17-year-old boy shot to death in Bolingbrook home identified by police | Video
A teenager died after being shot inside his house in Bolingbrook, police said. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch The shooting happened around 11 p.m. on Tuesday at a house in the 100-block of Grove Court, according to Bolingbrook police. Officers found a 17-year-old with gunshot wounds in the...
19-year-old high school senior dies after being shot Tuesday night in Morgan Park
CHICAGO — A high school senior who was preparing for prom and graduation died after being shot Tuesday night in Morgan Park on the city’s South Side, leaving behind grieving classmates and a father now hoping for justice. Treyvon Winfield, a 19-year-old soon-to-be graduate of Morgan Park High School, was by his car...
Heroin/Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced To Prison
A convicted drug dealer from LaSalle County was recently shipped off to the Northern Reception Center at the Stateville Correctional Center. Alex Bryant, 30, of Cicero pled guilty to two counts of Manufacturing and Dealing between 15 and 100 grams of heroin, both class X felonies and was sentenced to nine years in...
Terminally ill boy is honorary police officer throughout Missouri and Illinois
DJ’s dad, Theo Daniel , says, his child’s brain cancer has metastasized to his spine and doctors have found three more tumors. Mr. Daniel says they don’t have bad days, despite the inevitable, they are going throughout the country doing God’s work
Woman set up Facebook account to lure victim into carjacking trap: prosecutors
CHICAGO — Prosecutors say a Chicago woman set up a Facebook account so she and her boyfriend could carjack a woman who was selling a car online. Diamond Fleming, 21, was detained by Judge James Costello on a charge of aggravated vehicular hijacking. Charges have not been filed against anyone else.
Detroit ‘Vice Lords’ gang member guilty of racketeering, assault in prison
The Justice Department said Anthony Zigler is part of the AVLN gang and stabbed a fellow inmate at a Michigan jail to maintain his status.
Morgan Park High School student killed in Chicago shooting, loved ones gather for vigil
An 19-year-old high school student was killed in a shooting Tuesday night, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 8:11 p.m. in the 1000 block of West 115th Street in the West Pullman neighborhood, police said. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch Police said the victim was approached...
2 Illinois Companies Submit Notice of Mass Layoffs in June
In the past 30 days, more than 3,000 Illinois workers have learned they were now jobless. It looks like that number will now grow even more as two Illinois companies have just submitted notices to the state that they will begin mass layoffs starting in June. The Illinois Work Net...
Feds seize 18 pounds of horse tranquilizer that may have been destined for street...
CHICAGO — Federal agents in Chicago seized 18 pounds of deadly horse tranquilizer from China that may have been destined for use in street drugs, officials said Wednesday. Customs and Border Protection agents assigned to the cargo center inspected the shipment on April 12 using handheld isotope analysis tools that...
It’s set to be a bad year for ‘very aggressive’ pest species in IL....
This arachnid is also expected to emerge earlier than usual.
