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Govanni Hernández, de 32 años, fue arrestado después de que las pruebas de ADN lo relacionaron con el incidente de violencia vial que mató a Mateo Zastro, de 3 años, el 30 de septiembre de 2022.
Govanni Hernandez, 32, was arrested after DNA evidence connected him to the road-rage incident that killed Mateo Zastro, 3, on Sept. 30, 2022.
The National Weather Service confirmed that 11 tornadoes touched down Monday night and six on Sunday. Interstate 55 remains closed in both directions near Channahon after power lines fell on the highway.
Council members from the Southwest and Northwest sides, with wards dominated by single-family homes, said allowing homeowners to turn attics, basements and garages into revenue-generating “granny flats” could create problems.
Charles Mills worked as a special education classroom assistant for 23 years at Jones College Prep in the South Loop. Sunday night he was struck and killed while crossing Pulaski Road.
An unidentified 56-year-old man was crossing the street at 63rd and Pulaski late Sunday night when a red Camry hit him without stopping, according to police.
Johnny Huizar, 32, was driving Saturday in the 6100 block of South Central Park Avenue when two people fired shots from a sidewalk, authorities said.
Migrant families bused to Daley College in move to ease crowding on police station floors, city says
The shift from a North Side YMCA leaves families with kids intact and makes room for hundreds of single men still sleeping at police stations, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s chief of staff said.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has been unclear about the reasoning behind the transfer, and has even kept a local City Council member in the dark about the plan.
The body of a 24-year-old man was taken out of the water about 5:30 p.m. Thursday and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities say.
In the two-candidate contest to succeed Ald. Ed Burke in the 14th Ward, Jeylú Gutiérrez faces Raul Reyes. And in the nearby 13th and 23rd Wards, two incumbents — one who broke with former House Speaker Mike Madigan and the other a longtime ally — are seeking reelection.
He was standing at a gas station in the 6700 block of South Pulaski Road when he was shot, police said.
The teen boy was sitting in a parked car about 1:25 p.m. in the 6000 block of South Pulaski Road when a red SUV drove up and someone inside opened fire.
“You don’t have to go down to Michigan Avenue to shop, you can shop right here on the Southwest Side,” said Rodney Watt, director of development for the group organizing the event, now in its 10th year.
Black-owned company gets OK for $13.5M city subsidy to buy, revamp 6 South, West side grocery stores
Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, said the Save A Lot name that will be revived by stores operated by Yellow Banana has been seriously damaged by store closings.
“It hurts me so much not waking up to my baby,” says Veronica Zastro, whose 3-year-old was shot dead in an apparent road-range incident in West Lawn.
The slain boy, identified as Mateo Zastro, is one of the youngest victims of violence in Chicago this year.