Category: Local News

Claudia Rodriguez said shootings are so frequent in her Chicago Lawn neighborhood that the sound of gunshots doesn’t surprise her. Despite the constant fear she and her children live in every day, she found some security in knowing that technology helped police respond to shootings fast, she said. But on Monday morning, for the first time in years, a shooting near the hair salon where she works wasn’t picked up by the gunshot detection system known as ShotSpotter, a controversial mechanism Mayor Brandon Johnson has criticized as inaccurate and too expensive. It was taken offline at 12:01 a.m. Monday, according […]

An unknown shooter seriously wounded a man early Monday afternoon about two blocks east of the Magnificent Mile, according to police. A 26-year old man was on the sidewalk in the 300 block of East North Water Street around 1 p.m. when he was shot in the head, police said. Police said they didn’t know who had opened fire. The man was taken in serious condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said. No one was in custody and area detectives were investigating the shooting.