Chicago crime

CHICAGO (CBS) - Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all criminal charges in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but now faces a new legal battle - who can keep the $ 2 million bond that was posted for him? It's a tangle of possibilities that CBS 2's…

CHICAGO (CBS) - Reverend Jesse Jackson will lead a march through Kenosha, in response to Kyle Rittenhouse's verdict.Reverend Jackson and others plan to retrace the route Kyle Rittenhouse took the night he killed two men and injured a…

When Schindler told him to leave the area again, Garcia ignored his order and continued through the intersection, East Chicago Deputy Chief Jose Rivera said.Schindler approached Garcia a third time, asking if he was a police officer or a…

CHICAGO (WLS) - When you sit across from US attorney John Lausch, one word is sown in the discussion: accountability.Chicago's leading federal lawyer preaches, teaches and respects Accountability 101. It's not just offenders who should be…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Defense attorney angrily accused the prosecution during Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial deny. The lead prosecutor set a measured tone, even as he raised the accused's rifle at one point and aimed at a wall in the!-->…

CHICAGO (CBS) - On Veterans Day, a call to action from community leaders.They are demanding that the Cook County state prosecutor take a fresh look at the murder of a national guard over the weekend of July 4. CBS 2's Meredith Barack…

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JERUSALEM - Security researchers revealed on Monday that spyware from the notorious Israeli hacker company for hire NSO Group was detected on the cellphones of six Palestinian human rights activists, half affiliated with groups the…

The Federal Aviation Administration said it has referred 37 cases involving unruly air passengers to the FBI for possible criminal prosecution since the number of disruptions to flights began to rise in January. FAA and…

With her client heading to Chicago for the first time since her mother's murder in Bali in 2014, an attorney for Heather Mack warned that "it's going to be a war" if federal authorities arrest the infamous Chicagoan who served a little…

As the family and friends of missing University of Illinois student Iñaki Bascaran gathered on Monday to search for clues to his disappearance in Chicago's River North neighborhood, his father provided more…

JOLIET, Ill. - Two people were killed and more than a dozen were injured in a nighttime shooting at a…

CROWN POINT - A judge on Friday sentenced a Griffith man to 47 years in prison for murdering an ex-girlfriend's boyfriend during an argument in 2019 in Calumet Township.Juan Guerrero, 43, shot Jermaine Salazar, 46, five times on May 14,…

Don't feel safe downtown? Try to head towards West Garfield Park. The 16 police crossings that cover most of the greater downtown area have recorded a total of 77 shootings so far this year, tripling the rate of shootings from 2019,…

CHICAGO (CBS) - Police raided all three restaurants in a popular pizza restaurant on Wednesday morning, helping the Illinois Department of Revenue with an unspecified criminal investigation, sources told CBS 2.Investigators outside Parlor…

Chicago Police released video of three suspects in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old in a parked car in the Southwest last month. Azul De La Garza was gunned down around 8:30 p.m. on September 25 in the 5400 block of South Avers…

A 23-year-old man faces felony charges for allegedly stealing merchandise from an upscale accessory store in downtown Chicago on a night of widespread looting in the city last year. At around midnight on August 10, 2020, Taisean Harris…

NEW YORK - A New York jury on Friday convicted a former associate of Rudy Giuliani for making illegal contributions to an election campaign to influence US politicians and advance his business interests. The verdict was delivered in…

An Illinois high school student who posted a racist ad on Craigslist about a "slave for sale" was sentenced to probation and community service on Wednesday, prosecutors said.The Naperville Central High School student posted the ad with a…

For the first time, the family of a bank teller killed in Chicago's River North neighborhood speak of the tragic loss before a vigil that will honor his memory. Jessica Vilaythong, 24, died when a stranger brutally attacked…

CHICAGO (CBS) - A Chicago police officer was shot and injured Monday afternoon in the parking lot of a busy shopping center on North and Sheffield avenues.The officer was shot in the left side of the cheek in the parking lot of the North…

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced in August that all workers in the city of Chicago must be fully immunized against the coronavirus by October 15, following many cities across the United States.…

DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Friday she had taken her fight with the city's police union leader to court, arguing…

COOK COUNTY, Illinois - Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants state lawmakers to crack down on untraceable "ghost guns". Dart argues that the growing number of "ghost guns" in Chicago must be dealt with in Springfield. Handmade…

Annette Freeman will never forget where she was on October 13, 1992. That day changed her life and shook Chicago deeply. “I will never forget that it was Tuesday and they had just returned to school, it was…

A student and a security guard were seriously injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in front of a high school in the Bronzeville district. The 14-year-old and the 45-year-old man were shot and killed at around 3:20 p.m. outside…

While recently being driven into Chicago's gun control utopia, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) claims the driver of a car next to hers leaned out the window and fired a gun into the air. "He might as well have shot us!" said…

The rise in violent crime in Chicago has spilled over, sparking concern among business leaders and leading to internal political struggles among those charged with protecting the city.“We were in the midst of a…

CHICAGO (WLS) - The Chicago Court-Ordered Police Reform Watch Group cited a "high number of vacancies" at the Chicago Police Department impacting community safety and the safety of officers.The latest bulletin on police reforms published…

CHICAGO - A former Northwestern University professor on trial for murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend on Wednesday reiterated his claim that another man committed the crime as he curled up in a nearby bathroom.A…

Chicago's historic crime wave appears to be seeping into the suburbs as two high-end retailers were hit by groups of thieves this week. Fox 32 Chicago reported that seven to eight men stole several handbags from a Bloomingdale's store in…

Chicago PD raises the heat with his latest episode, "The One Next to Me". So far, Season 9's focus has been on Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and her recovery, but it looks like the writers are turning things around and shifting the…

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CHICAGO (WLS) - A woman has been killed in a hit and run after a nearby shooting was reported on Sunday morning in Horner Park, in the northwest of the country.Surveillance video shows the moment a Nissan Rogue carrying two people crashed…

Police arrested Barclay on his return home and took him to hospital because he had an undisclosed injury, Belk said. Join Jerry Patrick, Student Resources Manager, as he…

Every year around this time, Brandon Johnson, the Deputy Coroner for Grundy County walks to a location near Seneca on US Highway 6 and leaves a bouquet of flowers, as well as a laminated photo of a woman he doesn has never…

(WTTW News) With 89 homicides recorded, Chicago experienced its deadliest September in nearly 30 years, according to new data from the Chicago Police Department. The number of shootings and homicides in 2021 continues to exceed 2020…

A man who met Wyndham Lathem on the dating app Grindr said the former Northwestern University professor pulled a knife at him during their only meeting a year before Lathem stabbed his boyfriend to death. "He asked to pretend to stab me…

Fifteen people, including three teenagers, were injured in shootings in Chicago on Wednesday. Two men were shot dead after arguing with two other people on Wednesday morning in Pilsen on the South Side. The men, 29 and 25, were shot…

CHICAGO (CBS) - The auto-hijacking crisis in Chicago continues, with a record increase in crime. From the start, CBS 2's Tara Molina has followed the case of a woman who was the victim of a carjacking in Bucktown. She is monitoring the…

CROWN POINT - A jury in Lake Criminal Court deliberated for about two hours Monday before finding a 19-year-old guilty of murdering a Hammond mother four years ago.Omarion E. Wilbourn, 19, of Hammond, declined to testify in his six-day…

Chicago-based multi-state car theft ring "stole" cars from numerous luxury dealers using fake ID to set up financing for high-end cars, Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Tuesday. at a press conference with prosecutors for Cook and…

A gang of shoplifters was caught on camera brazenly ransacking a Chicago beauty store as it was revealed that three organized gangs of thieves were targeting city stores.The clip was shot at a UIta beauty store in the Windy City suburb of…

A college professor who was charged with multiple crimes after allegedly yelling racial slurs and spitting at a black woman in a suburban grocery store earlier this month has quit his job. Alberto Friedmann "resigned" on…

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled her proposed $ 16 billion municipal budget this week. Now city council deliberations are underway on the budget plan, which has surprised some alders with its progressive leaning. “Our…

In this undated photo provided by her niece Seraphine Warren, Navajo carpet weaver Ella Mae Begay, 62, is shown. Begay is one of thousands of missing Indigenous women in the United States (AP Photo) SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - In the three…

CHICAGO (WLS) - More than three thousand people accused of crimes currently wear ankle bracelets in Cook County so authorities can track them; a peak of over 30 percent in electronic surveillance here and a half last year. Many have been…

The families of three men who were killed in an explosion near Starved Rock State Park in May filed a lawsuit Wednesday afternoon against several construction and blasting companies who the complaint said left behind a rod…

CHICAGO - As Chicago enters another explosive year for gun violence, Mayor Lori Lightfoot tries to help quell the bloodshed by pushing for an ordinance that allows the city to sue gang members to seize their property - a decision that many…

Colin Donnell is back in the NBCUniversal family with his next role.The Chicago Med and Arrow The star is…

By Jérémy GornerChicago Tribune CHICAGO - Every year, the Chicago Police Department's firearms lab receives…

Isaiah (Zay) Manning was leaving a convenience store in his Chicago Bronzeville neighborhood in the middle of the day when the bullets started flying in July 2018. “It was like boom. I was like, 'Oh, I got…

The September 2011 murder of Linda Tyda, 70, of Illinois, by her stepdaughter Misook Wang, then 46, is a chilling reminder that family ties can bind - and they can kill, too. The motive for the murder? Money,…

CHICAGO - The so-called sneaky TikTok lick bathroom challenge that has lured teens from across the country…

CHICAGO - A DePaul University student was stabbed in a robbery outside a North Side bar early Saturday, according to Chicago police and the university.Just after 2 a.m., the 19-year-old college student was in a bar on the…

Three Chicago aldermen face criminal charges in federal…

Federal authorities in Chicago are targeting gun traffickers with a "strike force" unveiled earlier this year - and they say they are ready to replace local rulings with additional federal charges if they believe it is…

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Chicago Police are on track to recover more than 12,000 firearms this year, a record and more than New York and Los Angeles combined. But these numbers are very different depending on where you are in the city. And although…

Cook County State Attorney's Office Kim Foxx has opened an investigation into the Chicago Park District's handling of allegations of widespread sexual violence against lifeguards at the city's beaches and public swimming pools, according…

KATHERINE ROSENBERG-DOUGLAS Chicago Tribune Cook County prosecutors said Fallon Harris shot dead her 12-year-old son over the weekend over a missing digital…

Dozens of Chicago police officers will soon be assigned to specialized units targeting gangs and guns as part of a new city-wide crime suppression strategy, the city's police commissioner revealed on Friday. Officers from…

Rising crime in River North calls for more police officers After the recent surge of violent crime in the heart of downtown, Warden of the 2nd Ward, Brian Hopkins, is calling for more police. CHICAGO - After the recent surge of…

Al Capone's chests inside a decrepit Chicago hotel were hopelessly…

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The first images of the Chicago PD The Season 9 premiere has arrived to give us a first look at the upcoming ninth season of NBC's crime drama One Chicago. While the photos offer our first glimpses of most of the Intelligence Unit back…

Bail was denied Sunday to a 26-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a drunken woman on Lower Michigan Avenue shortly after meeting her downtown last week. Anthony Brown, of Lawndale, has been charged with counts of aggravated…

One person was killed and four others injured in a mass shooting on the West Side on Sunday. Officers responded to a call around 1 a.m. in the 3400 block of West Lake Street and found five people - four men and one woman - shot dead,…

At least seven people have been killed and 34 others have been injured in gun violence throughout the city since Friday evening. One person was killed and two others were injured outside a gas station on Saturday morning in Austin on…

CHICAGO - A newborn baby found Wednesday morning in a drawer of a dresser apparently thrown in a Chicago alley is in good condition, authorities said.Paramedics were called into Chicago's Montclare neighborhood around 8…

Not long after college, in the late 1960s, I was visiting friends on the northwest side of Chicago who were…

ALBANY, NY - A woman who accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of groping her breasts at the governor's state residence has filed a criminal complaint against him, the Albany County Sheriff's Office said on Friday. The complaint, filed Thursday…

CHICAGO (CBS) - There is a new push to help you respond and register any kind of community danger. A group of Chicago men are developing an app to make it happen. Willie Samuel's roots lie on the West Side of Chicago.READ MORE: United…

CHICAGO (WLS) - For a little while, at least, the summer evening at Garfield Park was about as perfect as it gets.A little dancing music, food and community mixed freely in the warm air for a National Night Out event. And there was…

The only Illinois governor to be impeached and removed from office was back at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago on Monday, but this time it was of his own accord - rather than in as an accused in criminal proceedings…

Criminality. COVID. Corruption. The three Cs of hungry Chicago media. Although COVID's deadly new cousin, the Delta variant, sounded the latest alarm, the city has been caught in a nightmare. It affects all areas, including the city's…

The city is expanding a program that aims to stop people from committing a drug offense and, instead, puts them in treatment. The Narcotics Diversion Program, launched in 2018 on the West Side, referred more than 700 people in 11 eligible…

Supporters of the Empowering Communities for Public Safety plan call for greater police accountability at a rally on April 21, 2021 (Heather Cherone / WTTW News) A proposal to create an elected Chicago Residents Council to oversee the…

NORTH LAWNDALE - West Side leaders know they face difficult battles to create safer communities. The violence shaking their neighborhoods - including two mass shootings over the weekend - results from deep-rooted issues, they say. To…

Gun violence is on the rise in Chicago and across the country. Over the weekend, there were more than 44 separate shooting incidents in the city. The impact of this violence is felt not only by the victims, but also by their families…

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On March 11, 2002, at approximately 1:57 p.m., Illinois State Police responded to a complaint about the discovery of human skeletal remains near milepost 23 on Interstate 70 (eastbound) near Collinsville. , Illinois. The complaint came…

One of the reasons Chicagoans might have trouble getting their non-emergency calls to the city answered is that officers at the Chicago Police Department's non-emergency call center struggled to answer. the performance expectations of…

It was a tragic murder case: the story of a thriving prep school graduate who had everything to hope for in his life. Instead, Andrew Suh said he was trapped in a crime that ended a life and ruined his own. The murder of…

A tricycle and two motorcycles marked the spot where a 2-year-old boy and a man were seriously injured outside a house in West Humboldt Park on Tuesday evening. Detectives buckled the bikes and worked on the scene while doctors at…

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will welcome Democratic candidate for New York City mayor and other city and law enforcement leaders from across the country to talk about reducing crime. Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President !-->…

CHICAGO (CBS) - As the weekend approaches, Chicago's shopping districts are bracing for trouble and calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot for help. Store owners say the violence over the past weekend could signal shoppers to stop coming…

CHICAGO (WLS) - A rally on the south side of Chicago calls for peace this weekend.Father Michael Pfleger of Saint Sabina leading a Friday night peace rally. This follows the holiday weekend which saw 100 people gunned down across…

CHICAGO (WLS) - Raising 11 kids in one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods is undoubtedly a challenge for Tamara Fenton, but she never thought her 16-year-old would find her way there. She was devastated when her ninth child was…

CHICAGO (CBS) - Close it. This is the message from a North Side city councilor regarding an Airbnb rental issue. A woman was shot dead after leaving the house over the weekend, and it is not the first time that police have been called…

Protests against President Jair Bolsonaro spread across Brazil on Saturday, a day after a Supreme Court judge authorized a criminal investigation into his response to allegations of potential corruption involving a vaccine…

CHICAGO - A Chicago grandmother seeks custody of her three grandchildren after their father was brutally murdered in Mexico last year. Maria, Regina and Johann Vargas were left alone on the streets of Cancun last year after…

A one-month-old girl was among seven people injured in a mass shooting Thursday night in Englewood on the South Side. At approximately 8:15 p.m., three men jumped out of a black Jeep Cherokee in the 6500 block of South Halsted and…

In December, Manhattan attorney Jennifer Bonjean appeared in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court arguing that it should overturn Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction.The court agreed on Wednesday, finding that a non-prosecution agreement…

CHICAGO (WLS) - Reverend Marvin Hunter, Laquan McDonald's great-uncle, reacts to President Joe Biden's anti-crime plan and begs Chicagoans to stop killing each other.Surrounded by other people and the mothers of those who have lost loved…

A man reportedly rammed a stolen truck into a house before fatally shooting a retired Black Massachusetts State Soldier and Black Air Force veteran on Saturday, police said. Authorities said they were investigating the incident as a…

A bill awaiting the signature of Governor JB Pritzker would repeal the state's law on criminal transmission of HIV. The law currently prohibits people living with HIV from having unprotected sex without disclosing their status to their…

Mayor Lightfoot and Newsmax reporter clash over Chicago crime: "You've lost control of the city" Tensions grew high on Friday night when Newsmax reporter William Kelly asked Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot about violent crime in the…

CHICAGO (WLS) - As violence in Chicago continues to escalate, a Chicago community organization is guiding young people through the criminal justice system and, hopefully, away from it.“I had a pretty powerful experience…