Boystown

Prosecutors say a man dropped a loaded firearm inside an Uber in Boystown and then ditched a second gun in the back of a taxi when police approached him moments later on Halsted Street.

A Chicago man on bail for a felony gun case brought a firearm into a Boystown bar over the weekend and got caught because witnesses saw him drop the gun on the floor over and over again, prosecutors said.

Two young men found dead in a Boystown alley this summer died from accidental overdoses of cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A man who allegedly held a transgender woman against her will and sexually assaulted her in a Boystown gangway has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.

Two men were found dead and a woman was found unresponsive in a Boystown alley Thursday morning. Police are conducting a death investigation, but a drug overdose is suspected, officials said.