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A North Side woman who has 12 shoplifting convictions in her background shoplifted 18 more times in Chicago while on bail for a pending shoplifting case, prosecutors alleged Friday. 

Two sisters were struck by gunfire on the Division Street bar strip early Saturday, according to information from Chicago police and sources.

A Chicago Police Department supervisor on Saturday ordered patrol units to stop pursuing a car that officers saw being used by three gunmen in a murder just minutes earlier.

A group of armed young men committed a series of at least nine robberies and carjackings in about 70 minutes Saturday morning, taking cars and then dumping them as they committed more crimes across Chicago and back.

For the second time in a month, Cook County’s sheriff and chief judge are being sued by the survivors of a murder victim who was allegedly killed by people who were on electronic monitoring for pending felony cases.

A 19-year-old man who has three felony juvenile cases pending was shot three times by a concealed carry holder after he opened fire on the man’s car in a McDonald’s parking lot Tuesday, prosecutors said.

Jabari Edwards is charged with shooting a Chicago police officer during a traffic stop — just four months after prosecutors dropped a felony gun case he was facing.

Major crime categories are at five-year highs across the lakefront police districts on Chicago’s North Side. Downtown is worse. And it’s not much better inland.

After a man climbed into the operator’s cabin of a CTA train with passengers aboard, the Chicago Police Department needed 15 minutes to find a cop to handle the situation.

After prosecutors recently filed hate crime charges against a Portage Park man for allegedly painting swastikas and racist prison gang symbols on two businesses, we decided to check court records to see how some other Chicago hate crime cases were progressing.

Jamari Terry is accused of shooting a man five times just days after appearing in court for a felony narcotics case.

A Cook County jail inmate killed his cellmate in a violent hands-on attack last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Raymond Montoya, 26, was ordered held without bail on a charge of first-degree murder.