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Summer 2025 violence: Tracking shootings across Chicago | Live updates
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday, June 20 marked the first day of summer in Chicago. The city normally sees an uptick in violence as ...
Douglass Park shooting not lifeguard’s first accusation of shooting without justification
A Chicago Park District lifeguard accused of shooting two teens last week, killing one, is the same man who avoided charges ...
Accused Douglass Park gunman shot her dogs two years ago, Lake View woman says
Jacqui Korvas Michels wasn't surprised to learn that a neighbor who shot her dogs in February 2023 in Lake View, killing one, ...
Chicago shootings: At least 20 shot, 3 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city, police say
At least 20 people have been shot, three fatally, in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.
1 killed, 2 wounded in shooting on Chicago's South Side; 6-year-old boy injured by broken glass
Police said, shortly before 4 p.m., the victims were inside a business in the 800 block of East 63rd Street, when two people ...
Man gets 20-year prison term in 2023 shooting death of 9-year-old Matteson boy
Daekwon Robinson will serve 20 years in prison for shooting and killing 9-year-old Omiuri Jones-Bown outside his Matteson ...
Chicago cop who inadvertently shot and killed his partner has a lengthy disciplinary record in a short career
A young Chicago cop had racked up more than a dozen misconduct complaints by the time authorities say he inadvertently shot ...
Man found shot to death in Bucktown, police say
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was found shot to death on the city's Northwest Side early Saturday morning, Chicago police said. Officers responded to a call about a shooting in the Bucktown neighborhood's ...