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Prosecutors have filed charges in two unrelated murders that occurred on opposite sides of the city Tuesday night. Both of the accused are scheduled to appear for detention hearings later today at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
A Waukegan man who allegedly used the Grindr gay dating app to lure victims into armed robbery ambushes in Rogers Park and Cicero is now charged with committing three similar crimes in Chicago.
A suburban Christian school teacher has been jailed after prosecutors accused him of using the gay dating app Grindr to target a man for a violent home invasion. Chicago police believe the man is responsible for similar crimes in the city.
A 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death in the Loop on Tuesday night, the third stabbing this week that Chicago police believe is linked to a large group of people who regularly loiter near the Harold Washington Library, according to a law enforcement source.
Prosecutors say Angel Tanguma carjacked a driver at gunpoint inside a South Loop parking garage on September 21—one month after a judge released him on an ankle monitor to await trial for allegedly carrying a gun in the neighborhood.
A career burglar who recently served eight years for burglarizing a Chicago liquor store of cash and 19 packs of Newport cigarettes is now facing the possibility of more prison time. Prosecutors say he took 16 packs of Newport cigarettes during a burglary at a West Loop Walgreens.
A Villa Park man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for a double-shooting that left a downtown Chicago nightclub bouncer dead and one of the club’s owners injured in 2019.
A gunman who opened fire after emerging from an alley left two people injured near the Argyle Red Line station on Monday morning, according to Chicago police.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has concluded its investigation of the death of Noah Enos, the 26-year-old man found dead in the Chicago River after attending a concert at the Salt Shed in June.
Chicago cops are hitting the streets with some old-fashioned legwork to help spread the word about recent robberies on the DePaul University campus in Lincoln Park.