Category: Crime and Public Safety

A resident of a building alerted officers on patrol in the Brainerd neighborhood that a building was on fire Monday night, Chicago police said. About 9:40 p.m., officers were alerted about a fire at a building in the 9000 block of South Laflin Street and they discovered the rear of the structure was on fire. Officers entered the building and alert residents it was on fire and evacuated the building as the fire was beginning to spread. Chicago firefighters put out the blaze and were investigating the cause, police said. Four residents of the building were displaced.

A burglar used a brick to smash a window of a restaurant before taking property overnight in the Lakeview neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after midnight Tuesday, a vehicle pulled up to a restaurant in the 3500 block of North Clark Street and someone exited and threw a brick through a window. The burglar entered the business and took property before returning to a vehicle and fleeing the scene, police said. No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.  

As a crowd at a funeral grew chaotic on Saturday afternoon on the city’s West Side, a Chicago police officer was punched, fell to the ground and was kicked in the head while down, prosecutors alleged during a detention hearing on Monday.

A man from the Far South Side now faces a half dozen counts of attempted murder and several other felonies after he allegedly shot another man Saturday morning before engaging in a minutes-long shootout with Chicago police officers on the North Side.

A 17-year-old boy died and three others were injured in a traffic crash in West Englewood Sunday night, Chicago police said. The teen was the passenger in a white SUV that ignored a traffic signal and was struck by a gray SUV in the middle of an intersection in the 7100 block of South Ashland Avenue at just after 10 p.m. Sunday, according to police. He and the driver, a 40-year-old man, were both transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where the teen was pronounced dead, Chicago police said. The older man was brought to the hospital in […]