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Chicago police and a group of violent protesters clashed in Grant Park as demonstrators tried to pull down the Christopher Columbus statue Friday evening.

Michael Garrett allegedly touched two girls who were with adults on the State Street shopping district, police said.

A 15-year-old boy is in good condition after a bullet grazed his head Tuesday evening when shots were fired in Grant Park, according to Chicago police. The boy does not appear to be the intended target.

An on-duty, armed Walgreens security guard shot a man in the Loop this weekend during a dispute over a gift card, prosecutors said Tuesday. The guard is not licensed to carry a firearm and is awaiting trial for allegedly breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and beating her with a baseball bat

Chicago police caught a burglar red-handed as he tried to leave a Loop drugstore with thousands of dollars worth of inventory this weekend, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Armando Munoz Jr. fired a gun at an off-duty DePaul University guard who was driving to work in the Loop.

Less than a year ago, the accused woman was portrayed in a media report as a shining example of how electronic monitoring “exacerbates existing bias in the criminal legal system.” Needless to say, she was not pleased to hear on Saturday that she would be going onto electronic monitoring again.