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A Roseland man has been charged with taking part in a series of violent robberies targeting passengers on the Red Line earlier this year. Chicago police said 22-year-old Vaughn Jackson was among a group that attacked and robbed a 45-year-old man aboard a train near Garfield around 5:15 p.m. on January 5.

Two men were taken into custody following a shooting in Chicago Lawn early Tuesday morning. Just before 1 a.m., Chicago police said a 37-year-old man was inside his car on the 6500 block of South Oakley Avenue when two armed men approached on bikes. According to police, the men fired...

PLANetizen - 11/09/2025 03:00:00 PM. In the wake of increasing ICE raids, tenant advocates in Chicago are urging city leaders to halt eviction filings as immigrant workers miss rent payments. The advocates cite the COVID-19 pandemic eviction moratorium as a precedent. Mayor Brandon Johnson and Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez...

Following a viral confrontation with Gov. JB Pritzker at a Veterans Day event, Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez tells ChicagoLIVE he stands by his questions about taxing corporations and supporting working families. He also discusses why he’s weighing an independent run for Congress in Illinois’ 4th District.

CHICAGO — A felony charge has been filed against a Chicago man in connection with the death of a two-month-old baby boy on the Far South Side back in April. Chicago police say 23-year-old Anthony Evans, a Roseland resident, has been charged with one felony count of murder with the strong probability of death or […]

A migrant is accused of attacking a coworker with a concrete saw at a construction site in Chicago, Illinois. The accused was identified as 26-year-old Augustin Gomes Granadillo of Venezuela, CWB Chicago reported on Wednesday. The incident happened on June 23 at the construction site on South Kedvale Avenue when...

A Chicago man was arrested Wednesday night after multiple agencies were involved in a high speed pursuit across Grundy, Kendall, and DeKalb counties, according to the Morris Police Department. Ottawa police had initially tried to stop a vehicle driven by 34-year-old Keaon Johnson when he stopped and fled on foot...

A man and a child were seriously injured early Thursday morning after an apartment fire on Chicago's Far South Side, Chicago fire officials said.

A Chicago man was charged with dealing meth and cocaine after getting off an Amtrak train in Naperville, police and prosecutors said.

A Cook County judge on Tuesday handed a 10-year prison term to a 19-year-old Chicago man for his role in the gunpoint theft of an 83-year-old woman’s Rolls-Royce in Beverly. The June carjacking rattled the victim but left her physically unharmed. Prosecutors say Trevon Robinson pleaded guilty to a...