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Army vet slain after returning to Chicago, where he hoped to battle gun violence

May 22, 2019 at 10:20 p.m.

Abner Garcia, a U.S. Army veteran, was just 19 years old when he approached his mother, Elizabeth Juarez, with his decision to enlist. "I supported him. I wanted him to...

Chicago police give first aid to a shooting victim in the 6800 block of South Calumet Avenue on Aug. 11, 2016.

6-year-old South Side girl recovering from gunshot wound

May 22, 2019 at 10:19 p.m.

A 6-year-old girl who was shot in the head while playing with water balloons on a hot summer day was expected to be back home Sunday, her aunt said. Zariah...

6-year-old girl wounded, uncle killed while playing with water balloons

May 22, 2019 at 10:19 p.m.

Her aunt says Zariah Muhammad is a grown-up in a 6-year-old's body, a girl who would rather sit and watch the news than play with dolls. So as she sat...

Chicago police work the scene of a three-car crash at South Morgan Street and West 74th Street late on Aug. 11, 2016.

2 killed and 12 wounded in shootings in Chicago: ‘It’s buck wild around here’

May 22, 2019 at 10:19 p.m.

Two women sat in a van at the edge of a crime scene early Friday, the passenger door swung wide open. They didn't know who had been killed, but it...

Chicago Alderman Joe Moore points to microphones in the auditorium at Senn High School for public comments during a forum on oversight of the Chicago Police Department, held on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016.

North Side residents weigh in on police oversight, accountability

June 11, 2018 at 9:51 p.m.

More than 200 people gathered in a North Side auditorium Tuesday night for a hearing organized by aldermen to gather input on a police accountability ordinance that will be drafted...

Members of the Chicago Police Department look at an evidence marker at the scene of a shooting in the 3100 block of West 83rd Place on Aug. 8, 2016, in the Ashburn neighborhood of Chicago.

Boy, 10, shot on West Side; other shootings leave 7 dead, 11 wounded

May 22, 2019 at 10:18 p.m.

A 10-year-old boy was critically hurt after being shot and at least 18 others were shot, seven of them fatally, since late Monday morning across the city. The boy was...

Hind Makki, head of the Islamic Society of North America conventions program committee, introduces herself to media Aug. 8, 2016, at the Islamic Society of North America center.

Khizr and Ghazala Khan, parents of soldier killed in Iraq, to speak at Muslim convention in Rosemont

May 22, 2019 at 10:18 p.m.

Pakistani immigrants Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son died fighting in Iraq, will be featured speakers at the largest assembly of Muslims in the U.S. and Canada over Labor Day...

O’Neal shooting mobilizes teens to hold Millennium Park police protest

May 22, 2019 at 10:18 p.m.

By the time she finished watching a video from the fatal shooting of Paul O'Neal, 17-year-old Sophia Byrd was in tears. Her friends, who moments before had gathered gingerly around...

Prosecutors: Parolee charged with murder after shooting Bellwood man 15 times

May 22, 2019 at 10:18 p.m.

A 25-year-old man on parole for three armed robbery convictions now is charged with murder after prosecutors say he shot a Bellwood man 15 times outside an apartment complex in...

Cops investigate suspicious materials after Rosemont hotel fire

May 22, 2019 at 10:17 p.m.

Rosemont police are investigating suspicious materials found inside a guest room of a hotel in the northwest suburb that caught fire Thursday afternoon, prompting the evacuation of the 158-room hotel,...

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