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Shelia Grier moved to the suburbs to escape the violence outside the ABLA Brooks Homes. Despite it all, she comes back every weekend because she loves the community she calls family.
A 63-year-old man walking in the 700 block of West 107th Street about 7:24 p.m. Sunday was wounded in a shooting, police said. He was hospitalized in fair condition.
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A driver heading east in the 2300 block of East Marquette Road about 7:03 p.m. Sunday struck a Nissan and landed in the water. The driver was hospitalized in good condition, police said.
Officers found Demarie Williams, 19, unresponsive with a head injury about noon Sunday in the 6900 block of South Oglesby Avenue, police said.
The woman, 38, was in a ‘verbal altercation’ with another person in the 400 block of West 61st Place about 2:40 p.m. Sunday when the other person shot at her, police said. A person of interest is in custody.
Illinois State Police say the officer was at the scene of a crash on I-94 in Pullman when an Audi struck his police cruiser. The officer and the driver and passenger in the Audi were treated. The driver of the Audi was cited.
The 1901 church will see three of its exterior facades preserved as redevelopment pairs a new space for the congregation with residential units.
The two high-ranking officials with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability were abruptly fired Friday, just days after one of them complained to the inspector general about bias against police.
Retired Chicago Fire Captain Paul McLaughlin tells Sneed the trouble really started that night in August 1968 “when Wallace threw a punch at my father, Fifth District Police Commander Paul McLaughlin.”
Después que el director ejecutivo de CPS, Pedro Martínez, y la Junta de CPS rechazaran la petición del alcalde de pedir un préstamo a corto plazo para cubrir un pago de pensiones de $175 millones y el costo de un nuevo contrato de maestros, el Sun-Times y WBEZ informaron que Johnson estaba haciendo los precedentes para despedir a Martínez.
Testimony and arguments offered a taste Thursday of what’s to come as a series of public corruption trials resume this fall. Michael Madigan had been sent to go to trial last spring, but a review of a key bribery law by the U.S. Supreme Court prompted a six-month delay.
After CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and the CPS Board rejected the mayor’s request to take out a short-term loan to cover a $175 million pension payment and the cost of a new teachers contract, the Sun-Times and WBEZ reported Johnson was laying the groundwork to fire Martinez.
The Chicago Transit Authority announced Thursday that it is one month into a year-long pilot program with ZeroEyes, a company that uses artificial intelligence to identify guns in surveillance video and alert police.
Se realizó un homenaje en memoria de Juan Sebastián Salgado en la Academia Comunitaria Benito Juárez en lo que hubiera sido su primer día del último año escolar. Salgado, capitán del equipo, fue asesinado a tiros el 19 de agosto en un tiroteo.
Un panel de jueces del Condado de Cook se reunió dos veces este mes para determinar si la jueza Peggy Chiampas infringió las normas éticas cuando amenazó a Robert Almodóvar con encarcelarlo y le prohibió la entrada a la Corte Penal de Leighton.
Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn’t ruled out raising property taxes next year to close a budget gap estimated at $982.4 million.
The three men were standing on a sidewalk about 7:50 p.m. Wednesday in the 6200 block of South Campbell Avenue when two people approached them and fired shots, police said.
Video surveillance of the attack early Friday shows a man wearing a vest emblazoned with the word “officer” and carrying a badge. He pulls out a gun and shoots a 42-year-old man who was leaving the restaurant.
O’Hare Airport has recorded a temperature of 99 degrees, which broke the previous high for Aug. 27, set in 1973. Relief could be near after thunderstorms.
Bally’s chairman Soo Kim said his hedge fund’s $4.6 billion merger deal to buy out shareholders is “an indicator of how optimistic we are” about the revenue potential for the massive casino being built at 777 W. Chicago Ave.