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1 killed, 1 hurt while fleeing police in hijacked car: ‘Get that ambulance over here right now’

May 23, 2019 at 12:10 a.m.

One person was killed and another person was seriously hurt after they hijacked a car from an elderly man on the South Side, then crashed while fleeing police Wednesday morning,...

Residents watch as police investigate a shooting in the 2100 block of West Cermak Road in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on Nov. 6, 2017.

2 pedestrians, 67 and 49, shot in Heart of Chicago

May 23, 2019 at 12:08 a.m.

A rolling shootout on Cermak Road in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood left two pedestrians injured Monday afternoon, according to police. The rifle shooting happened about 1:30 p.m. in the...

Chicago Fire Department personnel remove a man found shot in a vacant West Side lot in the 3300 block of West Congress Parkway on Nov. 1, 2017. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital, authorties said.

Man killed on West Side, steps away from where duo plays church music for tips

May 23, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

Paramedics draped a white sheet over a man they had lifted onto the gurney and wheeled him through a vacant lot to an ambulance on Congress Parkway.Across the street near...

Sobbing toddler abandoned by carjackers fleeing in pizza van

May 23, 2019 at 12:06 a.m.

Elizabeth Freeland was tutoring high-school students in math and physics at her Oak Park home Monday night when she heard a loud banging on her front door. A friend of...

A windshield was shattered after shots were fired outside the Irma C. Ruiz Elementary School at 24th and Leavitt streets in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood Monday.

Shots fired as kids play outside South Side elementary school: ‘I just panicked’

May 23, 2019 at 12:06 a.m.

Someone fired a gun at least six times outside a South Side elementary school as kids were on the playground 50 feet away Monday afternoon, according to Chicago police.No one...

A 15-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old boy was wounded Oct. 26, 2017, in a Southwest Side shooting near an alley that parallels 45th Street between Campbell and Maplewood avenues.

A boy shot dead as kids head home from school: ‘I’m afraid to be next’

May 23, 2019 at 12:06 a.m.

A girl in her early teens carrying a heavy red backpack stood at the front steps of a Southwest Side home on Campbell Avenue late Thursday afternoon, hugged a boy...

West Side violence: Triple shootings, double homicide and police firing at man with two guns

May 22, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

Even for the West Side, the last 24 hours had been furiously violent: Three triple shootings and a double homicide within four miles of each other.Thursday evening, two officers were...

Police investigate the scene where police fired shots at an offender who was in the process of shooting at someone outside a store at Madison Street and Keeler Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Aug. 31, 2017.

14 hours in Chicago: Girl, 13, wounded; 5 shot in Lawndale; police fire at gunman

May 22, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

Two men were killed and at least 10 other people were wounded, including a 13-year-old girl a block from her home, during a 14-hour period from late Thursday morning to...

Social media fuels rumors, fights after police shoot at car: ‘Nobody was shot. You can all go home’

May 22, 2019 at 11:51 p.m.

The two women, mothers of young men, cried and shouted as they stood near the Discount Mega Mall in Little Village on Tuesday night. Both heard their sons had been...

1 killed, 6 injured in city shootings

May 22, 2019 at 11:50 p.m.

A man was killed and six others were wounded in city shootings from Tuesday to early Wednesday, including a quadruple shooting that hurt two teenagers in Austin, according to Chicago...

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