Peter Nickeas – Page 8

Felix Kombwa, 26, plays with a young boy he is mentoring at a park in Oak Park on Friday, July 12, 2019. Kombwa is mentoring children for Friends of the Children, a national group with a West Side presence.

‘Staggering’ number of children exposed to violence in Chicago; new study says kid population greater in high-homicide areas

July 15, 2019 at 6:59 a.m.

Over the Fourth of July holiday, Felix Kombwa brought the children he mentors to a festival where a law-enforcement exhibit allowed visitors to sit in a squad car, try on...

How did an inmate get a loaded gun into Cook County Jail?

July 10, 2019 at 2:32 p.m.

A crime suspect managed to smuggle a loaded handgun into Cook County Jail after Chicago police officers and then jail officers missed the weapon in at least two separate searches,...

Rauquaia Hale-Wallace and her husband, Charles Wallace, outside their home in the Gresham neighborhood of Chicago on July 1, 2019. The couple has experienced homelessness.

Thousands of Chicago’s homeless have jobs, some college education, contrary to stereotypes, new study says

July 2, 2019 at 11:17 a.m.

A report to be released Tuesday by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless estimates that 18,000 homeless people in the city have completed some college and another 13,400 have some...

Family and friends carry the casket of 10-year-old Gustavo Garcia to Immaculate Conception Catholic Church for his funeral on July 25, 2017. A suspect in his slaying is under indictment.

Indictments against 17 alleged gang members announced after 11 homicides in Chicago and Indiana

June 21, 2019 at 9:44 p.m.

Seventeen members of the Latin Dragon street gang were charged in a sweeping indictment unsealed Friday morning alleging the group is responsible for 11 murders and 23 other shootings, stabbings...

El 25 de julio de 2017, familiares y amigos sepultaron se despidieron de Gustavo 'Tavo' García, de 10 años, en la Iglesia Católica de la Inmaculada Concepción en su funeral.

17 supuestos pandilleros acusados tras 11 asesinatos en Chicago e Indiana

June 21, 2019 at 3:34 p.m.

Diecisiete pandilleros de los Latin Dragon fueron acusados ??formalmente en una acusación sin sellar el viernes por la mañana, en la que se les imputa 11 asesinatos y 23 tiroteos,...

Police warn against using gun-shaped cellphone cases after traffic stop encounter; cases are banned in Chicago

June 5, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

Police have put out a public plea asking people not to use cellphone cases shaped like guns after encountering one during a traffic stop and mistaking it for a real...

La Policía advierte sobre el uso de fundas de teléfono con forma de pistola

June 5, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

Las autoridades piden a la ciudadanía no usar fundas de teléfonos celulares con forma de pistola, después de encontrarse con una durante una parada de tráfico y confundirla con una...

Man who said he accidentally fell on his baby daughter is now charged with aggravated battery in her death, authorities say

June 5, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

A Will County man has been charged in connection to what authorities say was the beating death of his 10-week-old daughter. The infant, Kora Middono, was airlifted to Lurie Children's...

Judy Celio comforts her son Jalen Ivy, fatigued from his first full day of physical therapy at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab on Feb. 12, 2018.

Jalen’s journey: Paralyzed by a bullet meant for someone else, a 12-year-old boy searches for a ‘new normal’

May 23, 2019 at 1:19 a.m.

Some mornings, Jalen Ivy wakes from his dreams and cries. In his dreams, he can walk. Fireworks agitate the 12-year-old. He jumps at sudden noises and jokes it’s “horror therapy”...

A 37-year-old man was killed and a 41-year-old man was in critical condition after a shooting around 9:45 p.m. Aug. 8, 2018, in Far South Side's Washington Heights neighborhood

2 killed, 6 hurt in shootings on South, West sides

May 23, 2019 at 1:09 a.m.

Two men were killed and six people were hurt in shootings on the city’s South and West sides on Wednesday and early Thursday, according to Chicago police. Most recently, about...

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