Francesca Gattuso
Editorial Board assistant
Francesca Gattuso is an Editorial Board assistant at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Police are warning Northwest Side residents of six recent armed robberies in the Irving Park and Albany Park neighborhoods.
A man was charged Tuesday for attempting to rob a 13-year-old girl and then touching her on her way home from her bus stop Monday in St. Charles.
Bond was set at $200,000 for a northwest Indiana man who was charged Tuesday with stealing two cars from dealerships in southwest suburban Tinley Park
A southwest suburban man who choked his mother to death, then dumped her body in a river in 2013, was sentenced to 32 years in prison Tuesday.
An attempted bank robbery was reported Tuesday at the Seaway Bank branch in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
Police are investigating a man who exposed himself to a teenage girl Monday afternoon in west suburban Naperville.
A 19-year-old woman who was reported missing Saturday from south suburban Lansing has been found safe.
A kitchen fire was reported in a northwest suburban high-rise building Monday afternoon in Elgin.
Two armed robberies were reported Wednesday evening in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.