Category: Crime and Public Safety

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.  

Chicago police opened a death investigation after a 63-year-old man was pulled from the Chicago River Friday afternoon in the Loop. About 1:20 p.m., a man was discovered unresponsive in the river in the 300 block of South Wacker Drive. He was pulled from the water and taken to Insight Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Detectives were conducting a death investigation pending autopsy results.  

An unidentified male victim was discovered fatally wounded Thursday night in an alley on the West side in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood, Chicago police said.

A federal grand jury in Chicago on Monday accused a high-ranking advisor and security leader in a faction of the notorious Sinaloa cartel of producing and importing illegal drugs to the U.S., the Department of Justice announced.