Chicago IL

A man who threatened Chicago police officers with a gun just six days after getting probation in another gun case, prompting the officers to shoot at him, received a sentence of just 2½ years on Tuesday, according to court records. But he is expected to serve little to no time in an actual prison.

A late-night rideshare trip in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood ended with a gun pointed at a driver’s face and a stolen car, and now an 18-year-old man is facing a juvenile charge connected to the April carjacking. Police say the rider pulled a gun on a 47-year-old driver, ordered him out of the vehicle,...

Officials are still trying to identify a man who was found fatally shot in a West Side alley early Tuesday after no one in the neighborhood called 911 to report the gunfire that killed him. The man is the latest shooting victim to go undiscovered in an area that used to be covered by the city’s ShotSpotter network.

A man was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer investigating a stolen vehicle on the North Side Tuesday night, CPD said.

DANVILLE, Ill. (WICS) — Another man has been arrested as a suspect in a fatal shooting that took place at Scooters Bar in Danville. Danville police have apprehended Jontell J. Robinson, a 30-year-old from Chicago, in connection with a fatal shooting at Scooters Bar on Nov. 29, 2025. Robinson was wanted on an...

Prosecutors have charged a 16-year-old boy with eight felony counts in connection with an armed robbery and carjacking that left a young couple staring down the barrel of a gun during a summertime robbery in Lakeview. The charges stem from an incident in the 700 block of West Barry Street...

A man is charged with shooting a Chicago police officer in the chest as the cop tried to stop a violent home invasion in Morgan Park early Sunday morning. The officer survived thanks to his ballistic vest. Darren Brewster, 35, is charged with attempted murder, home invasion, and other felonies.

A man who shot a Lombard police officer will spend decades in prison.

Rensselaer- A Chicago man identified as Davaughn T. Credit, 21, is charged with Level 1 felony child molesting after an 11-year-old girl was tracked to Rensselaer and later disclosed during a forensic interview that Credit put his hand and “private parts”into her vagina, according to a probable cause affidavit filed...

Between 1900 and 1925, a conflict raged along the New York harbors, a war between Irish and Italian gangs to control the lucrative rackets along the busy, expanding waterfront wharves and warehouses. This was the battle between the Italian Sicilian Black Hand Gang and a combination of Irish street gangs...