June 2026 - CWB Chicago

Purported Tren de Aragua member avoids prison after pleading guilty to selling rifles to undercover ATF agents

June 30, 2026 10:31 AM CWBChicago

A Venezuelan man whom prosecutors said was a suspected member of the Tren de Aragua street gang received an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to selling firearms last summer to undercover ATF agents in Chicago, court records show. But Jose Vasquez Hernandez, 31, did not spend any time in an actual prison once the state applied its standard 50% sentence reduction and gave him credit for time already served in the Cook County Jail.

Older drivers won’t need road test until they’re 87 under new Illinois law taking Wednesday

June 30, 2026 9:37 AM Capitol News Illinois

A new law taking effect tomorrow raises the age at which Illinois drivers must pass a road test to renew their license from 79 to 87.

$10K reward offered after CTA worker is killed in apparent carjacking outside 98th Street railyard entrance

June 30, 2026 8:23 AM CWBChicago

Police now believe the CTA worker found fatally shot outside the agency’s 98th Street railyard entrance early Monday was killed during a carjacking, and Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest or indictment of those responsible.

3 arrested after assaulting TV news crew on lakefront, threatening people with rifle in neighborhoods

June 30, 2026 7:21 AM Tim Hecke

Three men are in custody after a CBS2 reporting team was threatened and their news van was damaged near the Adler Planetarium on Monday afternoon, officials said. The men are also suspected of threatening other people with a rifle in other neighborhoods before and after the lakefront incident, according to an officer familiar with the investigation.

34 arrested during Chicago Pride Parade festivities, police say

June 29, 2026 1:05 PM Tim Hecke

Chicago police arrested 34 people during the 2026 Chicago Pride Parade and its aftermath in Boystown on Sunday night into the early hours of Monday, a CPD spokesperson said — a number that falls almost exactly in line with the long-term average recorded by CWB Chicago since we began tracking the event’s data in 2013.

‘I need those keys’: Chicago man gets 8-years for robbing postal worker while on electronic monitoring

June 29, 2026 12:12 PM CWBChicago

A Chicago man who robbed a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier of a master key while wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison, officials announced Monday.

DUI driver was seen drinking over a 12-hour period, including while working as a bartender, before fatal Loop crash

June 29, 2026 11:05 AM Tim Hecke

A Chicago man is detained after prosecutors said surveillance video showed him consuming alcohol at various times over 12 hours, including during a shift he worked as a bartender, before getting behind the wheel while intoxicated and plowing into a disabled car on the Kennedy Expressway, killing two people.

CTA rail employee found slain outside 98th Street yard in area no longer covered by ShotSpotter

June 29, 2026 9:58 AM Tim Hecke

A man identified in employment records as a CTA rail employee was found shot to death outside the agency’s 98th Street railyard entrance early Monday. Nobody reported the gunfire when it occurred, likely because the shooting took place on a remote overpass. However, that bridge was monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network until Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the system in 2024.

18-year-old with 11 pending juvenile cases robbed a Subway while on electronic monitoring, prosecutors say

June 28, 2026 7:20 PM Tim Hecke

A Chicago man who already had eleven open juvenile cases and was on electronic monitoring walked into a West Side Subway restaurant in May, threatened a cashier at gunpoint, jumped the counter, and fled with the cash register, prosecutors say.

Suburban man used Facebook to broker illegal gun sales, ATF says

June 28, 2026 3:10 PM Tim Hecke

Federal prosecutors have charged a suburban Stickney man with possessing and transferring a machine gun after they say he sold three firearms and a machine gun conversion device to undercover buyers during two transactions in May.

15-year-old and two men charged with murdering boys in Auburn Gresham apartment building

June 28, 2026 1:28 PM CWBChicago

A 15-year-old boy joined two adult men in carrying out a double murder that left two teenagers dead and another man wounded inside an Auburn Gresham home last autumn, according to prosecutors.

Gunman shoots man in parked car in West Rogers Park, may have targeted others in the area

June 28, 2026 11:26 AM CWBChicago

A man was wounded in a shooting while sitting in his parked car in West Rogers Park early Sunday, and police are investigating whether the gunman also fired at another nearby vehicle moments later.

Migrant who carried loaded gun, fake grenade onto CTA bus walks free after plea deal — now wanted on shoplifting case

June 28, 2026 10:39 AM CWBChicago

A Venezuelan migrant accused of carrying a loaded handgun and an inert grenade aboard a CTA bus has received a one-year prison sentence but will not serve any additional time behind bars. Now, Jose Yepes is again wanted by authorities after failing to appear in court this month in a separate shoplifting case that has been pending since 2024, according to court records.

Month: June 2026