prosecutors filed against him, court records show.

Perv alert! Chicago cops warn of man who committed ‘indecent act’ on the Brown Line

April 23, 2026 12:21 PM CWBChicago

Chicago police are searching for a man who allegedly committed an indecent act while riding the Brown Line in Lincoln Park earlier this month.

Takeover robbery at downtown diner ends with 1 hospitalized, police say

April 23, 2026 9:07 AM Tim Hecke

A crew of armed robbers targeted a downtown diner and its customers early Thursday, pistol-whipping one man before racing to Logan Square and hitting a convenience store minutes later, according to Chicago police reports.

Dead monkey, 125 pounds of African beef found in luggage at O’Hare: CBP

April 22, 2026 11:16 AM CWBChicago

It’s always something at O’Hare’s customs checkpoint. On April 11, it was two things: a dead monkey in a suitcase and 125 pounds of African beef hidden inside dried seafood.

16-year-old charged with murder had been arrested three times for guns, prosecutors say

April 22, 2026 10:59 AM Tim Hecke

A 16-year-old boy on probation for a gun case, with two more firearm arrests in his background, chased down and killed a Brighton Park man on a neighborhood street last autumn, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Chicago man sentenced to 60 years for murdering friend while on an ankle monitor for 2 cases

April 22, 2026 9:09 AM Tim Hecke

Acquitted of murder as a juvenile, he’s now going to prison for 60 years for murdering a friend as an adult — while wearing an ankle monitor for two pending cases, including escape.

CPD catches 2 men carrying guns during one encounter at Loop CTA station: report

April 21, 2026 3:37 PM Tim Hecke

Chicago police officers seized two firearms and arrested two men during a single incident at the same CTA station in the Loop on Sunday morning, the latest sign of progress in a reinvigorated push to reclaim the city’s train lines from criminals and ne’er-do-wells.

Man arrested on 4/20 with pot and a scale at the same Red Line stop where sheriff’s police busted him with a gun 13 days earlier

April 21, 2026 2:17 PM Tim Hecke

Less than two weeks after Cook County Sheriff’s Police arrested Vincent Jones for allegedly having a gun on the Red Line, his pretrial release went up in smoke Monday when they arrested him again at the same station — this time for allegedly carrying what to a cannabis dispensary in his backpack. And yes, it happened on 4/20.

Feds double reward for gangbanger charged with murdering National Guardsman on the Fourth of July

April 21, 2026 12:47 PM Tim Hecke

The FBI has doubled its reward to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Milwaukee Kings street gang member accused of murdering a 19-year-old National Guardsman in Belmont Cragin on the Fourth of July 2021. The development comes nearly five years after local prosecutors declined to approve murder charges in the case.

Sheriff’s police catch another man with a gun on the Red Line: report

April 20, 2026 7:34 PM CWBChicago

A man’s decision to smoke while riding the Red Line was all it took for Cook County Sheriff’s Police to strike up a conversation and discover he was carrying a loaded firearm, officials said Monday. He is at least the third person arrested by the agency for possessing a gun on CTA trains since its officers began patrolling Chicago’s rail lines late last month.

9 people attacked CTA passenger in the Loop, police say

April 20, 2026 7:09 PM CWBChicago

Chicago police are looking for nine people, including seven women, who attacked a passenger aboard a Red Line train in the Loop last week.

Month: April 2026