Chicago Crime

At least 16 people were shot, one fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that the shooting fatality was a 41-year-old man who was shot “in the 8700 block of South Loomis Street” Friday around 7 p.m.

CHICAGO - A man shot a woman he knew in the face after he thought someone was breaking into his home in Park Manor late Thursday.  At about 11:58 p.m., a 59-year-old man was in his residence in the 6700 block of South Prairie when he believed someone was trying to break into his home.

CHICAGO - A man was shot and killed by someone he knew in Park ManorThursday night. At about 9:51 p.m., a man went to a residence in the 200 block of East 69th Place, knocked on the door of a known victim and fired multiple shots through the door before fleeing the scene. 

CHICAGO — A man was fatally shot by a person who knocked on his door on the city’s South Side, according to police. The shooting happened around 9:50 p.m. Thursday in the 200 block of East 69th Place in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.

CHICAGO — A man shot himself during a police standoff Friday on the South Side after he was suspected of shooting his ex-girlfriend and two children earlier this month, according to law enforcement. SWAT teams responded first to the incident to the 9600 block of South Perry Avenue in the Longwood Manor neighborhood overnight.

A 48-year-old man was shot in Chicago shortly after 12:30 a.m. Friday at the same address where two men were shot two days prior, on Wednesday. CWBChicago reported that police responded to the Friday morning scene at 12:44 and found the 48-year-old had been “shot in the torso.”

MONDAY NEWS FLASH - A shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway left one person hospitalized Sunday night on Chicago's South Side. Shots were fired in the northbound lanes of Interstate 94 around 11:30 p.m. near 31st Street, according to Illinois State Police. Paramedics found the victim and a car with bullet holes in a McDonald's [...]

CHICAGO — An investigation is underway on Sunday afternoon after officers say two people forced a woman and her child from an apartment on the city’s Northwest Side. According to Chicago Police, the apparent kidnapping attempt unfolded just after 4:30 p.m. in the 5500 block of North Austin Avenue, in Jefferson Park. 

CHICAGO - Thieves rammed a food store with a car Tuesday morning in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on Chicago's Far South Side. A Jeep smashed into the front door of Save Big Food Mart around 3 a.m. at 1920 E. 95th St., according to police. No one was inside the store at the time of [...]

CHICAGO — At least four businesses were targeted in armed robberies across the city within a three-hour span Monday night into Tuesday, according to police. The first incident happened around 9:45 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of South Halsted. Police said a man entered a business with a steel hammer and threatened to batter [...]