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Three armed suspects allegedly held a Brinks employee at gunpoint outside a Chase Bank ATM.

CHICAGO - David Hresil’s family is still searching for answers nearly 18 years after he was killed while walking home from school in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood. Hresil was 18 years old and a senior at St. Rita of Cascia High School when he was killed on Jan. 8, 2009, in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood.

Chicago rapper Bloodhound Q50 was shot five times during a deadly ambush at a gas station last month, according to newly released autopsy findings. The 22-year-old artist, whose real name […] The post 50 Bullet Casings, Five Gunshot Wounds: Bloodhound Q50 Autopsy Exposes Disturbing Details appeared first on Baller Alert .

CHICAGO — Authorities say one person is in custody following a shooting near the Kluczynski Federal Building downtown on Tuesday morning. According to officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the shooting unfolded on Tuesday morning on federal property near the Kluczynski Federal Building. A DHS spokesperson said an FPS Protective Security Officer reported an […]

Cook County veterans whom the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs rates 100 percent disabled and permanently and totally disabled no longer have to renew their property-tax exemption every year. The Cook County Assessor’s Office says those veterans “will be automatically renewed each year” under new legislation. For the veterans in that group, the exemption can... The post Cook County veterans rated permanently and totally disabled no longer have to re-file for their property-tax exemption each

The viral 2025 CTA brawl is now at the center of a bombshell investigation into the transit agency’s multi-million-dollar private security deals.

A pair of Chicago public schools on the city’s North Side have been named as the top elementaries in the state, according to a new ranking. U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday unveiled its individual state rankings, which listed Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Center in Albany Park and Skinner North Elementary School on the Near North Side as the top elementary schools in Illinois.

A 24-year-old Chicago man was sentenced to 11 years in prison after admitting he forced his way into a Woodstock apartment with a gun, struck the woman inside and later called her with a threat to come back and kill her. Christopher J. Holman pleaded guilty Wednesday to home invasion with a firearm, a Class X felony, closing out a case that began with a terrifying break-in nearly two years ago.

Some neighbors thought they heard fireworks around the time the Bears game started at noon Sunday, so they thought nothing of it. Twelve hours later, Mundelein police were called to perform a well-being check on Wellington Avenue after loved ones suddenly became unreachable. It quickly became painfully obvious that the...

LITTLE VILLAGE — The Chicago Police officer involved in an off-duty shooting in Little Village, where he opened fire using two guns simultaneously, was stripped of his police powers last week, the department said. Officer Edgar Delgado-Arroyo was relieved of police powers Tuesday and assigned to the department’s alternate...