Near West Side

Caleb Morales, of Brainerd, was arrested Sunday evening in the Back of the Yards and charged with two counts of felony vehicular hijacking.

A 14-year-old girl is missing from Chicago.

Two males were shot in the legs in the Near West Side on Saturday.

Two people were robbed in West Town on Christmas Eve.

The 22-year-old was on the sidewalk about 11 a.m. in the 1400 block of West Flournoy Street when a man grabbed her and attempted to take her into an alley, Chicago police said.

About 6:15 a.m. Nov. 16, the man attempted to get into a garage by breaking the door handle in the 1200 block of West Madison Street, Chicago police said.

Damarion Mosley, 14, has been missing from Chicago since Nov. 15.

On Tuesday night, Alaina Hampton hosted the first #MeToo support group for victims of workplace harassment.

The woman, who is believed to be 20 to 25 years old, walked into the hospital Nov. 30, Chicago police said. She was wearing black Nike pants, pink gym shoes and had a black backpack. She goes by the name, “Jae Karp.”

State Representative LaShawn Ford secured a $350,000 state grant to help pay for advocacy on the West Side, which includes training residents to use Naloxone. 

Donald D. Thurman, 26, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault in connection with the strangulation death of 19-year-old Ruth George, according to University of Illinois at Chicago officials.

Student Ruth George, 19, who had been reported missing by her family, was found dead at a University of Illinois Chicago parking garage on Saturday morning.

No one was injured Thursday after a fire broke out at a recycling center in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor on the Near West Side.

A pair of vehicle thefts were reported in October on the Near West Side.

Chicago Police arrested several protesters Tuesday afternoon at a Chicago Teachers Union sit-in outside the headquarters of developer Sterling Bay on the Near West Side.

Investigators Tuesday gave an update exactly one year after a gunman shot and killed two men in Rogers Park, apparently, at random. 

A woman was hospitalized Thursday for sexual assault at what she thought was the building once occupied by R. Kelly on the Near West Side.

Officer Ben Perez paid the ultimate sacrifice, dying in the line of duty as a Chicago police officer back in 2002.