News Crime

20-year-old man wounded in Marquette Park shooting

By Francesca Gattuso

A 20-year-old man was wounded Monday afternoon in a Southwest Side shooting in the Marquette Park neighborhood.

It happened at 3:40 p.m. when someone approached the man in the 2400 block of West 71st Street and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.

The man was shot in the leg and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in good condition, police said.

Area South detectives are investigating.

Next Up In News

Netflix looks to curb password sharing, considers ads

Aiming to predict COVID, future pandemics better, CDC opens infectious diseases forecasting center

Joliet farmers wrangle cows thrown from semitrailer after crash on Interstate 80

1 killed, 3 wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago

Obama relatives sue Milwaukee school alleging racial bias

Unmasked transit: Pritzker ends mask mandates in public transportation, airports

Latest Stories

The Latest

White Sox

White Sox find another way to lose

Blow three-run lead, get walked off by Twins, fall to 3-20

By Daryl Van Schouwen

Chicago Sky and WNBA

Kamilla Cardoso is looking forward to her WNBA transition with Sky

There are 13 former Gamecocks on WNBA training camp rosters. The only program with more is UConn, which has 18 players on training camp rosters.

By Annie Costabile

Cubs

Former Cub Don Kessinger watching with pride as grandson Grae arrives with Astros at Wrigley Field

“We’re kind of living through Grae right now,” Kessinger told the Sun-Times. “I’m more excited and nervous watching him play than I was when I broke in.”

By Steve Greenberg

Crime

Man shot, killed in South Shore

The 59-year-old was found about 7 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Chappel Avenue with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man shot dead at Schiller Park bar

Jonathan Vallejo, 38, of River Grove, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the Friday shooting and was pronounced dead at Lutheran General Hospital, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

By Sun-Times Wire