Uptown

An arsonist set three fires Friday morning in the stairwell of an Uptown high-rise condo building, police said. No injuries.

The Uptown man who was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting on Friday afternoon was ordered held without bail on Saturday after prosecutors said police found a handgun in his jacket pocket at the crime scene.

The 23-year-old man who was critically wounded in an Uptown drive-by shooting had a gun in his pocket, a source said. He been arrested for carrying illegal guns in the neighborhood twice since 2019.

A North Side man has been sentenced to probation for attacking and robbing a man who asked him to maintain social distancing as they stood inside an Uptown sandwich shop during the early days of the COVID pandemic.

Police are looking for the man who stole an Amazon truck in Uptown on Thursday afternoon.

Two men are dead after someone shot into their car from another vehicle as they traveled along Wilson Avenue in Uptown on Thursday evening.

A Chicago Public Schools substitute teacher was charged with sexual exploitation of a child Saturday after three of his students allegedly accused him of exhibiting sexual behavior in their North Side elementary school classroom.

A 16-time convicted felon who was shot in the butt while burglarizing an Uptown home in 2019 has been sentenced to six years in prison.