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A Chicago man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at an off-duty Chicago police officer on the Stevenson Expressway last week.

A suburban man who fired a shotgun into a Chicago park early Thursday had five firearms, over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and handwritten notes about “recent mass shootings as well as critiques of the police involved in those shootings,” prosecutors said Friday.

Prosecutors say a man who was on bail for attempted murder, on bail for a separate gun case, and on bail for yet another gun and stolen motor vehicle case was found with a gun in a stolen car after he drove onto the curb while Chicago police were working a crime scene this week. 

A North Lawndale man has pleaded guilty to setting an occupied home on fire, a crime he repeatedly admitted to committing while live streaming footage of firefighters battling the blaze.

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James Murphy, one of Cook County’s most seasoned prosecutors, abruptly quit Friday and sent out a goodbye email that blasted Kim Foxx and her administration.

Prosecutors say the man who duct-taped a Walgreens employee to a chair during a robbery in Lincoln Square earlier this month is the boyfriend of one of the store’s employees.

An Indiana man who allegedly made a straw purchase of the gun that was used to kill Chicago Police Officer Ella French pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge on Wednesday morning.

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SUVs that Chicago police use to transport Mayor Lori Lightfoot around the city have racked up red light and speed camera tickets that aren’t being paid.

Prosecutors say a Chicago man on parole for shooting a man in the foot and on electronic monitoring for a pending felony gun charge left his home and carjacked a woman during her lunch break.

A 16-year-old boy who drove an accomplice to murder a man on the North Side on May 6 used the same gun to kill a pizza delivery driver on the South Side one day earlier, prosecutors said Friday.