Dunning

Prosecutors have charged a man with repeatedly trying to lure a 15-year-old girl into his car as she waited for a bus ride home from school on the Northwest Side last month. The girl calmly recorded him with her phone, giving Chicago police an image that became the centerpiece of a community alert seeking to identify him.

Chicago police are asking the public to remain vigilant after a man allegedly tried to persuade a 15-year-old girl to get into his car as she waited for a bus on the Northwest Side Thursday afternoon. The girl handled the situation calmly, capturing video and audio of the man during one of his alleged attempts to persuade her to get into the vehicle.

A man with a long, violent criminal history who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attacking a 94-year-old woman during a home invasion in 2016, but was released after serving less than half of that sentence, is now accused of attacking and robbing two more women in their 60s on the Northwest Side.

A Chicago man who avoided serving any prison time after pleading guilty to a felony gun case in March is now behind bars after prosecutors said he committed two residential burglaries while on parole— and while wearing an Illinois Department of Corrections ankle monitor.

Chicago police are asking for the public’s help identifying four men caught on camera near the scene of a daylight double murder that shattered the usual calm of a Northwest Side block last week.

Two men were shot and killed Thursday afternoon in a quiet Northwest Side neighborhood, bringing a rare burst of violence to a block in the Dunning community area that has been largely untouched by violent crime for decades, according to Chicago police.

A 40-year-old man was shot multiple times inside a residence on Chicago’s Northwest Side Sunday afternoon, and police say they are working to determine what led up to the shooting.

Chicago police are warning residents about an armed robber who followed women into garages and vestibules during two attacks on the Northwest Side.

A judge has ordered the detention of a Lyft driver accused of sexually assaulting a passenger inside his car on New Year’s Eve 2023. Prosecutors say he drove off-route, trapped the woman, and sexually assaulted her on the Northwest Side.

U.S. Postal Inspectors have arrested a man for possessing a mail carrier’s master key and stealing letters from a mailbox on the Northwest Side. Chicago police helped postal inspectors detain Donald Hill, 35, in the 6900 block of West Belmont around 5:40 a.m. last Thursday, March 20, according to a CPD report.

A judge this week sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for beating an acquaintance to death with a pipe inside a Northwest Side home where they sometimes went to do drugs. Lukasz Wiercioch