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A Cook County jury found Tremon Hill, 25, not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2018 killing of Dejanay Stanton, a transgender woman found shot in a Bronzeville alley. The jury deliberated for several hours and asked about the possibility of a deadlock before returning its verdict, the Chicago Tribune reported. Hill is expected to be released on electronic monitoring because of a separate pending case, the Tribune said. The acquittal does not establish who killed Stanton.

Three people were shot in on a sidewalk in Chicago in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon, police said. Around 2:50 p.m., a 40-year-old woman, a 41-year-old man and a 46-year-old man were standing outside on the 3000 block of West Flournoy in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood when an unidentified gunman drove by in a car and fired shots in their direction.

Crash-and-grab burglaries have now hit four Chicago jewelry stores in four days, and the Chicago Police Department has put out a community warning. According to ABC7 Chicago, police say crews hit jewelry stores on the North and Northwest Sides on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday this week, in the Albany Park, Rogers Park, West Ridge and Avondale neighborhoods. Police haven’t released what was taken from each store or named any suspects.

Cook County’s Healthy Homes for Healthy Families program is completing its final projects after serving 357 households. One participant, 73-year-old Westchester resident Linda Jones-Woodley, said her October electricity bill was $54.75, compared with $184.62 a year earlier. Through the program, she received a new furnace and seven replacement windows.

A water main break in Chicago flooded at least six homes overnight, leaving residents with water-filled basements and raising questions about responsibility as construction work was underway on nearby sewer and water infrastructure.

A man who carjacked a Lakeview driver at gunpoint and was caught hours later carrying a loaded handgun at a Southwest Side mall has been given a 10-year sentence. But state law will cut that in half, and jail credit will leave him with about 2.5 years to serve. Daniel...

CHICAGO - A 34-year-old woman was seriously injured in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood Friday night, police said. What we know: — Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1400 block of South Karlov Avenue at about 11:15 p.m. Friday. Police said the woman was outside when a dark-colored SUV drove past and someone inside opened fire.

A woman who is seven months pregnant struggled for at least three minutes to tell Chicago 911 operators she had been shot Friday night, according to records and radio transmissions reviewed by CWB Chicago. The emergency response was further delayed because nobody else reported the shooting and the local ShotSpotter network, which used to monitor the block for gunfire 24/7, was disconnected by Mayor Brandon Johnson in 2024.

About 800 workers at BP’s Whiting Refinery have been locked out of their jobs for 218 days, with another meeting between the company and the union scheduled for Monday. The dispute centers on a proposed contract that BP says would help keep the refinery competitive, while workers argue it would weaken their union and cost jobs.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a sweeping new strategy Thursday to expand food access across Chicago, calling for a network of year-round indoor public markets concentrated in the city's historically underserved South and West sides. The Market City Action Plan also calls for administrative infrastructure to support food entrepreneurs and continued backing for existing farmers markets, marking the latest shift in an effort that began three years ago as a proposal for a city-owned grocery store.