Auburn Gresham

A felon on parole for illegal gun possession shot at four Chicago police officers who were sitting in marked patrol cars on the South Side early Monday, and the officers heard bullets “whizzing” past them as the gunman fired from behind a parked vehicle, prosecutors said Thursday.

A man who got a sweetheart plea deal for a serious gun case in December is accused of trying to kill four Chicago police officers Monday morning in the Gresham neighborhood.

A man is in custody after he allegedly ambushed Chicago police officers, opening fire on two squad cars as cops investigated a prostitution complaint in Gresham early Monday morning. The officers, who were not injured, did not return fire and successfully apprehended the gunman after a pursuit, CPD said.

A Chicago man accused of murdering his roommate last summer scrawled a prayer on their apartment wall asking Jesus to bless the dead man’s soul and then fled to Indiana, where he spontaneously confessed to tribal police officers inside the Four Winds Casino two days later, prosecutors said this week.

Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of masked gunmen who fatally shot a 26-year-old woman in a brazen daylight attack in Auburn Gresham on Wednesday afternoon.

Two boys, both 14-year-old, are charged with carjacking a Lyft driver at gunpoint and taking her vehicle on a cross-town joyride Tuesday night, according to Chicago police. CPD said both juveniles also had active arrest warrants at the time of their arrests.

A brazen daylight shooting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood left a woman dead and a man wounded after three gunmen opened fire on their vehicle Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police said.

The chairman of the police council tasked with improving policing in some of Chicago’s most violence-plagued neighborhoods has not shown up for work in nearly a year but he continues to collect his city paycheck, according to city officials and his fellow council members.

A carjacker who was abandoned by his accomplices as Chicago police arrived at the scene of a botched hijacking has been sentenced to six years in prison, but he’s not expected to spend a single day inside an actual prison.

Chicago police are searching for two men and a vehicle linked to a triple shooting outside St. Sabina Catholic Church on Sunday afternoon, the second major shooting this year outside the South Side church where one of the city’s most prominent anti-violence activists serves as senior pastor.

A 61-year-old man was found lying dead outside his Auburn Gresham home early Friday, the latest gunshot victim to go undiscovered in a neighborhood once monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter system.

A man was found shot to death inside a vehicle in Gresham on Friday night, but witnesses who heard the gunfire didn’t call police until they saw the man slumped over in his car about an hour later, according to an officer at the scene.