Uptown

A 3rd-degree black belt jiu-jitsu instructor handily pinned a man who allegedly shoplifted and battered a 7-Eleven employee in Uptown.

Police are investigating after a man was stabbed in the chest during a fight near the Wilson CTA station Thursday evening.

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a woman with robbing a beachgoer as he walked home from Montrose Beach over the holiday weekend. But her boyfriend, who allegedly stabbed the victim during the robbery, remains on the loose.

An Uptown woman with PCP in her system killed her 8-year-old daughter this week and told police she did it because she felt like the girl didn’t love her anymore, prosecutors said Friday.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office has ruled that an 8-year-old girl’s death in Uptown this week was a homicide.

A 7-year-old boy was struck by a bullet fragment when a gun “accidentally discharged” while inside another student’s backpack at Walt Disney Magnet School, 4140 North Marine Drive, in Uptown on Tuesday morning.