This is funny:A Chicago man robbed a Radio Shack of $17,000 in merchandise, but police tracked him down quickly thanks to the global positioning equipment he stole, prosecutors said.Raymond Jefferson, 20, is charged with tying up people who were at the... »
...but guess what's up? Besides shootings. And homicides:The robbery Friday of a Northwest Side Albany Park bank branch was at least the 50th this year in the Chicago metropolitan area. In all of 2011 there were 115 bank robberies in the Chicago area, ... »
Early Monday morning Albany Park became the unfortunate host of Chicago’s first murder of the year, as a 19-year old Harold Washington College student was gunned down in an alley of the block of 3200... (Like this story? Click the headline to vote it u... »
The first murder of 2012 happened early this morning in Albany Park, where a 19-year-old was shot in the back seat of an SUV. [ more › ] »
And the weather just keeps getting nicer. We might have ourselves a bloodbath:Two men and a woman were wounded in a Monday afternoon shooting on the South Side. The shooting happened about 3:55 p.m. in the 1900 block of East 73rd Street, said police Ne... »
All over the city:Four people were injured in a single shooting near Ashland Avenue and Division Street this morning, one of several overnight shootings on the North Side, authorities said. An off-duty police officer witnessed a car pull up and saw som... »
An Iowa man is back in custody, after being captured in Chicago following a nationwide manhunt on charges that he tried to sexually assault at least one of his own children. »
