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Teacher charged with beating, choking 12-year-old is sixth CPS employee accused of assaulting students this school year

April 20, 2026 3:04 PM Tim Hecke

A Chicago Public Schools teacher is accused of beating and choking a 12-year-old student inside a South Side classroom, making her at least the sixth CPS employee charged this school year with physically or sexually assaulting students.

Man gets 24 years for library attack that left two victims with skull fractures

April 13, 2026 7:34 AM Tim Hecke

A man who randomly and violently attacked a 4-year-old boy at the Belmont Brown Line station in Lakeview in 2021 is now going to prison for 24 years for another random attack: the horrific beating of two workers and a 77-year-old patron at a Chicago Public Library branch.

Back-to-back armed carjackings earn two Chicago men lengthy federal sentences

November 5, 2025 6:53 PM Tim Hecke

Two men who terrorized Chicago residents in a pair of armed carjackings have been sentenced to long federal prison terms, court records show. Marquell Davis, 23, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and Ramone Bradley, 27, received nine years for their roles in two violent carjackings they allegedly carried out with a third man, Edmund Singleton, whose case remains pending.

Driver who killed 2 in fiery LSD crash gets probation, community service

October 31, 2025 5:59 AM CWBChicago

A man convicted of killing two people in a fiery crash while speeding on Lake Shore Drive two years ago has been sentenced to probation and extensive community service, according to court records.

Phone thieves prowling Sox-35th Red Line station, CPD warns

July 21, 2025 10:31 AM CWBChicago

Police say a pair of thieves snatched phones right out of commuters’ hands at the 35th Street station on back-to-back mornings in late June. CPD has issued a community alert.

8-year-old shot in road rage altercation, gunman at large

June 25, 2025 8:06 AM CWBChicago

An 8-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting stemming from a road rage dispute on Chicago’s South Side late Tuesday night, according to the Chicago Police Department.

Discarded AirTag helps cops solve dating app robbery

June 7, 2025 12:52 PM CWBChicago

A man faces armed robbery and firearm charges after Chicago police detectives found an AirTag belonging to the victim near his home and video of him trying to use the victim’s stolen credit cards at a gas station, prosecutors said this week.

Sunshine brings crowds, guns to Chicago’s lakefront

June 4, 2025 6:55 PM Tim Hecke

Sun’s out, guns out, the saying goes and Monday’s beautiful weather apparently brought plenty of guns to Chicago’s lakefront. Chicago police officers arrested at least three people for allegedly possessing firearms at the lakefront between noon and 10 p.m., according to CPD and court records.

Fake explosives draw bomb squad response to Chicago apartment building

January 13, 2025 3:58 PM CWBChicago

A man is in custody after a maintenance worker allegedly found a rifle, several IDs, and what appeared to be bomb-making materials inside his Near South Side apartment on Monday morning. The Chicago Police Bomb Squad joined the response and determined the scene was safe.

2 charged with robbing NYC man on Red Line train; ‘Do you want to get shot?’

November 25, 2024 11:59 AM CWBChicago

Two men have been charged with robbing a New York City man aboard a Red Line train this month. One of them was previously accused of participating in a robbery attempt that was so violent, that the victim jumped from a moving Red Line train to get away.

Feds slap 3 men with carjacking charges. 2 face the possibility of life in prison.

October 29, 2024 7:11 PM CWBChicago

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday slapped three men with carjacking charges, saying they took a man’s car at gunpoint from a Far South Side gas station. Two of the men are accused of trying to carjack another driver but they couldn’t figure out how to operate the victim’s vehicle.

Drunk driver in fatal wrong-way crash had alcohol level nearly 3x legal limit, prosecutors say

October 3, 2024 8:08 PM CWBChicago

The motorist responsible for a fatal wrong-way crash on Lake Shore Drive was driving on a revoked license with a blood alcohol level about three times the legal limit, prosecutors said in court filings.

Cops look for gunman who robbed victim at Sox-35th Red Line station

August 30, 2024 10:55 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are asking for help as they try to identify yet another robbery suspect who’s prowling the CTA.

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