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An 11-year-old boy was hit by an eastbound SUV in the 5200 block of West 31st Street about 8:18 p.m. Sunday, police said. The driver was cited.
Police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 2800 block of South Kedzie Avenue about 5 p.m. Sunday and found a 19-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. He died. Two others were wounded.
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The Park District announced about 11 a.m. Sunday that the fountain — which contains 1.5 million gallons of water — had been cleared of the dye and turned back on.
Larry Neuman sought to bring people together and hoped to do more for young people. The retired police officer, Vietnam veteran and ordained minister ‘probably knew just about everybody in the neighborhood.’ Police say they have a person of interest in custody.
Raysean Comer, 16, faces multiple felony charges, including first-degree murder and discharging a firearm that caused death, in addition to two other charges related to prior warrants, police said.
Marvel White, 16, was arguing with someone about 6:40 p.m. in the the 6500 block of South Racine Avenue. The other person then shot him in the chest and legs with a handgun.
A 47-year-old was found unresponsive in the 5300 block of South Hermitage Avenue on Tuesday, June 4. Detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
The man, 45, was shot early Monday, June 17, in the 7600 block of North Paulina Street.
A man, 29, was in the 3500 block of West 73rd Street about 8:09 p.m. when two men approached him and shot at him with handguns, police said.
Nearly a dozen protesters were taken into custody about 2:41 p.m. Saturday after they allegedly held a demonstration on Franklin Street, police say. Earlier, vandals dropped red dye into Buckingham Fountain and painted pro-Palestinian messages there.
Colin Hinkle, a professional drone pilot, noticed the red dye mixing with the green water of the fountain early Saturday morning and saw spray paint on the ground that read, “Gaza is bleeding” and “Stop the genocide.” 'That’s when I realized it was a protest,’ Hinkle said.
The city recorded four nights of lows in the 70s. Nighttime heat can be dangerous for the elderly, and for those without air conditioning, there are almost no options to cool off.
Bally’s will have trouble meeting its state-mandated September 2026 deadline for a $1.7 billion permanent casino, according to a gaming expert and Mayor Brandon Johnson. It’s been running a temporary casino at Medinah Temple.
Nearly a decade has passed since an Illinois politician as significant as Burke faced sentencing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. The need to send a message to others is sure to be on the judge’s mind when she makes her decision.
The scrap metal business seeks the same type of operating permit that was denied to the relocated General Iron on the Southeast Side.
A lawsuit accuses the company that operates the Skyway of overcharging users by anywhere from 10 cents to $1.20 per trip. The overcharges allegedly tallied about $3 million over the five-year period ending in March.
Robert Magiet, propietario de un restaurante, entregó 24 unidades de aire acondicionado a residentes de Logan Square, Humboldt Park y otras áreas cercanas el martes y el miércoles, mientras Chicago alcanzaba cuatro días seguidos con temperaturas que superan los 90 grados.
El sonido agudo suena día y noche desde una caja pequeña ubicada en la azotea de un edificio desocupado en el 2380 S. Halsted St., una de las áreas donde los migrantes se reúnen con más frecuencia. No fue posible contactar a los dueños del edificio.
Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot established the Emergency Supplemental Victims Fund as a pilot in five communities. Her successor, Mayor Brandon Johnson, is using federal stimulus funds to expand the program into 10 additional neighborhoods.
Chicago firefighters responded to a call of a fire Wednesday at an auto body and battery shop about 6 p.m. The fire was out by 8 p.m., officials said. Flames spread to a neighboring building. No one was hurt.
Tony Jackson, 58, was pulled out of the water about 7:50 p.m. in the 600 block of North Lake Shore Drive, days after he went missing near Oak Street Beach.
That makes nine schools renamed since a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found 30 schools were named for slaveholders, and schools named after white people — mostly men — vastly outnumbered those named for African Americans, Latinos and indigenous people.