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Englewood residents gather for an Operation Wake-Up meeting July 5, 2016, with Chicago police on the corner of 56th Street and Hermitage Avenue. The meeting was set up in response to two children being shot in the block while enjoying Fourth of July festivities.

Cousins, 5 and 8, shot while playing with sparklers: ‘It’s a family block. We never had any problem’

August 21, 2019 at 7:03 p.m.

The Williams family had just finished setting off their Fourth of July fireworks on the block of graystones and bungalows in West Englewood late Monday.Five-year-old Taniyah Williams, her 8-year-old cousin...

Fire personnel transport a teen girl who was shot in the 5100 block of Fulton Street in the South Austin neighborhood late on July 1, 2016.

32 shot in 15 hours in Chicago as holiday weekend draws to close

May 22, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

Thirty-two people were shot in 15 hours between about noon on Monday and 3 a.m. on Tuesday to end the July 4th weekend, doubling the total number of gunshot victims...

Police investigate ‘non-credible’ threat targeting American Airlines flight at O’Hare

May 22, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

Authorities are investigating a threat targeted at an American Airlines flight from London to Chicago that landed safely at O'Hare International Airport on Monday night. American Airlines Flight 91 received...

Top cop on Fourth violence: ‘We’re making progress, it’s not success yet’

May 22, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

A streak of violence during the traditionally chaotic Fourth of July weekend in Chicago left three people dead and roughly three dozen others wounded, most of them in South Side...

At least 33 shot in Chicago so far over Fourth of July weekend

May 22, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

At least 33 people have been shot in Chicago so far this Fourth of July weekend, most of them in traditionally violent neighborhoods on the South and West sides despite...

A police officer and sergeant place evidence markers next to bullet casings on the 8800 block of South Wood Street early Monday, July 4, 2016, in Chicago. A 37-year-old man was shot late Sunday and transported to a hospital.

Shooting in Gresham: ‘I don’t know what happened. I don’t do crime’

May 22, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

Two women leaned against a gray sedan just after midnight and waited for detectives to come to the shooting scene on Wood Street just south of 88th Street in Gresham....

Peoria man dies after being shot in Marquette Park

May 22, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

An 18-year-old Peoria man died Wednesday afternoon about 14 hours after he was shot in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, authorities said. Marshawn Hilson was in the...

Lights flash on a Chicago Police Department bicycles at the scene where six people were shot in the 1600 block of South Christiana Avenue on June 28, 2016, in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.

At least 18 shot, including child, in separate attacks

May 22, 2019 at 10:05 p.m.

At least 18 people, including a 4-year-old boy, were shot between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday in attacks in Chicago, police said. In the attack that wounded the 4-year-old, police...

Chicago police investigate a Northwest Side shooting that wounded two people at Belden Street and Lorel Avenue early on June 30, 2016.

2 dead, 9 wounded in Chicago shootings

May 22, 2019 at 10:05 p.m.

Two men were killed and at least nine other people have been wounded in shootings citywide since Wednesday afternoon, police said. A 26-year-old man was fatally shot about 8:10 p.m....

$1M bail set for man shot by off-duty Cook County sheriff’s deputy

May 22, 2019 at 10:05 p.m.

A judge set bail at $1 million for a man who an off-duty Cook County deputy sheriff shot after seeing him and another man fire shots at a car Sunday...

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