The Hardest-Working Paper in America | 
Monday, August 8, 2022
News Crime West Lawn

Man stabbed in back in West Lawn

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
SHARE Man stabbed in back in West Lawn
crimescenetape1.jpg

Sun-Times file photo

A man was stabbed Tuesday night in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

The 42-year-old got into a fight with someone who stabbed him in the lower back about 5:40 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Kildare, Chicago Police said.

He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in good condition.

Police described the stabbing as domestic.

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
The Latest
merlin_23067039.jpg
Business
Groupon plans 500 layoffs as its losses widen
Most of the cuts will be in Illinois-based positions, a company spokesman said.
By David Roeder
 
Chicago police work the scene where a person was shot in the first block of West 79th Street near the 79th Street Red Line station, in the West Chatham neighborhood, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.
Crime
Boy, 17, wounded during shootout in Greater Grand Crossing
The teen and another person were in the 100 block of West 79th Street when they each displayed handguns and fired at each other, police said.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
Christopher Vaughn is serving four life sentences for the murders of his wife and their three children.
Suburban Chicago
Parents of Christopher Vaughn sue Will County state’s attorney, others as bid for freedom continues
Vaughn’s parents argue they’ve lost time and income traveling to see their son in prison. Vaughn is being held in Pinckneyville Correctional Center, serving four life sentences for the murders of his wife and three children.
By Jon Seidel
 
Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, shown in 2018.
Politics
Trump: Mar-a-Lago home ‘under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents’
The action marks a dramatic escalation in law enforcement scrutiny of the former Republican president and comes as he has been laying the groundwork to make another bid for the White House.
By Eric Tucker | Associated Press
 
A cloud of dust spreads across the Little Village neighborhood after the Crawford Coal Plant smokestack was imploded, Saturday, April 11, 2020.
Environment
Environmental groups call for air monitoring, home air filtration systems in Little Village two years after botched implosion
Environmental community groups issued a list of demands Monday as they continue to seek answers about the demolition of a smokestack at the former Crawford Coal Plant.
By Elvia Malagón