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73-year-old Naperville man fatally shot in North Austin
A 73-year-old west suburban man was shot to death while driving in the North Austin neighborhood early Friday on the West Side. At 2:20 a.m., Ronald L. Allen was driving in the 1300 block of North...
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Family: $2,000 reward for info in shooting of rapper on I-290
Johnathon Ortiz rapped under the stage name “John Doe,” but he was on his way to being anything but anonymous. Two months ago, Ortiz was a year into working on his music career full time. The...
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Man, 18, critically hurt in Marquette Park shooting
A man was shot and critically wounded Friday morning in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The 18-year-old was walking at 8:37 a.m. in the 6300 block of South Rockwell when two...
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Man shot dead in parked car in Bronzeville
A man shot to death late Thursday in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side has been identified as a 28-year-old Auburn Gresham resident. Someone walked up to Dante J. Swanson about 11:15 p.m....
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Man shot in the knee in Lawndale
A man was shot late Friday night in Lawndale on the West Side. The 23-year-old said he was on the sidewalk about 11:10 p.m. in the 3900 block of West Grenshaw when someone pulled up in a vehicle and...
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Mayor: 4,368 shootings have neither one cause nor one cure
The scourge of gun violence that plagued Chicago in 2016 is unacceptable. It breaks the hearts of all who care about our great city. Over the past five years I have looked into the eyes of parents and...
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Families worry about 2 girls, 11 and 12, in critical condition
Two girls — one 11, the other 12 — were shot in the head in separate incidents on Saturday night. Police and family believe they were struck by stray bullets. Takiya Holmes, 11, didn’t have time to...
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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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