Wicker Park
Month: June 2026
Citywide
Father’s Day weekend shootings soar 105% in Chicago as city sees bloodiest day since 2024
The Father’s Day weekend in Chicago saw 42 people shot or killed citywide, a 100% increase from the same weekend last year, according to preliminary reports. The victim total likely remained below 50 because of rainy weather that moved into the area, as no shootings were reported after 6:15 a.m. Sunday.
West Garfield Park
Gunshot victim found lying on West Side street that used to be monitored by ShotSpotter
A 20-year-old man was found critically wounded with a gunshot to the head on Chicago’s West Side early Saturday, and police say there were no calls of shots fired before he was found — a scenario that has become familiar since Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the city’s gunfire detection network nearly two years ago.
Gold Coast
CTA
East Garfield Park
CTA
Roseland
West Loop
Citywide
Lawmaker says Pritzker should condemn ‘MAGA hate’ after anti-Trump cross-burning in Grant Park
An Illinois state representative says Gov. JB Pritzker should address the political motivations behind a Grant Park cross burning after the University of Illinois Chicago student accused in the incident said it was intended as a protest against the Trump administration and “MAGA Christian nationalist supporters,” not Black people.
Roseland
Drive-by gunmen fire more than 100 rounds at a crowd in Roseland, injuring 14
At least two drive-by gunmen sprayed more than 100 bullets into a large crowd gathered outside in Roseland late Friday, leaving 13 people wounded in a mass shooting that launched a violent start to Father’s Day weekend in Chicago. By sunrise Saturday, Chicago had already recorded more shooting victims than were reported during the entire Father’s Day weekend last year.
Citywide
Feds drop charges after video contradicts original account of suspect’s shooting
Federal prosecutors abruptly dropped charges Thursday against three men accused of participating in an attempted robbery of an undercover ATF gun-buying operation in south suburban Country Club Hills after video appeared to contradict portions of the government’s account of what led a federal task force officer to shoot one of the accused men.
Citywide
1-year-old’s drug overdose death ruled homicide, second Chicago child to OD in less than a year
A 1-year-old boy found unresponsive in an East Garfield Park apartment this spring died from a drug overdose that the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has now ruled a homicide. He is the second young child in Chicago to be the victim of a drug-induced homicide since July, though authorities have not filed charges in either case.