Englewood

A group of Gangster Disciples imported a hitman from their Minneapolis faction to Chicago aboard a Greyhound bus, had him kill a man over a $3,000 drug debt, and sent him home before midnight, prosecutors alleged Friday.

A Chicago man who was wearing an ankle monitor for a pending sexual assault case when his 13-year-old nephew accidentally shot himself to death while handling a gun in his home has been given a 10-year sentence, court records show.

A Venezuelan man accused of killing a 25-year-old man in front of two witnesses as he pleaded for his life was sentenced to 33 years in prison Wednesday, according to court records.

The founder of one of Chicago’s most high-profile youth violence prevention groups, who also works as a Chicago Public Schools counseling assistant, is sitting in the Cook County Jail after being charged with criminal sexual assault and grooming involving two 14-year-old girls.

A Chicago man who prosecutors said was under the influence of PCP when he ran a red light, slammed into another vehicle, and then plowed into a CTA bus stop, leaving two people with catastrophic injuries, has been sentenced to four years in prison, court records show.

A Chicago man who fired at an occupied minivan during a gunfight at a South Side gas station, leaving a bystander injured, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison.

A rolling gunbattle between the occupants of two cars left a woman critically injured as she sat at a CTA bus stop in Englewood on Tuesday night, Chicago police said. But a witness provided cops with a completely different version of events.

A Chicago man will spend years in prison for carjacking a grandmother at gunpoint while her 6-year-old grandson stood nearby during a shopping trip to a South Side grocery store.

A man who skipped court in a felony gun case shot and killed another man before authorities caught up with him four months later, officials now say. He is the 39th person charged with killing or trying to kill someone in Chicago during 2024 while on felony pretrial release.

A non-compliant sex offender with two active warrants, now accused of trying to murder a Chicago Police Officer, bragged to cops who arrested him that he just got out of prison for beating other police officers, prosecutors say.

A driver fled after striking two sisters, a 6-year-old and a 15-year-old, as they walked to school in Englewood on Friday morning, and Chicago police are asking for the public’s help locating the vehicle and its driver.

A special education assistant at a South Side elementary school has been charged with aggravated battery of a child after prosecutors said she placed an 8-year-old student in a chokehold and threw him to the lunchroom floor, causing serious injuries.

A church deacon who robbed a man at gunpoint during a Grindr hookup in Englewood in 2023 has been sentenced to eight years in prison.