A woman was stabbed to death and a man was shot in the leg in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Emergency workers found the woman with stab wounds in the 5600 block of West Leland Avenue. They took her to Ascension Resurrection, where she was pronounced dead, […]
The latest assessment by the independent monitor has found the Chicago Police Department continues to make incremental progress in its consent decree obligations, but those efforts are under threat because of proposed cutbacks to personnel in the department’s reform office.
Authorities have accused Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of hate crime assault and battery after she allegedly yelled profanities at the man, whose sweatshirt read “Palestine,” and tried to slap his wife’s phone out of her hands as she filmed the confrontation in a Downers Grove Panera Bread.
Former ComEd board member Juan Ochoa testified Tuesday that then-House Speaker Michael Madigan backed him for the lucrative position with the utility after two of his political mentors, U.S. Reps. Luis Gutierrez and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, had endorsed Madigan in the general election.
After being shot Monday morning near the intersection of Berteau and Lincoln avenues, the victim was in critical condition. The 74-year-old is receiving care in an ICU, said Ald. Matt Martin.
A passenger of a car was fatally injured and four others were hurt overnight when the vehicle struck a pole on the South Side in Gresham neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 2:15 a.m., a white Chrysler 300 was headed south in the 7700 block of South Vincennes Avenue when it struck a pole, police said. A passenger of the Chrysler was fatally injured and was pronounced dead at the scene. Four others, including the driver also were injured. The driver, 19, suffered a broken femur and hip, and was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was listed in serious […]
Authorities identified Olga Duchon, 42, on Monday after officers found her with a gunshot wound late Sunday afternoon on West Russell Street in Barrington.
Authorities have accused Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of hate crime assault and battery after she allegedly yelled profanities at the man, whose sweatshirt read “Palestine,” and tried to slap his wife’s phone out of her hands as she filmed the confrontation in a Downers Grove Panera Bread.
A man stabbed three people across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, killing two and critically wounding the third without uttering a word to his victims, officials said.
The man got out of his vehicle around 9 a.m. in the 2000 block of West Berteau Avenue. At that time, two people began shooting him