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Man Shot Dead In Far South Side Drive-By
Jerrelle Samuels was sitting on the front porch of a home in the 300 block of East 134th Street, when gunfire erupted from dark-colored sedan that passed by.
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Jerrelle Samuels was sitting on the front porch of a home in the 300 block of East 134th Street, when gunfire erupted from dark-colored sedan that passed by.
A "mayday" call, signaling firefighters were in distress, was sent out shortly before 7 a.m. as crews worked to extinguish the fire in the 10500 block of South Ewing Avenue.
A woman and an 11-year-old boy were taken to the hospital early Tuesday, after a fire at a home on the Far South Side.
A CTA bus driver was critically hurt and had to be cut out of a wreck when a bus collided with a dump truck and two other vehicles on the Far South Side Wednesday night.
A rollover crash occurred early Thursday in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the Far South Side after a chase involving south suburban Burnham police.
The crash involved a van or minibus that crashed into a tree.
A man and woman were critically injured in a West Pullman shooting Tuesday night on the Far South Side.
Bond has been set at $200,000 for a 19-year-old man charged with the shooting this week of two boys in the Far South Side Washington Heights neighborhood.
A man in his 20s was fighting for his life Tuesday morning, after being shot multiple times while standing out a Far South Side strip club.
Five men have been killed and at least 23 people were wounded in gun violence on the city's streets from Friday night to Sunday night.
Four men have been killed and at least 20 people were wounded in gun violence on the city's streets from Friday night to early Sunday.
A police officer shot a person in his foot after he allegedly pointed a semi-automatic handgun at him and his partner Sunday night in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
An 11-year-old boy suffered major head injuries and was in a coma after being hit by a car Sunday afternoon on I-57 in the Far South Side Washington Heights neighborhood, according to Illinois State Police.
Eight people, including three children, were hospitalized Tuesday morning after a car slammed into a building housing a religious organization on the city's Far South Side.
Two suspects on bicycles shot and wounded a man in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side late Saturday.
Two people were wounded -- one critically -- in a shooting early Monday in the Far South Side Pullman neighborhood.
Police said they were talking with two "people of interest" after several vehicles were damaged on the Chicago Skyway late Wednesday by thrown rock as they entered the highway on the Far South Side.
A 16-year-old boy from south suburban Sauk Village was killed Friday night in what police are calling a gang-related shooting in the Far South Side Pullman neighborhood.
A man found shot dead at his home in the Far South Side Princeton Park neighborhood has been identified.
Police were searching Friday morning for the shooter who killed one man was killed wounded two others on the city's Far South Side.
A man who was alleged to have fired a gun on a Bridgeport neighborhood street late Saturday was apprehended by police not long afterward, but not before he led police on a pursuit that stretched more than 16 miles south, ending after he abandoned his car in the Far South Side Altgeld Gardens area.
A 41-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head late Saturday on the Far South Side.
At least four people were killed and 19 others wounded in separate shootings throughout the city that took place from late Friday to Saturday night.
Police say the victims, 23, 31, and 45, were standing on the sidewalk with a group of people when someone in a black sedan fired shots.
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The shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. in the 2100 block of West Division Street in the West Town neighborhood.
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But when thieves damaged the AC units, the heat spilled over to inside.
"I am not supposed to be here tonight," former President Donald Trump said. "I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God."
Police say the victims, 23, 31, and 45, were standing on the sidewalk with a group of people when someone in a black sedan fired shots.
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But when thieves damaged the AC units, the heat spilled over to inside.
The robber choked the man, hit him in the head with the pliers, and took his cellphone, police said.
No other injuries were reported, police said.
Mateo was shot in the head in front of his mother and three siblings while riding in the family car in the West Lawn neighborhood.
Police said a 27-year-old man got into an argument with another passenger while riding a CTA bus around 10:20 p.m. in the 300 block of North Cicero Avenue.