Washington Heights

A 75-year-old man with a sterling record and a concealed carry license snapped on the night of March 7. In a 911 call, he identified himself and told the operator a chilling truth: he had just murdered his girlfriend of 25 years and her 71-year-old sister.

Chicago police say an elementary school girl was sexually assaulted as she walked to class Wednesday morning, and the assailant may be only 13 or 14 years old.

An Aurora man who lost control of his car while speeding away from a South Side street takeover, resulting in a fiery crash that killed three of his passengers, has been given a nine-year prison sentence.

Chicago’s police oversight agency has cleared a police officer who fatally shot a man after he tried to rob her of her firearm during an off-duty encounter outside her Washington Heights home, according to newly released records.

A 75-year-old Chicago man called 911 the night of March 7, identified himself, and told the operator he had just murdered his girlfriend of 25 years and her sister. When asked why, he allegedly replied, “They got on my m*********ing nerves.”

A man who skipped court in a violent suburban robbery case five years ago and then disappeared is back in custody, but only after prosecutors say he beat a 76-year-old man to death and then carjacked a vehicle with two children inside.

A Chicago man charged with carjacking after his victim pulled out a pistol and held him at gunpoint until police arrived received a 10-year prison sentence on Monday.

A would-be carjacker who failed to get away with the vehicle because he didn’t know how to operate BMW’s transmission received a 10-year prison sentence on Friday.

Nearly two years after a man allegedly admitted to driving a car that crashed and burst into flames, killing three people as he sped from a street takeover on the South Side, prosecutors have approved reckless homicide charges in the case.

A judge this week sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for murdering another man in a dispute over marijuana plus eight more years for shooting another man during a robbery—all while he was on bail for a felony case in 2021.

A downstate woman has been detained pending trial after prosecutors accused her of shooting a dozen rounds into an off-duty Chicago police officer’s home.

Officials say a South Side man murdered his girlfriend and then called 911, claiming the bullet that killed her had come through his home window—a story that fell apart when Chicago cops found a shell casing, a spent bullet, and a live bullet lying next to the woman’s body inside his house.