Chicago’s Grim Weekend: 4 Lives Lost and 21 Wounded in Scattered Gunfire
A Chilling Tally Emerges (Image Credits: Unsplash) Chicago – Under overcast skies that brought steady drizzle to the streets, the weekend unfolded with a sobering reminder of the city’s ongoing struggle against gun violence. A Chilling Tally Emerges Imagine a citywide wave of gunfire that doesn’t let up, even as the...
Chicago Police Seek Public’s Help in Identifying Suspects After Early Morning CTA Train Robbery...
In the early morning of September 30, a robbery took place aboard a CTA train in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood that left local commuters rattled. According to a community alert issued by the Chicago Police Department, two individuals targeted a citizen for theft on the 1100 block of W. Bryn Mawr Ave., in an...
4 dead, 21 injured in weekend shootings across Chicago
Four people were murdered in Chicago over the just-ended weekend, and 21 others survived gunshot wounds, according to preliminary information from Chicago police. The rain-dampened total of 25 victims ties 2017 as the city’s lowest number for the same weekend since at least 2015, according to HeyJackass, a website...
Police Make Arrests on Warrants in Mendota, Streator
Mendota police served a warrant on a resident over the weekend. On Sunday night at about 10, officers arrested 43-year-old Timothy Donka. He's alleged to have failed to appear in court in Will County to address a charge of retail theft. Donka was taken to the Mendota Police Department and released with a notice to...
Man Living On Boat Near Navy Pier Since April Heads South For Winter: ‘I...
NAVY PIER — Matt Jonkman has nowhere to be and not much to do. And that’s kind of the point. “Am I happy? Very much so,” Jonkman said from behind the wheel of his two-story houseboat, wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a hula girl on his dashboard for even more good fortune. “It’s been an adventure.”
Upset neighbors interrupt federal immigration manhunt in Mount Prospect
MOUNT PROSPECT - Kim Fisher was arriving home from a Sunday morning workout with her husband when she saw them: at least three people in fatigues and masks coming out from her backyard, stepping around a chain link fence. "And I said, ‘What the heck is that?'" said Fisher, a...
Man charged with armed robbery and home invasion at Oak Lawn condo building
A man has been charged robbing another man at gunpoint during a home invasion on Sunday afternoon in Oak Lawn in Chicago's southwest suburbs.
Chicago suburb named among safest cities in U.S. in new report
A Chicago suburb has been named among the safest cities in the country in a new report. Finance site Wallethub released its list of Safest Cities in America for 2025 and only one Illinois spot made the top 50. The ranking looked at more than 180 cities across the U.S.,...
A Tragic Homecoming For Man Killed By ICE Agents In Franklin Park
This story was produced by South Side Weekly, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to producing local journalism that is for, by and about the South Side of Chicago. Sign up for its newsletter here. He came back in a box. A wooden coffin wrapped in cardboard, the kind used to protect...
2 shot inside car on Chicago’s South Side, police say
Chicago police are investigating a shooting on the city's South Side on Monday.
