Roseland

A Chicago man who helped rob an electrical work crew at gunpoint of $25,000 in equipment — while on parole for participating in a $46,000 Prada store heist — was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

A Venezuelan migrant has been ordered detained after prosecutors accused him of dragging a Chicago police officer with a car during a South Side traffic stop, then biting and punching officers while threatening to kill one of them.

Chicago police have released surveillance video of a man they believe is responsible for the fatal shooting and carjacking of CTA worker Thomas “Kevin” Barlow outside the agency’s 98th Street Railyard entrance on State Street last week.

Police now believe the CTA worker found fatally shot outside the agency’s 98th Street railyard entrance early Monday was killed during a carjacking, and Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest or indictment of those responsible.

A man identified in employment records as a CTA rail employee was found shot to death outside the agency’s 98th Street railyard entrance early Monday. Nobody reported the gunfire when it occurred, likely because the shooting took place on a remote overpass. However, that bridge was monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network until Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the system in 2024.

A Chicago man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to kill a fellow halfway house resident because the victim was gay, Cook County prosecutors say.

A Chicago man is facing armed robbery charges after prosecutors said he helped a friend rob a FedEx driver while wearing a GPS-enabled electronic monitoring bracelet. Now, authorities are using location data from the ankle monitor to place him at the scene of the crime while it was unfolding.

At least two drive-by gunmen sprayed more than 100 bullets into a large crowd gathered outside in Roseland late Friday, leaving 13 people wounded in a mass shooting that launched a violent start to Father’s Day weekend in Chicago. By sunrise Saturday, Chicago had already recorded more shooting victims than were reported during the entire Father’s Day weekend last year.

A Cook County judge on Friday found a Chicago man not guilty by reason of insanity on all charges stemming from a 2022 home invasion in which he held a woman at knifepoint before stabbing a police officer who came to rescue her. The officer shot him.

The man in the next bed at a Chicago halfway house allegedly heard Wesley Gritmacker, 38, talking on a phone he was not supposed to have, whispering things to a girl in Oklahoma he called “sexy” and his “love,” and at one point saying something to the effect of “when you turn 16.” The roommate took notes on what he was hearing and later handed them over to investigators.

Everybody hates when the FedEx driver skips their stop. Prosecutors say Dylan Longstreet did something about it. A whole lotta something.

A 66-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder as a juvenile 50 years ago is now accused of beating and stabbing his 88-year-old mother to death and hiding her body behind a bookcase in the basement of their Far South Side home.