Crime and Public Safety

Five people were arrested for allegedly robbing a 62- and 72-year-old man Thursday on a Red Line train on the South Side.

Eleven people were shot, two of them fatally, Wednesday in Chicago.

Five people are in custody after a crowd tried to free a man who was detained while police dispersed a memorial service Wednesday in Lawndale on the West Side.

In Chicago, tensions continue to boil over, even as police arrested a suspect in a shooting that grazed a 5-year-old girl and injured a 15-year-old.

A man has been charged with beating a woman and baby last week at a Target store in southwest suburban Tinley Park.

An Illinois appellate court has upheld a 100-year sentence imposed on a Texas man for sexually assaulting a woman in her west suburban home in 1999.

A west suburban man has pleaded guilty in the 2018 fatal shooting of another man in a recording studio in an unincorporated area near Roselle.

Two people were wounded in separate shootings Wednesday morning on the Northwest Side.

Police are asking for the public’s help locating a 17-year-old girl reported missing from Hermosa on the Northwest Side.

A crowd of people allegedly threw bottles at police officers Tuesday night while the officers were arresting someone with a gun following a Wentworth Gardens shooting that wounded a 5-year-old girl and two other teens.

A 24-year-old woman who was reported missing from the South Loop has been located.

A man was shot to death Wednesday in West Woodlawn on the South Side, according to police.

The day’s latest fatal attack left a man dead and a woman wounded in Humboldt Park on the West Side.