Norwood Park

The man, 36, was attacking people around 11:50 p.m. in the 7300 block of West Summerdale Avenue when one of the victims he attacked struck him in the head with a hammer, Chicago police said.
Ald. Jim Gardiner did not respond to the Sun-Times’ requests for an interview about his runoff campaign. Challenger Megan Mathias said many residents complained to her about Gardiner’s inaccessibility but hesitated to donate to her campaign because they “feared retaliation.”
Many factors are driving the 122 candidates’ desire to become part of the grand experiment of civilian oversight at the grassroots level.
QAnon supporters have in recent days targeted Amita Resurrection Medical Center with a protest and a flood of phone calls demanding that doctors give a hospitalized ally ivermectin.
The incident happened near Northwest Highway and Nagle Avenue, according to Chicago fire officials.
The driver hit the girl in the middle of the street Monday afternoon on Higgins Avenue.
What makes James Griffith stand out amid the scandal over sexually abusive clerics is how many chances the Catholic church hierarchy had to tell the public about him — and how many times it failed to do so.
A man and woman, both 38, were both arrested and turned over to Forest Park police.
The state lowered the age this week in an effort to vaccinate Black and Brown communities that have suffered higher death rates among people 65 to 74.
The door to the woman’s home had been pried open, police said.
When officers arrived, the man held up another firework to show the type of firework he had thrown, police say.
A police “investigation revealed this was a suicide, so the person they were questioning was released without charging,” police said Wednesday.
About 12:30 a.m. officers responded to calls for help at a home in the 5100 block of North Newland Avenue, and found the woman with multiple stab wounds and a gunshot to her mouth area.
Glen Humes appeared to pass out in court during his bond hearing Thursday. He is charged in the murder of 35-year-old Sarah Donohue in Norwood Park.
The president of the Military Miniature Society of Illinois, he died of sarcoma Saturday at his Norwood Park home. The figurines he painted, made from resin or metal, could take months to complete.
In each case, two men approached a group of teenagers playing basketball, implied that they had a weapon and demanded the victims’ phones and valuables, police said.
The shooting happened at Esquire Motel on Elston Avenue.
The Northwest Side resident also had been the oldest living person from Germany, according to a research group that verifies supercentenarians for Guinness World Records.