Category: Crime and Public Safety

The 26-year-old was shot and killed while responding to a traffic stop in Chatham last week.

Both men were shot in the head after an argument early Sunday.

A silver sedan was struck by a northbound white sedan on the 2600 block of North Ashland Avenue at around 1 a.m. Sunday.

The death of a 64-year-old man who was struck by an SUV while riding a bike in the Lower West Side was ruled an accident Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.  A Jeep SUV struck the still-unidentified bicyclist in the 1900 block of South Union Avenue on Oct. 27 around 4:14 a.m., Chicago police said. The Jeep’s driver fled the scene.  The unresponsive bicyclist was transported to Stroger Hospital with a head injury, police said. He died there Wednesday evening.  An autopsy performed Saturday showed that the man died due to complications from “craniocerebral injuries” from a […]

A South Shore man has been charged in a fatal shooting that happened near the loading docks earlier this week at Navy Pier, Chicago police said. Raylon East, 36, of the South Shore neighborhood was charged with two counts of murder and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, police said. East was arrested Thursday in the 7000 block of South Cottage Grove after police issued images of him on public transportation. East, thought to be a recently terminated ex-employee, is believed to have fatally wounded two workers at about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday at a loading dock and nearby […]

A 66-year-old man who was involved in a fight on the Lower West Side overnight fell to the ground and later died, Chicago police said. Shortly before 11:15 p.m., the victim was fighting with a 34-year-old man inside a residence in the 1300 block of West 13th Street. At some point, the younger man struck the older man with a closed fist to the face causing the older man to fall to the ground and become unresponsive, police said. Fire department paramedics arrived at the scene and took the older man to the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center […]

A wrong-way driver spurred a fatal crash overnight that killed herself and injured several others on Lake Shore Drive in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 3:10 a.m. Saturday, a 20-year-old woman driving a gray sedan with two passengers was driving northbound in the southbound lane in the 5200 block of DuSable Lake Shore Drive in the Hyde Park neighborhood. The sedan struck a white sedan with three occupants traveling south. The white sedan continued forward and struck a second white sedan with one occupant, police said. The driver of the gray sedan suffered multiple injuries and was […]

A woman who heard gunshots outside her residence overnight discovered a 68-year-old man lying unresponsive on the ground, Chicago police said. Shortly before 3:30 a.m. Saturday. the woman heard gunfire outside her residence in the 8400 block of South May Street in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. Once checking outside she found a man lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, police said. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead. No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.