Video: Axe thrown, car stolen during wild road rage incident
Tom Cunningham and Ewelina Siuta recalled the moment of a road rage incident on Monday afternoon on the city's Southwest Side that continued to escalate.
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Tom Cunningham and Ewelina Siuta recalled the moment of a road rage incident on Monday afternoon on the city's Southwest Side that continued to escalate.
Video captured by Ewelina Siuta showed the confrontation between two drivers that escalated, where an axe was thrown, and one of the drivers stole the other's vehicle.
"I thought he was going to kill him." Those are the words of a woman as she watched her 73-year-old husband get attacked by a man during a road rage incident last month in Oak Lawn.
Bowen Zhang, 29, was charged in the alleged road rage shooting on northbound I-55 on Wednesday, Illinois State Police said.
A jury has convicted a Lake in the Hills man of a 2020 road rage murder in Elgin.
It's been one week since a man was beaten to death with a baseball bat after a road rage incident. As the person responsible is still on the run, his family and friends are raising money to send his body back to El Salvador.
A man was beaten to death with a baseball bat after a road rage incident Friday afternoon in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.
Illinois State Police said Cameron Jackson-Bey, 33, shot at the victim during a road rage incident on Friday afternoon on Interstate 94.
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Chicago police said the 8-year-old was inside a tan SUV with her family when they were involved in a fight with people inside a white SUV.
Chicago police said a man was injured in a shooting stemming from a road rage incident on Lake Shore Drive Tuesday morning.
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Reco Murry, 27, was charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm after shooting at a woman following a traffic crash.
A grandfather was dropping off his grandson for school when he said he was merging lanes when he accidentally hit another car.
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Police said the bicyclist and driver exchanged words when the driver saw the bicyclist going the wrong way down Miner Street, and the bicyclist ended up stabbing the driver.
Jerrell W. Harris was charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm stemming from the shooting, police said.
Daniel Morales, 40, of Chicago, was charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm.
Nicholas Ortiz, 24, appeared in court Sunday morning charged with one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm at a person or vehicle.
The shooter also had both a Firearm Owners Identification card and a Concealed Carry License, and he will not be charged, police said.
Police called the incident isolated, and said there was no danger to the public.
It was unclear late Tuesday whether anybody was in custody following the incident in Schiller Park. Marybel Gonzalez reports.
The latest robbery happened on Tuesday in the Woodlawn neighborhood, police said.
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A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
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Unionized health care workers this week took aim at Northwestern Medicine, saying the health care system needs to hire more people before expanding the emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Tuesday that its recommendations for childhood vaccines will not be affected by a change in federal guidelines.
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The Lincolnwood Town Center mall in the north Chicago suburb of Lincolnwood has been sold to a developer, the village announced Wednesday.
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The Chicago Bears are expanding their search for a new stadium to Northwest Indiana, even though they already own land in Arlington Heights and have also proposed a new lakefront stadium in Chicago.
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It marks the second lawsuit in recent months accusing the filmmaker and studio mogul of leveraging his power in Hollywood to make sexual advances.
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The message, aired on Channel 4 on Christmas Day, reflected on the impact of President Trump's second term in office thus far.
A Chicago Public Schools teacher is still missing but her car has been found and towed by police, her husband said Wednesday.
Hours after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, people gathered under the Little Village arch to denounce the Trump administration's immigration enforcement and remember the victim and her family.
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The deadly Minneapolis shooting by an ICE agent recalls shootings by federal immigration agents in Chicago during the height of Operation Midway Blitz.
An ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis Wednesday morning, DHS officials said.
Severe flu season is sending many people to local emergency rooms across the country, including in the Chicago area.
Police in Aruba are investigating the death of two tourists from the Chicago area.
The latest robbery happened on Tuesday in the Woodlawn neighborhood, police said.
Fire department officials in Chicago's western suburbs said drone technology has been helping keep firefighters safe and make a major impact on public safety.
With the stores becoming a common target for thieves, some of the stores in the Chicago area are taking new steps to fight back.
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This was the Redbirds' first time in this game since 2014, and they left empty-handed.
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A Wisconsin man accused of sending the state Supreme Court's chief justice intimidating emails has been sentenced to probation.
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A person was in custody after a man was stabbed in a fight in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood Monday.
Chicago police early Tuesday were searching for the attacker who stabbed two people on a CTA Red Line station platform on the city's South Side.
