Back of the Yards

Prosecutors have charged a man with committing a murder on Independence Day 2023 after Chicago cops painstakingly compiled video cellular phone location data that tracked him from Diversey Harbor to the crime scene, officials said.

A Chicago man has been given an 11-year sentence for carjacking a driver in November 2023, just one month after being arrested on a gun charge. Yenajae Liddell, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon in exchange for the sentence from Judge James Novy.

A security contractor who recently declared Chicago a “war zone” with a “massive gun problem” in a social media video has been charged with shooting a man in Back of the Yards on Christmas night.

A woman suffering from a gunshot wound flagged down a passerby for help in Back of the Yards last night. Police had received no calls of shots fired in the area, which was monitored by ShotSpotter detectors until the mayor pulled the plug on the system in September.

CHICAGO — A Venezuelan migrant is charged with attempted murder, accused of trying to shoot a co-worker who made a joke at his expense. “See how you die?” Jorber Pena Acosta allegedly asked the man before opening fire on him outside their workplace last Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors said Acosta, 26, the 29-year-old victim, and others

More than seven years after two Chicago police officers were shot while working in Back of the Yards, a second man was charged with the crime on Saturday.

At least two gunmen opened fire at a motorcycle gathering in Back of the Yards on Tuesday evening, leaving one man dead and five others injured. ShotSpotter provided multiple alerts from the shooting scene two minutes before 911 callers.