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A gunman walked up on foot and opened fire late Saturday on the 6200 block of South May Street, police say.
Police say a 48-year-old woman died at the scene as a crowd gathered and officers tracked a blood trail across the street.
At least three gunpoint robberies in eight days targeted pedestrians near Lake Meadows, with suspects demanding phone passcodes before fleeing on foot.
Christopher Buckley’s blood-alcohol level hit 0.221% during his Michigan City arrest, records show, and he still won’t leave the November ballot.
Troopers and deputies swarmed a commercial strip near I-65 in Lowell Saturday night, but key details on victims remain unreleased.
A late-night argument with someone inside a white sedan ended in gunfire on South Vincennes Avenue, the same Chatham block where three people died in 2024.
Roxie Ellis Douglas says a delivered double cheeseburger and baked potato triggered a Campylobacter infection and two hospital stays.
Carlos Coleman gets 15 years for instigating the 2020 Bucktown ambush; the shooter already drew 35 years.
A Chicago librarian's Taco Bell chalupa allegedly carried the parasite behind a 17-state outbreak that's already killed two people.
A woman was extricated by firefighters after her Mitsubishi crossed three lanes and struck two trees south of Park Street.
Aaron Rosales is jailed on gun charges after nearly 20 shots hit Santi's Gardens in Highwood; Jose Castrejon-Mancilla remains at large.
A child and three adults were hospitalized after a stolen sedan blew through a Streeterville intersection during a police pursuit.
Quentin Jones allegedly bought the tools used to break into an East Scott Street home. Detectives are still hunting his accomplices.
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