North Lawndale

A 22-time convicted felon added two more felony convictions to his record Thursday when he pleaded guilty to carjacking an SUV last year with a 7-month-old girl inside.

For the second time in less than a month, federal prosecutors have charged someone with pointing a laser at a police helicopter flying over Chicago.

A Chicago police officer is recovering after being struck by a squad car driven by his own district commander during a foot pursuit. The commander, however, told dispatchers the officer “tripped and ran into” the squad car.

A woman who is seven months pregnant struggled for at least three minutes to tell Chicago 911 operators she had been shot Friday night, according to records and radio transmissions reviewed by CWB Chicago. The emergency response was further delayed because nobody else reported the shooting and the local ShotSpotter network, which used to monitor the block for gunfire 24/7, was disconnected by Mayor Brandon Johnson in 2024.

A Venezuelan migrant who attacked a co-worker with a running concrete saw at a Chicago construction site has been sentenced to six years in prison, court records show.

A 19-year-old man has been given an eight-year sentence for shooting a woman in the back during a robbery while he had three felony cases pending in juvenile court.

A veteran Chicago police dispatcher was trapped in her wrecked car with nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae when a man and his girlfriend climbed inside and stole her driver’s license and cards, prosecutors say.

A garbage collector shot two men who tried to rob him outside a Chicago charter school last year, killing one and wounding the other. On Monday, the surviving robber, a Hammond, Indiana, man, received an eight-year sentence.

A man accused of taking a Lyft driver’s car on Chicago’s West Side had to ask the victim how to operate the stolen Honda before he and an accomplice could drive away, prosecutors said. Police later recovered the vehicle parked near the suspect’s home.

A 19-year-old Chicago man charged with robbing two food delivery drivers at gunpoint was already a wanted man at the time, court records show — he had vanished from a pending felony gun case weeks before the first alleged robbery.

A man who has “terrorized the community over the past 15 years,” according to a Cook County judge, is charged with sexually attacking two women at a CTA bus stop on the West Side.