River North

Chicago police have released surveillance images of the man who set a well-loved homeless man known as the “Walking Man” on fire in River North early Wednesday.

Chicago police are trying to track down a man who apparently pointed a gun at a TV news crew during a live broadcast in River North on Wednesday morning.

Joseph Kromelis, known affectionately as Chicago’s “Walking Man,” is hospitalized and critically injured after someone set him on fire as he slept near the Trump Tower loading dock in River North overnight.

A 75-year-old man is in critical condition after someone poured flammable liquid on him and set him on fire as he slept near the Trump Tower loading dock overnight. The attack was captured on video.

A woman who went out for a celebration with classmates in River North last summer was later sexually assaulted by at least two men in a hotel room, prosecutors said. DNA testing led to charges against one man this week.

Kevin Collins was charged with attempted murder for allegedly knocking his girlfriend unconscious and stabbing her with a knife in their River North hotel room last year. But prosecutors cut him a deal. They dropped the attempted murder case and he got 3 years for a lesser charge.

A suburban man was shot while driving in River North on Thursday evening, police said. Five people have been shot on the Near North Side since last Friday, three of them in River North. Both areas are experiencing a spike in shootings this year.

Two women were shot, one fatally, during an altercation on State Street in River North early Saturday, police said.

A man is in critical condition after he was shot during a confrontation in River North on Saturday evening, police said. He is the sixth person shot in the neighborhood this year — a pace that is well ahead of other recent years.

A 53-year-old man suffered a graze wound to his face after someone knocked on his hotel room door in River North on Sunday evening, police said.