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CHICAGO (CBS) — Four people were killed in a mass shooting on a CTA Blue Line train in west suburban Forest Park on Monday morning. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it ...
CHICAGO - Nearly a dozen people were robbed at gunpoint in Brighton Park in under half an hour early Monday morning. According to Chicago police, four incidents happened between 1:09 a.m. and 1:37 ...
CHICAGO - A shooting on the city's West Side left three men hospitalized, and Chicago police are still searching for the suspects. The incident occurred just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the 700 ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
As of June 24, Chicago had seen 1,105 shooting incidents so far this year, a 6% reduction from the same time last year and a 12% reduction over the past two years.
Participants in organized crime in Chicago at various times have included members of the Chicago Outfit associated with Al Capone, the Valley Gang, the North Side Gang, Prohibition gangsters, and others.
Sometime before 1:50 PM, Nightengale fatally shot 30-year-old Yiran Fan as he sat in his vehicle in a Hyde Park parking garage. [4] Shortly afterwards, Nightengale entered an apartment building at 4940 S. East End Ave., where he fatally shot doorwoman 46-year-old Aisha Johnson and wounded a 77-year-old-woman in the head as she grabbed her mail.
This most recent Fourth of July weekend was especially bloody in Chicago. More than 100 people were shot and 19 people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy who was shot to death in his home ...