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The man, 40, was shot about 12:40 a.m. in the 9000 block of South Emerald Avenue.
Just before 10 a.m., the man was found with a gunshot wound to his left thigh in the 8100 block of South Throop Street, Chicago police said.
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Track the pace of homicides and shootings in Chicago’s most violent areas, based on Sun-Times and city data.
Krikor Topouzian is accused of sellin N95 masks at inflated prices. He was convicted after a trial before a magistrate judge, but the verdict was vacated after his attorneys argued Topouzian was not told of his right to have the case heard by a district judge.
Vice President Kamala Harris will oversee the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Mayor Brandon Johnson, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., attended Friday’s kick-off ceremony.
LaVelle Harper, 21, was shot about 3:15 p.m. Thursday in the 7800 block of South South Shore Drive, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
During a committee hearing Friday, Larry Snelling vowed to aggressively use technology to address robberies while supporting officers by bolstering mental health supports and giving them more time off.
Ermalinda Palomo has been identified by police as “a person of interest” in the Romeoville mass slaying, but she was nowhere near the far southwestern suburb when the family of four was killed, a lawyer for Palomo’s family said.
En el coche también encontraron a una mujer herida de bala que más tarde murió a causa de las heridas, según las autoridades.
Showtime film draws from the audacious plotting of Armand Moore, a man who used his skills “not as a genius but stupidly,” a judge said.
A woman was struck by a white SUV about 10:45 p.m. in the 5900 block of South King Drive.
Ronnie Carrasquillo will be resentenced after 46 years in prison after the court ruled the Illinois Prisoner Review Board didn’t give him a “meaningful” opportunity for parole.
Cook County Judge William Gamboney handed down the sentence Thursday against Lionel Parks.
The 29-year-old suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the 9500 block of South Wentworth Avenue, police said.
Most of the stickups Thursday involved two to six armed men approaching victims and demanding their personal belongings.
A 20-year-old woman was killed and two other people wounded during a shooting in the 4300 block of South Rockwell Avenue, police said.
Relatives created a GoFundMe page to cover funeral expenses for the slain family. “These were hardworking people that had just bought their first home,” organizers wrote. “Their kids were the sweetest most innocent angels who could hug your worries away.”
Fadhil Obeed, 38, was found dead in his home in the 700 block of North Long Road, officials said.
A good Samaritan intervened after two people were beating a young girl Sunday night in the 1900 block of South Spaulding Avenue.
The attacks happened in Wicker Park, Logan Square and Humboldt Park between 9:25 p.m. and 9:40 p.m., according to Chicago police. No one was reported in custody.
Marquese Simmons, 18, was in the 8100 block of South Ellis Avenue when three males got out of a black Dodge Charger and opened fire.
The male, whose age wasn’t known, was standing on the front porch of a home in the 7000 block of South Yale Avenue when someone fired shots.
The event was a collaboration between Survivors Empowered and former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, who spoke to attendees. The organization is dedicated to saving lives from gun violence.
Police have collected “a tremendous amount of physical evidence” in the deaths of Alberto Rolon, 38, Zoraida Bartolomei, 32, and their two sons, 7 and 9.
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said the work done by Rudolph Acosta III in the years since his 2015 arrest amounted to the greatest case of rehabilitation he’d seen in his 29 years on the bench.
In the 51-second video, a man who resembles Brown calls the reports of his mother’s death “fake news” and says the Maywood police and FBI are setting him up.