East Side

A woman initially accused of trying to murder a Chicago police officer during a 2023 South Side confrontation has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and been sentenced to seven years.

A Venezuelan migrant is accused of murdering his estranged wife in front of their children during a violent domestic attack on the Southeast Side. Prosecutors say the couple’s 12-year-old daughter secretly used her younger sibling’s hidden phone to call for help, sending frantic messages that guided police to the apartment moments before gunfire erupted inside.

A passerby found a woman fatally shot in a Far South Side alley on Sunday morning. The woman, who remained unidentified as of Monday morning, had been shot twice in the head, according to Chicago police.

A former Chicago Public Schools security guard is charged with sexually assaulting two female students in her home while her husband was dying of colon cancer, prosecutors said.

A 36-year-old man is behind bars after prosecutors said he randomly shot another man on the Far South Side this spring, only to be caught when the victim recently spotted him posting flyers for a missing dog.

A man who got shot when he unwisely opened fire on a concealed carry holder’s car at a Chicago McDonald’s has been given an eight-year prison sentence.

Passersby reported finding a man struck by a car in an East Side intersection overnight. He had, in fact, been shot and his vehicle was overhead, on the Chicago Skyway. The neighborhood where the murder occurred used to be served by ShotSpotter.

A woman was found shot to death in a South Side alley on Saturday morning after a resident called 911 because her body had been in the same place for about two days.