Near West Side

A University of Illinois Chicago student was arrested Wednesday after allegedly trying to deploy an incendiary device and stab another student with a large knife inside Student Center East, a busy campus building. No injuries were reported.

A Chicago man who robbed a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier of a master key while wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison, officials announced Monday.

A Chicago man who already had eleven open juvenile cases and was on electronic monitoring walked into a West Side Subway restaurant in May, threatened a cashier at gunpoint, jumped the counter, and fled with the cash register, prosecutors say.

A respected Chicago rehabilitation doctor suffered catastrophic injuries and may have lost the career he devoted to helping others when a driver ran a red light, struck him as he rode his bicycle, then fled the scene, prosecutors say. More than seven months later, prosecutors have charged the man they say was behind the wheel: 35-year-old Tavis Roark.

An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors said he drove into Chicago police officers not once, not twice, but three separate times, injuring five cops and knocking one of them unconscious as they tried to disperse a massive street gathering on the Near West Side early Sunday.

An 18-year-old suburban man is charged with trying to kill five Chicago police officers by striking them with a car as CPD was dispersing a large crowd on the Near West Side early Sunday morning.

Witnesses intervened after a convicted felon attacked and sexually abused a woman aboard a CTA bus on the Near West Side this week, Chicago police said.

A driver plowed into a crowd of people on the Near West Side early Sunday, injuring five Chicago Police officers and at least one bystander, according to witnesses and preliminary information gathered at the scene. At least 14 people were arrested during the incident, including the driver and two of his passengers, sources said. So far, CPD has not issued any statements about what happened.

Facial recognition technology helped Chicago police identify the man who murdered a street pastor who regularly rode CTA trains at night to offer homeless riders a place to sleep, prosecutors say. The arrest comes as some lawmakers are trying to outlaw the use of facial recognition by state and local law enforcement agencies across Illinois.

Two men face felony charges for allegedly threatening a city work crew that was installing a Chicago Police Department surveillance camera near a neighborhood playground, the same playground where prosecutors say officers found the men carrying guns just 20 minutes later.