Two teenage boys were shot overnight in the 1400 block of North Fairfield Avenue. A 15-year-old was hospitalized in serious condition, while a 17-year-old was listed in fair condition, according to CPD
A man with an outstanding arrest warrant for skipping court in a stolen-vehicle case was brought before a judge who quickly released him again. Three days later, the man beat a stranger to death with a wooden board on a West Side street. This week, he received a 65 year sentence.
What took so long? A video of the 2022 killing of 32-year-old Corey Finley has been circulating online for more than 4 years. Now, CPD has finally released a video clip to the media and it’s asking the public to help identify the masked gunman.
Chicago police are looking for four people who broke into nine businesses during a fast-moving overnight spree that stretched from Lincoln Park to Humboldt Park early Tuesday, targeting cash registers, gaming machines and merchandise.
A Chicago police officer has been recommended for termination after COPA sustained allegations that he sexually assaulted his then-18-year-old girlfriend, provided her with alcohol, and later accessed the police report identifying him as the suspect.
One man was killed and 6 other people, including a 14-year-old boy, were wounded when multiple gunmen opened fire Sunday afternoon on a crowd in Humboldt Park, police said.
Chicago police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man who they say inappropriately touched a 10-year-old girl at the Humboldt Park swimming pool this month.
A string of armed robberies and carjackings swept across Humboldt Park, West Garfield Park and nearby neighborhoods Wednesday morning, with at least seven incidents reported in roughly an hour. The similarities have detectives watching for signs that a new robbery crew may be emerging in an area that endured years of nearly nightly holdup sprees.
Twelve people have been federally charged and more arrests could follow after a nearly two-year investigation into what prosecutors say was a large-scale open-air fentanyl and heroin market that operated “essentially dawn till dusk every day” on Chicago’s West Side.
A pair of alleged carjackers are being held in the Cook County jail after prosecutors said they made a spectacularly bad decision: trying to sell the hijacked car back to its owner just hours after taking it at gunpoint. Their plan unraveled when Chicago police squad cars happened to drive past as the cash-for-car exchange was underway and the victim decided to flag down the cops rather than pay money for his own car.
A suburban man who formed a burglary crew that specifically targeted high-end homes in Chicago to steal valuable jewelry, cash, and other property has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 14 residential break-ins. But records show he is expected to be released after serving less than half that time.
A man on parole for a gun conviction handed a pistol to a 10-year-old child during a road rage confrontation, then took the gun back and used it to kill the other driver in Humboldt Park, prosecutors say.
On Monday morning, a Humboldt Park resident looked out their front window to see one of those crews actively stealing airbags from a car in front of their home in broad daylight. And one of the thieves was openly carrying a firearm. You’ll see it in the video we’re about to show you.