The boy, 15, was shot in the abdomen and his left leg in an alley in the 6600 block of South Champlain Avenue around 8:25 p.m.
15-year-old shot and killed in Woodlawn Tuesday night
Category: Crime and Public Safety
Feds expected to call ex-state Rep. Lou Lang, play first recordings in Madigan corruption trial
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday are expected to play a first wave of nearly 200 secretly recorded conversations in the landmark corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan
Family mourns death of 18-year-old from Elgin killed in shooting before Lil Durk concert
Family members are mourning the death of an 18-year-old from Elgin who was shot Sunday night near the United Center before a Lil Durk concert at the venue.
Madigan co-defendant’s lawyer tells jury legal lobbying is not bribery, says feds view ‘just wrong’
A lawyer for ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime confidant told a federal jury Tuesday that the allegations of bribery and corruption against them attempt to criminalize legal lobbying and relationship building at the center of the state’s politics.
2 police officers, 2 others injured in Monday night crash in Rogers Park
A woman driving an SUV in the 7600 block of North Sheridan Road around 10:30 p.m. ignored a traffic signal and hit a police vehicle
CPD: Man, 27, killed in Roseland shooting Monday night
Chicago police officers responded to a call about a shooting at a residence in the 10900 block of South Indiana Avenue around 9:40 p.m.
Facing 7 more lawsuits, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs protests a ‘fresh wave of publicity’
Seven new lawsuits have been filed against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, including one alleging the rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Trial resumes in case against two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys
During a marathon day of testimony, a Cook County assistant state’s attorney on Monday described conversations and meetings with two former colleagues who face criminal charges, recalling the days leading up to an explosive trial that spawned perjury allegations against a former Cook County prosecutor.
Country Club Hills woman with dementia found dead in forest preserve
78-year-old Yolanda Howell, missing from her Country Club Hills home since Oct. 8, was found dead in the Bartel Grassland preserve.
Blue Island crash leaves 1 dead, driver seriously injured
Passenger Stephanie Heil, 41, of Bolingbrook, was killed when the vehicle she was in flipped down an embankment in Blue Island