Loop

A Chicago man has been sentenced to three years in prison for battering an off-duty cop and biting a nipple off of the officer’s friend during a road rage incident on Lake Shore Drive last summer.

Two men and a 12-year-old robbed an all-night store directly across the street from the federal jail in Chicago’s Loop, then sat on nearby CTA station steps to count the money they got while security cameras recorded them, prosecutors said Wednesday.

At least two people were shot in separate incidents in the Loop as revelers filled the Chicago’s downtown area to celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day. At times, members of the crowd overwhelmed Chicago police.

One of two men who robbed and fatally stabbed a restaurant chef heading home from work in the Loop last week allegedly told police the victim “might still be alive” if he hadn’t tried to protect himself, prosecutors allege.