The man accused of attacking and sexually assaulting a woman at a Northwest Side forest preserve on May 23 has been linked to the crime by DNA evidence that prosecutors say places him at the scene at odds of 14 septillion to one.
A Northwest Side man is accused of launching a lucrative street-level drug operation in grocery store parking lots and selling a firearm to an undercover officer, beginning just one day after he pleaded guilty in an unrelated felony case and was given a chance to keep the charge off his record.
A pizza delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint by three suspects in the 5800 block of North Bernard Street on Friday night. The robbery unfolded at approximately 9:30 p.m. when the driver arrived with a delivery order from a Rogers Park pizzeria.
Chicago police are investigating a series of vehicle burglaries and criminal damage incidents targeting work vans in the North Park and Irving Park neighborhoods. CPD said the burglars are all armed with handguns.
A community safety liaison was beaten and robbed by a group of people as he patrolled Gompers Park on the Northwest Side, prosecutors said as they filed charges against a man accused of participating in the beating.
A federal judge has sentenced a man to 50 years in prison for committing a string of violent kidnappings in the city and suburbs nearly six years ago. Sedgwick Williams, 48, worked with at least four accomplices, three of whom are awaiting sentencing and a fourth who has since died.
CHICAGO — Prosecutors are accusing a man of posing as an exterminator to steal property from an elderly couple’s home on the Far North Side. So-called “ruse burglars” pose as utility crews, cops, city inspectors, and other service workers to gain access to homes. They usually target older senior citizens, who may be more trusting or
A Mather High School student is charged with shooting another student on the Northwest Side two weeks ago. Uriel Arteaga, 17, was ordered detained as a public safety risk by Judge Antara Rivera.