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Category: Crime and Public Safety
18-year-old victim stabbed after argument Friday night at Loop store
An 18-year-old man was stabbed in the back Friday night at a Loop store after an argument turned into a fight, Chicago police said. About 8:45 p.m., the victim was inside a store in the 100 block of North State Street when he was involved in an argument with a group of people. The argument […]
Charges dropped against two Chicago men arrested during ICE protest at Gary airport
Charges have been dropped against two Chicago men — one a freelance photographer — arrested during a January Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest.
Boy, 15, wounded Friday night in Streeterville neighborhood, police say
A 15-year-old boy was wounded Friday night when groups of teens flooded the Streeterville neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 9:45 p.m., officers on patrol in the 400 block of North City Front Plaza Drive heard gunshots in the area and saw a large group of teens fleeing the scene. A 15-year-old boy was lying […]
Police: Boy, 15, killed in Little Village shooting
A 15-year-old boy was killed by gunshots fired from a vehicle Friday afternoon in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, according to Chicago police. The teen was standing on the sidewalk in the 2800 block of South Komensky Avenue around 5:10 p.m. when a vehicle pulled alongside him and a gunman inside the vehicle opened fire, […]
Elgin detectives recount the week they knew they’d solved the Karen Schepers missing person case
Elgin Police Chief Ana Lalley discusses the Karen Schepers missing person case with two detectives who found her car and remains in the Fox River after 41 years.
Andrew Boutros officially announced as interim U.S. attorney in Chicago
Veteran Chicago lawyer and former federal prosecutor Andrew Boutros was officially appointed Friday to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
Latest appeal denied for man convicted of killing Gary cop Jeffrey Westerfield
A Lake County Magistrate denied a Gary man’s bid for post-conviction relief Thursday, who fatally killed a Gary police officer in 2014, court records show.
Rolled trailer carrying 127 cows makes for a slow moo-ving morning commute Friday
A truck driver hauling a trailer filled with 127 cows took a ramp too fast Friday morning, police said, tipping the trailer and snarling traffic at the Interstate 65 and Interstate 80/94 interchange for much of the day.
Kane coroner confirms remains found in car are those of missing Elgin woman Karen Schepers
The Kane County Coroner’s Office announced Thursday night that the skeletal remains found inside a car removed this week from the Fox River belong to Karen Schepers, the 23-year-old Elgin woman who went missing in April 1983.