Austin

Thirteen of the robberies occurred between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday across the Avondale, Austin, Logan Square and Portage Park neighborhoods, though another occurred Thursday in the 2600 block of West Fletcher Avenue about 7:41 p.m.
On the final weekend of campaigning before Illinois polls open, candidates treaded two well-worn campaign paths: St. Patrick’s Day parades and churches across the city.
Sean Bailey, 45, was shot about 6:45 p.m. Friday. One person was being questioned by police.
For well over a year, church officials have offered up rent-free locations to the city, but Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has yet to act. Oak Park, on the other hand, is now housing migrants at a former Catholic school.
The man, 28, was dropped off at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where he was pronounced dead.
Police say Rodgerick O’Neal shot security guard Loyce Wright at the Family Dollar in Austin last week, likely after an argument. “He definitely did not deserve that,” said Robin Wright, Loyce Wright’s older sister. “He was a loving guy, loved his family. And for someone to just snatch his life like that, we will never forgive.”
Loyce Wright, 43, was inside the Family Dollar at 5410 W. Chicago Ave. about 1:40 p.m. when a person walked up to him and fired shots, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
The brutal attack happened about 6:40 p.m. Wednesday as Terrance Pearson walked along a sidewalk with his girlfriend, daughter and another young relative, after leaving the TNT Rooftop Restaurant, 5405 W. Madison Ave.
Zayin Kelly, 18, faces charges of murder and armed robbery in the Dec. 3 shooting.
Police say a man followed a person from Lake Street and Central Avenue to a building in the 200 block of North Central Avenue on Jan. 11 and assaulted them.
A string of 10 armed robberies began in Lincoln Park and moved west before hitting the Loop and ending in Austin.
A 51-year-old driver was dropping off a fare about 10:10 p.m. in the 900 block of North LeClaire Avenue when three males approached, fired and fled, police said.
The boy, 15, was shot in the leg in an apartment in the 1700 block of North Mango Avenue before 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The children, ages 1, 4, 7 and 11, were found in a home Sunday afternoon after one of them flagged passing police. A 29-year-old woman has been arrested.
Nancy Adduci was a rising star in the prosecutor’s office but has faced allegations she hid evidence from the investigation of the 2011 murder of Chicago Police officer Clifton Lewis.
Adriana Arocha-Duque, 34, who sought asylum in the U.S. from Venezuela in 2017, was found shot to death in her SUV Tuesday evening. No one is in custody.
Officers responding to a crash in the 4800 block of West Thomas Street about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday found the woman in the driver’s seat with a gunshot wound to the head.
Chicago police have requested the public’s help locating Kenneth Brown, 44, who is wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend Maria Roque.
Mayor Brandon Johnson plans a range of resources, including another round of guaranteed basic income, targeted this time to four neighborhoods.
Officers found the man, 44, lying on a sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1600 block of North Mango Avenue about 7:50 p.m., police said.