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A California man who was afraid to fly due to COVID-19 lived inside the secure area of an O’Hare International Airport terminal for nearly three months before being caught on Saturday, prosecutors said.

A Lakeview High School student chased down and fatally shot a man after he could not operate the victim’s SUV during a carjacking attempt in Bridgeport last month, prosecutors said.

Police announced three juveniles have been charged separately with three different carjackings, including one that left a man fatally shot. Two are 16, one is 13.

Elliott Scott stole a towing company’s truck and then called 911 himself because he was upset that the truck’s driver dared to pull a gun on him, prosecutors said.

If signed by Gov. JB Pritzker,Illinois will no longer hold criminal defendants on monetary bail unless they are deemed a threat to the community.

The operators of Second City Cop, a long-running and widely-read blog about Chicago policing, confirmed Tuesday night that they independently decided to cease publication over the weekend.

A 16-year-old on Monday became the first person to be charged with shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for another serious felony.

A long-running blog about Chicago policing is no longer visible to the public, and many people want to know what’s going on. We have no idea.