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A Chicago Public Schools teacher allegedly had a gun in his backpack as he headed to a flight at O’Hare on Thursday. But the bond court judge seemed to think some passengers have the right to bring guns onto commercial airliners.

Just four weeks after a judge ordered Jorge Aguilar to stay in his house on electronic monitoring to await trial on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Chicago police allegedly found him reclining in his car with a handgun on the floor and a Tupperware containing 50 grams of cocaine on his passenger seat, prosecutors said

A top CPD leader canceled days off for the city’s cops over the upcoming weekend, and sources indicate the reason is that positive COVID tests have decimated the department’s active force.

Less than 24 hours into the new year, Carlos Martinez became the first person accused of trying to shoot someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony

A Chicago man who is awaiting trial for two armed robberies and a separate felony gun case left his home while on electronic monitoring to carjack a woman at gunpoint on Halloween, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Just eight months after authorities released him early from prison on an attempted murder sentence he received for stabbing his girlfriend 17 times with a butcher knife, Peter Jones viciously attacked his new girlfriend with an axe on New Year’s Eve, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors gave Damien Stewart a very, very sweet deal for his 6th felony gun conviction in May. He didn’t spend a single night in prison for it. Friday, he was charged with having yet another gun. Welcome to Chicago.

Quincy Cole shot and killed his back seat passenger while trying to shoot someone in another car, prosecutors said. Cole was on bond for arson at the time.

A convicted felon charged last month with illegally possessing a handgun is now facing even more serious charges because he tried to flush a second handgun that cops didn’t know about down a police station toilet, according to prosecutors.

Giovanni Rodriguez has been charged with illegally carrying guns in Little Village three times since last June. But prosecutors dropped the first two cases.

Nokomis Jefferson was on bond for being a felon in possession of a firearm when he allegedly shot at and tried to kill two Chicago police officers on Christmas Eve.

Darius Dawson set his step-brother’s car on fire in this overgrown area along the Bishop Ford Freeway — with the step-brother’s body in the trunk, prosecutors say.