Crime and Public Safety

Two teenagers were wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in West Englewood on the South Side.

A person was wounded in a shootout with a University of Chicago police officer Tuesday morning in the Hyde Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Alsip police are investigating a shooting that occurred on a basketball court inside an LA Fitness in the south suburb.

Police are asking for the public's help in locating a man who was reported missing from the Roseland neighborhood.

Brandon Borries' mother has been missing since she was involved in a Jan. 3 plane crash off the coast of Panama.

A pair of teens were charged Monday in connection with a violent carjacking in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Police are warning residents about a string of recent armed robberies in the Brainerd and Gresham neighborhoods on the South Side.

Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 74-year-old man who was reported missing after leaving a west suburban hospital.

A man was shot and robbed by a group of people Monday night in the South Shore neighborhood.

Five people were killed, and 33 others wounded, in shootings in Chicago over the weekend through Tuesday morning.

Chicago rapper Vic Mensa was arrested over the weekend in Virginia after arriving on a flight from Ghana.

Vrdolyak is serving 18 months in prison for tax evasion. He and an associate reaped millions of dollars from Illinois’ massive settlement with tobacco companies in the 1990s.

There are surveillance cameras in the area. The Chicago Police Department is investigating to see who left the newborn boy outside the fire station, never handing him to someone.

For the first time, we are hearing 911 calls from the week of Christmas when gunshots rang out at the Oakbrook mall.

CHICAGO CHAOS: A Chicago woman says she was carjacked twice in three days.