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Jordan Parks, 19, and Antoine Blakes, 16, are accused of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the April shooting of Cameron Rayford, prosecutors said. A 15-year-old boy is also charged with murder in juvenile court.
Chicago police, postal authorities are probing the break-in early Monday in the Loop. A rash of recent robberies has targeted master keys that unlock multiple mailboxes.
The woman was arguing with a man on the train when she pulled out a gun and shot him in the 1100 Block of South State Street, police said.
The man, whose age wasn’t released, was attacked by a person with a sharp object in the 300 block of South State Street at Van Buren.
The proposals to revitalize the LaSalle Street corridor represent investments of $320 million and would add about 600 housing units to the Loop, almost half “affordable” under city rules.
Chief of Patrol Brian McDermott acknowledged the Chicago Police Department was caught flat-footed when groups of young people descended on the Loop last month.
The worker told police he was cut Saturday when he confronted a would-be shoplifter who pulled a knife from his waistband and swung at him.
The lawyer and bar owner who holds the liquor license for Lollapalooza violated lobbying rules when he asked a City Hall official to help secure business licenses to operate parking lots on Chicago Public Schools property.
Local leaders lauded Brandon Johnson’s plan to revamp the city’s summer jobs programs and said their message was one of caring for young people they said the city had left behind.
“We don’t know why there’s so many police. We’re a bit confused but we feel safe,” one woman said on her way out of Millennium Park.
Last week, two people were shot, a couple beaten and police slow to respond. This week, fences are up at Millennium Park, entry points are limited and a curfew will be enforced, city officials said.
A man entered the Chase bank, 10 S. Dearborn St., about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday and demanded funds with a note. No one was hurt, authorities say.
Police said the potential gathering appears to be “much like” the ones in Chicago last weekend that left three teens shot and ended with more than a dozen arrests.
A couple who was attacked, and a good Samaritan who came to their aid, have said officers drove past the melee Saturday night in the 100 block of North Wabash Avenue.
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“Nobody knew who was in charge,” 2nd Ward Ald. Brian Hopkins said, as groups of teens jumped on cars and set fires in the Loop over three nights of mayhem.
The teens were in a large, unruly crowd fighting and dancing on cars when shots were fired about 9 p.m. Saturday in the 100 block of East Washington Street.
The decision by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks is not binding on the federal government, which owns the properties and has called them a security risk.
Action by the city to preserve two unoccupied Loop towers could make it harder for the federal government, which owns the buildings, to tear them down as it wants.
No one was hurt when shots were fired during a fight Saturday night inside a movie theater at the Roosevelt Collection.
The more than century-old structure is between two taller buildings that preservationists are fighting to save. The General Services Administration said the smaller building has a facade that could collapse.
The proposals deemed eligible for city subsidies together call for more than 1,000 housing units, a third of them affordable, and more than $550 million in investment to address downtown vacancies.
Police said a person was being questioned after a man was found unresponsive in a stairwell landing early Saturday at the LaSalle Street station.
Another officer opened fire during the downtown encounter, but no one was hit, police said.
The riders were on a Purple Line Express train when the tracks lost power near the Merchandise Mart. Service on the line was stopped between Armitage and the Loop and shuttle buses were used, according to the CTA.
Fences were erected days after Preservation Chicago put the buildings at 202 and 220 S. State St. on its ‘most endangered’ list, calling for efforts to save them.
The victim was followed into the Adams/Wabash station in what police are calling “an isolated incident.”
The 61-year-old tradition is happening again this weekend a few hours before the start of the downtown Chicago St. Patrick’s Day parade.
The guard and the suspect exchanged gunfire about 3 p.m. Thursday at a bank in the 100 block of South Wacker Drive, the FBI reported.