Belmont Cragin

A Hammond, Indiana, man whom Chicago police shot as he allegedly tried to run down an officer with a pickup truck outside a Belmont Cragin business last pleaded guilty to attempted murder on Tuesday.

A convenience store employee was ordered detained after allegedly shooting a customer during an argument over an unpaid balance of about 47 cents.

A 31-year-old Venezuelan man has been charged with attacking an 82-year-old business owner and stealing about $11,000 from him in Belmont Cragin.

A Northwest Side man who has been arrested five times this year is now charged with first-degree murder, accused of beating a homeless man to death in Belmont Cragin just two days after being removed from electronic monitoring.

A judge has sentenced a 35-year-old man to 14 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in Belmont Cragin in 2024.

A 21-year-old Chicago man who livestreamed himself riding through Riis Park while showing off a loaded handgun equipped with an illegal machine gun conversion device was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.

A Mexican national who was previously deported from the United States returned illegally, then tried to launch a drug-and-guns business relationship with a stranger he met in a Chicago truck dealership parking lot by offering to sell him a pound of methamphetamine and an AK-47, according to federal court records. That stranger turned out to be a federal informant.

The FBI has doubled its reward to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Milwaukee Kings street gang member accused of murdering a 19-year-old National Guardsman in Belmont Cragin on the Fourth of July 2021. The development comes nearly five years after local prosecutors declined to approve murder charges in the case.

A 22-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a 2022 killing in which prosecutors say the victim was drawn into a deadly trap under the guise of a Facebook gun deal.

A Venezuelan migrant is charged with first-degree murder, accused of fatally stabbing a church volunteer who repeatedly tried to help as he struggled with homelessness upon arriving in Chicago, prosecutors say.

A licensed concealed carry holder shot an armed man who tried to rob him early Tuesday morning on the Northwest Side, according to Chicago police, and officers tracked one of the suspects to his home by following a trail of blood.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for beating another man to death with a Grey Goose vodka bottle during a robbery on the Northwest Side.

Chicago police are looking for a man who fired shots toward an occupied vehicle in Belmont Cragin last week. The community alert, issued by CPD on Christmas Day, included photos of the suspect.