Mental health clinicians will start answering some 911 calls in Chicago, instead of cops

For the first time in Chicago, some 911 calls for mental health emergencies won’t be answered by police officers but by mental health professionals paired with paramedics.

Chicago girl, 14, missing from Roseland

HAVE YOU SEEN HER? Chicago police are looking for a 14-year-old girl reported missing from Roseland on the Far South Side.

13 killed, 33 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

The same neighborhoods continue to bear the brunt of gun violence in Chicago, with most of those shot over the weekend attacked in areas that have been much more violent this year than last.

13 children shot during city's most violent weekend of 2021

For several years, Jerry Dale Sr. and his neighbors have shut down their block near the border of Roseland and West Pullman for a Fourth of July cookout where everyone sets up lawn chairs outside and mingles while children play and ride bicycles until they’re tuckered out.

Woman dies in Roseland shooting that wounds 8-year-old girl, another woman

A woman was killed and an 8-year-old girl and another woman were wounded early Thursday in Roseland on the Far South Side — one of 14 neighborhoods in Chicago that have seen an increase in murders this year.

Shooter still at large after 5-year-old Chicago boy shot in the head

Five-year-old Clareon Williams was shot by a stray bullet while playing on his iPad in his South Side home. The shooter was never caught. A $10,000 reward is being offered in the case.

Two men shot in Roseland Sunday

Almost a thousand people have been shot in Chicago so far this year.

Police search for driver wanted in Roseland fatal hit-and-run

Chicago police is searching for the driver of a van that fatally struck a man last week in Roseland on the Far South Side.

Man charged with stabbing 61-year-old woman to death in Roseland

A man allegedly stabbed a 61-year-old woman to death in Roseland last week because he was angry that she did not join him when he was kicked out of a coachhouse they had been staying in.

Missing 19-year-old man last seen in Roseland located

Karagan Hickman, a 19-year-old man who was last seen in Roseland has been located, according to Chicago police.

Suburban man run over and killed in Chicago

Nicholas Bailey, 30, was hit by a vehicle on Chicago's Far South Side. He died the next day.

16-year-old girl charged with carjacking of ride-share driver in Roseland

A 16-year-old girl faces felony charges after she and two others allegedly carjacked a ride-share driver in March in Roseland and led police on a chase into Indiana.

Man get 1 year in prison for firing gun, leading 2 CPD officers to be struck and killed by train

A man who fired a gun he found on a Far South Side railroad line, leading two responding Chicago police officers to be struck and killed by a commuter train, was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday.