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Aldermen speak out as mass shooting victims are identified, video emerges

May 20, 2022 CWBChicago

Authorities have identified the two men killed in a mass shooting near the Chicago Red Line station on Thursday evening. Meanwhile, two local aldermen railed against downtown’s continuing violent crime problem as a low-quality video of the shooting emerged online.

Top cop offers explanation of mass shooting near Mag Mile — but CPD radio transmissions offer a different tale (audio)

May 20, 2022 CWBChicago

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown gave the city’s first official version of Thursday night’s mass shooting near the intersection of Chicago and State. But may of Brown’s talking points don’t align with the local police district’s radio transmissions.

Cops seek 3 men who attacked, robbed 63-year-old man at Loop Brown Line station

May 20, 2022 CWBChicago

Police are looking for looking for three offenders who battered and robbed a 63-year-old man at the Washington-Wells Brown Line station on Thursday morning.

Crime reports are at new highs while police staffing is at 5-year-lows across Chicago’s downtown and North Side: data

May 20, 2022 CWBChicago

Across Chicago’s downtown and North Side, every police district’s staffing levels are at 5-year lows while major crime reports are setting new highs. Here’s what the numbers show.

New: Mass shooting near the Magnificent Mile followed reports of teens fighting, another shooting nearby

May 20, 2022 CWBChicago

A mass shooting that left at least 2 dead and 8 injured near the Chicago Red Line station on Thursday evening unfolded less than an hour after a series of disturbances involving groups of people in the area.

Chaotic shooting leaves at least 2 dead, 8 more injured on Near North Side

May 20, 2022 CWBChicago

Ten people were shot, two fatally, near the Chicago-State Red Line station and the nearby neighborhood on Thursday night. In a media statement, police said one person is in custody. The number of people injured and their conditions may change. Police are still unwinding what happened.

#18: Man escaped from electronic monitoring and ran over a cop in a stolen car while fleeing a murder scene, prosecutors say

May 19, 2022 CWBChicago

Antonio Gonzalez ran over a Chicago cop who was trying to take him into custody for questioning regarding a murder, prosecutors said. It happened Monday, three weeks after he cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and went missing in a pending felony case.

Woman’s face slashed, arms broken with bat at West Loop bus stop

May 19, 2022 CWBChicago

A man beat a woman with a baseball bat and slashed her face, possibly with a box cutter, as she sat on a CTA bus stop bench in the West Loop early Wednesday. A witness said the woman appeared to be homeless.

20-time felon is now a 30-time felon after pleading guilty to 10 North Side scooter thefts

May 19, 2022 CWBChicago

Twenty-time convicted felon Randall Brown became thirty-time convicted felon Randall Brown last week when he pleaded guilty to stealing ten Moped-style scooters from parking spots across the North Side during the summer of 2020.

Charges filed against a man who allegedly displayed a gun while running with a shooting victim during Saturday’s ‘large group’ incident

May 19, 2022 CWBChicago

Willie Johnson is facing felony gun charges for allegedly displaying a firearm while running with a man who had been shot during last weekend’s “large group” incident in the Loop.

High school student circumvented metal detectors to bring gun into class Tuesday, prosecutors say

May 19, 2022 CWBChicago

A CPS high school student, on bond for a felony gun case, allegedly circumvented security checkpoints to bring a gun into clase Tuesday.

Cops looking for man who robbed woman at Clark-Lake Blue Line

May 18, 2022 CWBChicago

Chicago police are asking for help as they try to locate the man who robbed a woman at the Clark-Lake Blue Line station Sunday morning.

12-year-old and two 14-year-olds are charged with trying to rob man in Lincoln Park; another violent robbery is reported nearby

May 18, 2022 CWBChicago

Five people, including a 12-year-old boy and two 14-year-old boys, chased and tried to rob a man in Lincoln Park on Monday. Another violent robbery was reported around the same time in nearby Lakeview.

Aldermen speak out as mass shooting victims are identified, video emerges

Top cop offers explanation of mass shooting near Mag Mile — but CPD radio transmissions offer a different tale (audio)

Cops seek 3 men who attacked, robbed 63-year-old man at Loop Brown Line station

Crime reports are at new highs while police staffing is at 5-year-lows across Chicago’s downtown and North Side: data

New: Mass shooting near the Magnificent Mile followed reports of teens fighting, another shooting nearby

Chaotic shooting leaves at least 2 dead, 8 more injured on Near North Side

#18: Man escaped from electronic monitoring and ran over a cop in a stolen car while fleeing a murder scene, prosecutors say

Woman’s face slashed, arms broken with bat at West Loop bus stop

20-time felon is now a 30-time felon after pleading guilty to 10 North Side scooter thefts

Charges filed against a man who allegedly displayed a gun while running with a shooting victim during Saturday’s ‘large group’ incident

High school student circumvented metal detectors to bring gun into class Tuesday, prosecutors say

Cops looking for man who robbed woman at Clark-Lake Blue Line

12-year-old and two 14-year-olds are charged with trying to rob man in Lincoln Park; another violent robbery is reported nearby

CTA passenger dead after being stabbed on a Blue Line train downtown, police say

CPD brass enjoys weeks-long vacations while canceling days off for underlings, records show

18-year-old killed a man because he thought the victim’s van was too noisy, prosecutors say

Justin Gamino was killed last week by a man who received just 2 years for his third felony gun case, according to prosecutors

3 charged with catalytic converter theft after their car crashes on North Side