Category: Crime and Public Safety

Officers responded to a call of someone in the street Tuesday night in the Andersonville neighborhood and discovered two men wounded, one fatally, Chicago police said. Shortly before 9:15 p.m., officers called out to a person in the street in the 5400 block of North Ashland Avenue and found a 26-yer-old man with gunshot wounds to the neck and shoulder. The man told police he was wounded while he was inside his car in an alley, police said. When they located the car, officers discovered a 21-year-old man who was unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head. That victim […]

The Midwest FurFest convention was on as usual in December 2014 when people started to get sick. Authorities directed conventiongoers to evacuate and one person was seen fleeing the area wearing “a black and white tail, headpiece, hands and feet.” That person later denied being involved in an “intentional chlorine gas leak” to investigating FBI agents, but demonstrated a working knowledge of chlorine and had a roll of reddish duct tape in his apartment similar to that found at the crime scene. Asked why his name might have surfaced as a suspect, the person said he had “been involved with […]

A 10-year-old girl was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in Albany Park while a 12-year-old girl was hospitalized.

In a case indicative of the justice system’s slowly changing attitudes toward domestic violence, a Cook County judge on Monday reduced the sentence for a Chicago woman who said she shot and killed her abuser in 2001, allowing her to shave more than three years off her prison term.

North Riverside police responded to a disturbance at approximately 3:47 p.m. in the 8500 block of Cermak Road, where they encountered a man from Crest Hill wielding knives.