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Boy, 16, in critical condition after being shot on Southwest Side
A 16-year-old boy was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition after being found shot twice in the chest early Saturday afternoon in an alley in the 7900 block of South...
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Person grazed by bullet in Back of the Yards
A person was grazed by a bullet Saturday morning in Back of the Yards on the South Side. The male, whose age was not known, walked in to a fire station at 9:53 a.m. suffering from a graze wound to the...
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Man, 36, shot, wounded in Hyde Park
A 36-year-old man was shot and wounded Saturday in Hyde Park. He was shot in the buttocks and leg just before 6 p.m. when two people walked up to him in the 5300 block of South Maryland Avenue and...
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Man shot dead on Northwest Side
A 23-year-old man died hours after being shot in the Hermosa neighborhood Sunday night on the Northwest Side. Officers responding to a call of shots fired just after 7 p.m. in the 1900 block of North...
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3 wounded in drive-by shooting in Logan Square
Three men were shot and wounded Thursday night by someone in a passing van in the 2600 block of West Fullerton Avenue Logan Square. The police said it happened around 9:30 p.m., as two of the wounded,...
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Man tells cops he was shot in leg on Eisenhower exit ramp
A man told police he was shot in the leg while driving on the Eisenhower Expressway early Friday on an exit ramp at Kostner Avenue. He showed up at Stroger Hospital around 1:30 a.m., according to the...
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Driver critical after being shot in the face on Lake Shore Drive
A 41-year-old man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition early Friday after being shot in the face while driving on Lake Shore Drive downtown, police said. Around 1:30 a.m.,...
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Man shot to death in Englewood apartment
A man was shot to death early Monday in an Englewood neighborhood apartment on the South Side. Mark Higgins Jr., 28, was found about 4 a.m. with gunshot wounds to the head and chest on the kitchen...
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Man, 20, shot, wounded at South Side store
A 20-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to a leg and his buttocks when someone shot into a store in the 7100 block of South State Street in Park Manor on the South Side shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday,...
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Man, 51, shot to death in drive-by attack in East Garfield Park
A 51-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday in East Garfield Park on the West Side, police said. He was shot in the back shortly after 2:30 a.m. as he stood outside in the 600...
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Man, 41, shot behind the ear while driving on the South Side
A 41-year-old man drove himself to a hospital after being shot behind his right ear while driving just after 5 a.m. Tuesday in the 4500 block of South Wood Street in Back of the Yards on the South...
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Woman, 25, grazed by gunfire during dice game in Lawndale
A 25-year-old woman was grazed on the left side of her head by a gunshot fired by someone who came out of an alley as the woman was playing dice with a group of people in the 4100 block of West 19th...
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Man, 38, shot in the shoulder on the South Side
A 38-year-old man was shot in the shoulder by someone who pulled up in a Jeep Cherokee as he sat in a parked vehicle around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of East 93rd Street in Burnside on the...
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2 women shot, wounded on the Northwest Side
Two women were shot and wounded around 12:15 a.m. Friday as they rode in a vehicle in the 2400 block of North Meade Avenue in Belmont Central on the Northwest Side. The police said one of them, 19...
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Man, 42, shot in leg while driving in Humboldt Park
A 42-year-old man was shot in the left leg early Friday while driving in Humboldt Park. It happened at 4:10 a.m., as he was driving in the 3500 block of West Augusta Boulevard, according to the police,...
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Funeral director has up-close view of impact of Chicago violence
The families file in to Leak & Sons Funeral Home, grieving lost loved ones, most of them young black men, and begging for help to foot funeral and burial costs. After 17 people were killed last...
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Chicago cops, ATF using gun matching to seek stiffer penalties
The Chicago Police Department and federal agents in Chicago are using advanced ballistics tests to try to link recovered guns to unsolved crimes — and sometimes seek tougher penalties for people caught...
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Davis: Family ‘holding up quite well’ after grandson’s slaying
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis says his family is “holding up quite well” after the shooting death of his 15-year-old grandson, Javon Wilson. Davis spoke to reporters Sunday afternoon outside of his office at...
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Close-to-home murders another element of Chicago’s violent year
When Javon Wilson, the 15-year-old grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, was shot to death in his Englewood home Friday evening, he became homicide victim No. 701 in Chicago this year. But Wilson also...
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Man, 19, shot to death in East Garfield Park
A man was shot to death early Thursday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 1:16 a.m. found the 19-year-old man with gunshot wounds...
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