Pair Of Cold Deaths Brings County's Total To 23
At least 23 people have died of cold-related causes in Cook County this season, the most since 2008-09, with the latest being a Humboldt Park man and an Austin woman.
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At least 23 people have died of cold-related causes in Cook County this season, the most since 2008-09, with the latest being a Humboldt Park man and an Austin woman.
A woman who died Thursday at her home in the West Side Austin neighborhood was at least the 23rd cold-related death of the season in Cook County.
Two men were standing in the front vestibule of an apartment building in the 300 block of North Central Avenue about 1:25 a.m. on Dec. 14, when Phillip Allison allegedly entered and opened fire.
About 7:46 p.m., the 19-year-old was shot several times in the abdomen in the 1100 block of North Laramie Avenue.
The two men, 19 and 23, were standing on a sidewalk about 8:20 p.m. in the 1000 block of North Massasoit Avenue when another male approached and started shooting at them.
Another child and an adult were injured, fire officials said.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 9 p.m. found the man, thought to be in his 30's, dead in an alley in the 300 block of North Parkside Avenue.
The fire started just before 5:25 p.m. in a two-story, multi-unit apartment building in the 500 block of South Lavergne Avenue.
He was apparently lying on his couch in the living room of his first floor apartment when seven shots were fired from the outside and bullets came through the window.
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The man threatened to hurt her parents if she did not come with him, but the girl ran away and told an adult, police said in a community alert.
The 36-year-old man was found about 3:50 a.m. in the 5900 block of West Midway Park with gunshot wounds to the chest and head.
The woman, 56, was found at approximately 10 p.m. in the 2000 block of North Narragansett Avenue, or near the Galewood Metra station.
A party was being held in an office rental space in the former Zenith TV plant in the Austin neighborhood, when four armed suspects entered and announced a robbery about 9:45 p.m.
The fire began about 12:35 a.m. in the rear of a two-story frame house in the 4900 block of West Superior Street.
A man was shot and killed in Austin early Sunday morning.
A man was stabbed multiple times trying to break up a fight early Friday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
The boy, 16, was shot multiple times in the leg and thigh about 8 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Central Avenue.
A woman was found dead early Sunday in an alley in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
A teenage girl was sexually assaulted Friday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
A friend found 48-year-old Gregory Daniel about 9:45 p.m. Monday on the bedroom floor of his apartment in the 5300 block of West Adams Street with gunshot wounds to his head and abdomen.
The 30-year-old man was stabbed in the knee by his girlfriend at about 1:25 a.m. in the 800 block of North Massasoit Avenue.
The 26-year-old man was shot in both legs, the side and the shoulder about 2:15 a.m. in the 4600 block of West Madison Street.
The man, in his 20s, was shot in the abdomen about 7 p.m. in the 4800 block of West Superior Street.
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