South Shore

An Uber driver was shot during an attempted robbery in South Shore early Sunday, and a woman who was sharing the ride with the gunman claims she ran into another armed robbery as she tried to escape the gunfire.

A man who got into a shootout with Chicago police officers during a hostage standoff in South Shore has been sentenced to 100 years in prison after a jury convicted him of 10 felony counts. But Steven Wade, 46, may face even more prison time. Prosecutors say he killed a woman in the hours before the standoff began, and that case remains pending.

A concealed carry holder shot a man who opened the window screen of her South Shore home during a burglary attempt early Tuesday morning, Chicago police said.

A 10-time convicted felon who was paroled in January is accused of burglarizing a South Shore apartment and jumping from a 3rd-floor window to escape police.

A man shot a Chicago police officer who stopped him for driving what officials described as a “homemade” vehicle in South Shore on Friday evening, prompting the officer to return fire and critically injure the suspect.

A woman was sexually assaulted and robbed while jogging along a lakefront trail in the South Chicago neighborhood on Saturday morning, police said.

A 51-year-old Chicago man kidnapped a 12-year-old girl as she walked to a corner store and raped her in his home, only to be discovered when the Cook County Sheriff’s Office showed up to evict him, prosecutors said.

A concealed carry holder pulled a gun on children outside a Chicago elementary school and threatened to “shoot this b**** up” because she thought one of the students had hit her son, who also attends the school, prosecutors said.

A South Shore father has pleaded guilty to trying to drown his 2-year-old son in a bathtub, a crime that prosecutors said was stopped only because a concerned Lyft driver called 911, prompting Chicago police officers to force their way into the apartment and save the boy.

A Chicago man already on pretrial release shot a 20-year-old woman in the face and when cops tracked him down, they found a cut-off ankle monitor and two guns in his apartment, prosecutors said

Prosecutors say a fried chicken restaurant drive-thru worker opened fire on a customer’s car because they wanted to split the check after he had already rung up the purchase.

A Chicago man allegedly fired a handgun at an armored SWAT vehicle during an hours-long standoff that began with a domestic dispute and ended with his arrest after he barricaded himself inside a bedroom, according to court documents.