Garfield Ridge

A veteran Chicago police sergeant was caught on video threatening a group of teenagers during an off-duty confrontation in Garfield Ridge, then allegedly punched a 17-year-old girl in the head when she kept recording him, prosecutors say. CWBChicago first reported on the confrontation and published the video on August 10, the day after it happened. Now, charges are filed.

A suburban man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal Thanksgiving Day slaying of a man in Garfield Ridge, a killing prosecutors say stemmed from suspicions that the victim was pulling on car doors in the neighborhood.

A man was shot and killed in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood shortly before midnight on Thanksgiving, but no one called 911 for about ten minutes after the gunfire, according to Chicago police. The neighborhood was served by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system for years until Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected it in September 2024.

A Chicago man who prosecutors say sped through a stop sign, fatally struck an 81-year-old bicyclist, and then fled the scene is facing charges but will remain free while awaiting trial.

A California man faces felony charges for allegedly stealing a woman’s phone as they prepared to board a flight at Midway International Airport.

The man prosecutors said carried 62 pounds of suspected cocaine worth $3.5 million in his luggage at Midway International Airport has been given a seven-year prison sentence.

A female carjacker took a woman’s car in Garfield Ridge and then stabbed a man who tried to help her after she crashed the hijacked SUV a few blocks away, Chicago police said Thursday morning. Fire department personnel pinned the hijacker at the crash scene and held her until cops arrived.