Chicago police officers shot and killed a man who advanced toward them while armed with a knife early Friday, according to a statement issued by the police department.
Armed robbers kidnapped a man from in front of his West Side home and forced him to withdraw money from an ATM early Saturday morning. The abduction, one of several robberies reported in the area around the same time, was caught on video.
The man prosecutors said may have been responsible for more than 20 robberies from Little Village to the North Side has been given an 18-year sentence.
Prosecutors have charged a man with fatally shooting a 17-year-old high school soccer team captain as the victim drove home from practice with two friends this summer.
Yet another murder victim has been found lying alone on a street previously monitored by the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system. He is at least the third person found fatally shot without any 911 calls reporting gunfire since Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city’s relationship with ShotSpotter on September 22.
A Chicago man faces robbery charges for allegedly mugging a woman as she took out the trash after police found his name on a receipt someone dropped at the crime scene.
ShotSpotter gunfire detectors earned their keep on Saturday night, pinpointing the location of a mass shooting in Little Village before any 911 calls were received and sending cops to a second “shots fired” incident that ended with a suspect in custody.
A man recently charged with trying to sexually assault a convenience store worker in Logan Square on August 13 is now charged with burglarizing a Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in July.
Prosecutors have charged a man with setting a Little Village apartment building on fire, badly injuring a woman who was inside. A Chicago firefighter was also injured while fighting the blaze.