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Keante McShan, 23, pleaded guilty to murdering Cove Lounge bartender Diego Damis as he walked home from his shift in 2022.
Tyler Wright let children as young as 12 handle loaded guns in his Calumet Heights home before Dalilah Batey was fatally shot.
A 600 block Van Buren robbery and a River North holdup 90 minutes later may be linked, as Area Three detectives dig into both cases.
Joseph Donelson Jr. struck a teller and leapt over a counter during his 2023 heists, prosecutors say.
An unidentified man died at Waukegan and Old Mill roads, the same Lake Forest crossing where a car struck a freight train weeks earlier.
No injuries were reported after a 64-year-old driver missed a parking spot on Hennepin Drive and drove straight through the storefront.
The woman was hit in the chest and back around 7:30 a.m. and died at U. of C. Medical Center. No suspect is in custody.
Jordan Watkins, 38, faces mandatory life if convicted after a habitual criminality charge was added to his case.
Chicago police released suspect descriptions after two young men robbed a 17-year-old on a Blue Line train near UIC-Halsted.
A late-July clash outside the East Side warehouse now lands one demonstrator with a federal charge as renovation work quietly moves forward.
A 37-year-old man died after an unknown woman opened fire on him along a South Shore corridor with a recent history of gunfire.
Isaac Anderson shot Oral Woods five times on a Red Line car in 2022, then fled — police caught up with him days later.
A child was struck near 20th Street and Honore Avenue Wednesday afternoon; fire officials initially sought a medical helicopter.
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