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Mitchell: Parkway Gardens ground zero for Chicago’s violence
Follow @MaryMitchellCST Parkway Gardens, a historic housing complex that stretches between 63rd and 65th streets on King Drive, is ground zero for Chicago’s violence. The complex had more shootings...
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Three days in Chicago: three kids shot, two killed
Three children were shot in Chicago in less than three days — two fatally — with the third still in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her head. None was old enough to attend high school. One...
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Photos: Man shot to death in Avondale
A man walking to a bus stop with his girlfriend Thursday morning was gunned down in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Sun-Times photos by Ashlee Rezin
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City expands ShotSpotter sensors and gunfire intelligence centers
The city is doubling the number of high-crime police districts equipped with ShotSpotter gunfire detectors and other technology that helps to deploy officers to the places where gun violence is...
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Fistfight preceded shooting near criminal courthouse
The Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen across the street from the Cook County Criminal Courthouse does a brisk business most mornings, so there were plenty of witnesses on hand when a 22-year-old man was shot...
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Sneed: Trump calls on Chicago FOP chief to talk gun violence
Sneed is told Chicago Fraternal Order of Police chief Dean Angelo, who represents the Chicago Police Department’s embattled and embittered rank and file, has been summoned to Washington, D.C., to meet...
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Pair convicted in shooting of hoops coach get 59-year sentences
A Cook County judge Thursday handed down 59-year prison sentences to two men convicted in a shooting that left former Marshall High School assistant basketball coach Shawn Harrington paralyzed....
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Man shot in buttocks in Washington Park
A man was in good condition after being shot in the buttocks Friday afternoon in the South Side Washington Park neighborhood. The 27-year-old was shot about 3:10 p.m. in the 5200 block of South Calumet...
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Man dies after shooting, chase ends in front of Cook County courthouse
A frantic woman parked her bullet-pocked SUV in front of the Cook County Criminal Courthouse on Friday, screaming for help for her wounded boyfriend, who later died, witnesses said. The 26-year-old...
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Two men, two teens wounded in drive-by shooting in Austin
Four people, including two teenage boys, were wounded in a drive-by shooting Tuesday morning in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. The victims were walking in the 300 block of North Central...
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Two men, including 72-year-old, shot in North Lawndale
Two men, including a 72-year-old, were wounded in a shooting Thursday morning in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. The victims, ages 37 and 72, were in a vehicle at 10:59 a.m. in the...
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Fearing Labor Day violence surge, CPD arrests 90 out of 177 targets
Hoping to lessen the predicted violence over the long Labor Day weekend in the city, police are in the midst of a number of raids to get potential troublemakers off the streets. As of Friday morning,...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Brian Jasso died because Chicago let him down
This time the victim was 15 years old, just a kid. He was delivering newspapers to make money to buy a birthday gift for his sister. He wouldn’t take a hand-out from his stepfather. He said he had to...
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Man found dead on Brown Line train; Washington Park shooting | March 16, 2018
Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight. At 10:57 p.m., a 50-year-old man was shot while delivering food in the Washington Park neighborhood...
View ArticleSenior citizen, 88, allegedly shot prostitute in leg during argument over money
When threatened by a prostitute for not producing the cash during an agreed upon sex transaction, her 88-year-old customer grabbed a handgun from beneath his pillow and shot her in the leg, Cook County...
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2 killed in motorcycle crash; fatal stabbing | March 23, 2018
Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight. Two people were killed early Friday when the motorcycle they were riding on crashed into a...
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Weekend bloodbath becomes political shrapnel in race for mayor
The weekend bloodbath that left 71 people shot and 12 people dead has become political shrapnel in the heated race for mayor of Chicago. Fired Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was the first...
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Rahm Emanuel vows hundreds more cops — but wants ‘attitudinal change’ in city
Chicago police Supt. Eddie Johnson announced Tuesday that hundreds of additional officers will be put on the streets this week in neighborhoods wracked by gun violence as the city reels from its...
View ArticleFOP ties weekend violence to ‘war on police’ that includes consent decree
The weekend bloodbath that left 71 people shot — 12 fatally — could be “a hint of what it is to come if the war on police continues” with a consent decree imposing “drastic new police oversight,” the...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel gave right message on violence, even if he was the wrong messenger
Mayor Rahm Emanuel stepped on a lot of toes this past week when he spoke bluntly about the role family values plays in reducing gun violence. “This may not be politically correct, but I know the power...
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Lives lost: These are the victims of Chicago’s bloodiest weekend of 2018
These are stories of the lives Chicago lost last weekend, the bloodiest all year in a city that’s become all too well known for violence. From 5 p.m. Aug. 3 until 5 a.m. Monday, 71 people were shot in...
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Family of woman killed near Ohio Street tunnel never told man briefly was...
Raven Lemons, an innocent victim shot dead last year near the Ohio Street pedestrian tunnel under Lake Shore Drive, was a kind soul who gave everyone she met the benefit of the doubt. “She was...
View ArticleGrieving mother ‘did what I could do as a mother, he kept getting into trouble’
Debra West would be the first to tell you her son was no saint. “I don’t hide it. I may be ashamed of it,” she told me, “but I don’t hide it.” Her son, Kendall Brown, 26, was one of 12 people killed...
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13-year-old boy charged after fatal shooting at West Side basketball tournament
A 13-year-old boy has been charged in connection with a shooting that left a teenager dead and another wounded outside the Garfield Park fieldhouse on Thursday. The 13-year-old faces one juvenile count...
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Man fatally shot sitting on porch, fire rips through Maple Tree Inn | Aug. 24
Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight. Two people were killed and four others were wounded Thursday in a series of shootings...
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