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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department is launching a new "cold case" video series in hopes of solving those mysteries.The "CPD Cold Case" series highlights cold cases that range from decades ago to just a few years ago. Each episode focuses on a different case with the goal of generating community tips that can...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department released January crime stats on Tuesday.Citywide, 48 people were killed last month. That's a 13% decline compared to January 2021, police said.There were 219 people shot compared to 241 last year, data showed.RELATED: Area residents gather to protest Chicago violence against kids, women in 2022 so farEMBED More...
A police dispatcher has labelled Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot 'a disgrace' for allowing the city to become a 'death zone' after murders hit a 25-year high. Keith Thornton Jr. posted a video to Facebook on Christmas Eve slamming Lightfoot as well as the Superintendent of Police David Brown for failing to support the force. He...
Chicago's grim crime-ridden year continued its familiar path over the Christmas weekend and into Monday, with three people fatally shot and 22 injured in a city run by woke Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Murders are at a 25-year high, with 793 recorded so far in a city with 2.7 million people. By comparison, New York City,...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot pleaded with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to send Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents to the city for six months after the city reaches a 25-year high in the number of murders. The woke mayor announced at a news conference in Garfield Park on Monday that she made a...
Chicago police recorded another 25 shootings, including four murders, over the past weekend alone, as the city’s police superintendent and others testified Monday before a Senate committee on gun violence. From Friday at 6 p.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m., there were 25 shooting incidents involving 27 shooting victims. There were four murders reported to police...
Nearly 50 people were shot, nine of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. Breitbart News observed yesterday at least 36 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning alone in Chicago, and seven of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds. By Monday morning ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times noted the...
(CNN)The Department of Justice has charged 13 members of a Chicago street gang faction with racketeering conspiracy as part of a federal indictment related to dozens of murders, attempted murders and acts of violence spanning more than 20 years. A 21-count indictment alleges that the Wicked Town faction of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang...
There have been 678 murders in Chicago so far this year and there are two months left to go for the number of killings to rise even higher. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the figure of 678 is already higher than the total number of murders witnessed “in eight of the last ten years.” The 12-month murder...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Thirteen people involved with a violent West Side street gang were charged Monday in a federal racketeering indictment, in which they are accused of numerous murders and attacks. The U.S. Attorney’s office announced the grand jury indictment against the leaders, members, and associates of the Wicked Town faction of the Traveling Vice...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department released its October crime report Monday morning.Last month, 356 people were shot across the city. That's up from 344 in October of 2020.Fifty nine people were murdered last month, down from 69 last October.Year-to-date, 3,766 people have been shot in Chicago. That's 323 more shooting victims than last...
CHICAGO -- A man freed from prison last year after serving nearly 60 years in the slaying of one of three suburban Chicago women found bludgeoned to death in a state park has won court approval for DNA testing of evidence found at the crime scene.Chester Weger, 82, has maintained that he didn't kill anyone...
There were 21 shootings, including one involving an 11-year-old boy, and four murders reported over the weekend in Chicago, police said Monday. Twenty-two people were shot and four were fatally wounded from 6 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) said. Victims ranged in age from 11 to 51. SLAIN CHICAGO...
Florida Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) held a campaign event hosted by far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday, Fox News reported. “Lightfoot, who succeeded in making Chicago one of the largest sanctuary cities in the country, has repeatedly sparked the ire of local law enforcement during her more than two years as mayor,” according to...
Chicago’s weekend bloodshed included nine murders and 56 shooting victims – but the violence didn’t stop there, as an alderman visiting a known "problem corner" was assaulted by a group of men who appeared intoxicated and high on illicit drugs. From 6 p.m. Friday to just before midnight Sunday night, Chicago police recorded 46 shooting...
On the heels of a summer of fearing that shootings and violence in major cities nationwide would continue their upward trends from earlier in the year, crime statistics in some places remained largely the same, if not decreased, while police officials in others – such as Chicago – continued their pleas for peace amid increasing...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city just released its crime statistics for the month of August.There were 493 people shot across Chicago.That's up by three compared to last year.There were 78 murders, compared to 64 in August of 2020. That's up 22% from the same time last year.Year to date, murders have increased 3% compared to...
By Mary Chappell CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun used in the attempted murders of three people in Humboldt Park, officials said Thursday. Chicago Police officers responded June 5, 2020 to the 800 block of North Homan Avenue after hearing...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police Sunday released their crime data for the month of July, and while murders in the city are about equal to 2020, the number of shootings has increased nearly 15% since last year. According to the Chicago Police Department, in July 2020 the city saw 107 homicides, and in 2021 homicides were...
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The number of murders, shootings and wounded victims reported in Chicago in the month of June was down compared to the same time in 2020, police department statistics show. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) said Thursday there were 78 murders last month compared to the 98 killings reported in June 2020, or a 20% decrease....
CHICAGO (CBS) — A violent start to a new month just before the holiday weekend. Three people, including an eight-year-old girl have been shot in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood. READ MORE: Chicago Weather: Sunny Skies Return With Mild Temperatures It comes as Chicago police release June’s numbers on crime in the city. CBS 2’s Mugo Odigwe has...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said she was seeing a decline in crime in her city — despite murders increasing by nearly 30 percent over the last two years. “The reality is, June over June, we’re seeing a downward trend in both homicides and shootings,” Lightfoot said at a Monday press conference. “We are seeing...
The beauty of being a Democrat in a country where the national media is more interested in owning the Trumptards than holding incompetent liars like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot accountable is that she can get away with saying shit like this… “The reality is June over June, we’re seeing a downward trend in both homicides...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department's anti-looting task force ended Monday night and the department have released new numbers pointing to fewer murders and shootings last month compared to the previous year.The traditional summer kickoff has historically been a problematic one in Chicago and this one was no exception. At least 33 people were...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department's anti-looting task force ended Monday night and the department have released new numbers pointing to fewer murders and shootings last month compared to the previous year.The traditional summer kickoff has historically been a problematic one in Chicago and this one was no exception. At least 32 people were...
Chicago police say shootings, murders down last month compared to 2020; anti-looting task force ends
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department's anti-looting task force ended Monday night and the department have released new numbers pointing to fewer murders and shootings last month compared to the previous year.The traditional summer kickoff has historically been a problematic one in Chicago and this one was no exception. At least 32 people were...
Nearly a thousand people have been struck by bullets so far this year in Chicago, with murders and shootings so far outpacing 2020, while police also report a considerable drop in carjackings reported in the Windy City, officials recently announced. There were 832 shootings in Chicago as of April 30, from which 997 people were wounded, Chicago Police said in announcing the monthly crime...
Nearly a thousand people have been struck by bullets so far this year in Chicago, with murders and shootings so far outpacing 2020, while police also report a considerable drop in carjackings reported in the Windy City, officials recently announced. There were 832 shootings in Chicago as of April 30, from which 997 people were wounded, Chicago Police said...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Shootings are up for the month of April along with more victims, according to crime statistics the Chicago Police Department released. Since 2018 the month of April has only grown more violent. April murders are trending down, but the total number of them Chicago has seen already in 2021 continues a violent trend...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police released their April crime numbers early Saturday morning, and some crimes, like carjackings, are down significantly.But others are up.Last month's crime numbers are a mixed bag because while Chicago police said carjackings and some of the other most serious crimes are down from the start of the year, murders and...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police released updated crime statistics early Thursday morning for the month of March.They tell a violent story.Just last month there were 42 murders in the city. In March of 2020, there were 28.So far this year, there have been a total of 131 people killed in violent crimes. At this point...
CHICAGO (CBS) — With Chicago caught in a carjacking epidemic, frightened rideshare drivers across the city are always in fear that their next pickup could be their last. The rideshare drivers are demanding more protection after another driver was murdered this week. As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported, the drivers said the first step is...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Tuesday afternoon the violence interrupters of Acclivus converged on Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood."This is a part of our effort to be that holistic partner to get out in front of the violence," said Bamani Obadele, Acclivus Community Engagement Director.The area has seen an uptick in violent crime so they put boots on...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Earlier this year, the Morning Insiders sat down with a group of grieving parents; all four are mourning the loss of someone to Cicero violence, with no arrests in any of these cases. The story circulated on social media and more families reached out to us about the lack of closure in...
Loading the player... A group of journalism students in Chicago has shed light on the cold cases of more than 50 women who were brutally murdered in the city over the past 20 years. The effort was spearheaded by Roosevelt University Journalism professor John Fountain who, last January, tasked his students with giving a...
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) — A new year, a new push by parents in Cicero. They want to know why years – in some cases more than a decade – have gone by without any movement in their sons’ homicide cases. CBS 2 Morning Insider Lauren Victory takes us inside their fight for justice. It might...
New Year’s weekend saw violence in Chicago that left at least five people shot dead and 25 others injured from shootings. The shootings include a man in his 20s who was killed on Saturday in the West Side while driving. Police said someone in another car fired a gun and shot the man in...
Shootings and murders skyrocketed in Chicago last year, after three years of declining violence in the city. In 2020, the city saw 774 murders, an increase of more than 50% compared to the 506 murders in 2019, according to data compiled by the Chicago Sun-Times. Ninety percent of Chicago Police Department districts reported more...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two people were hit by stray gunfire just after they rang in the New Year as Chicago police announce shootings and murders jumped by more than 50 percent in 2020.At around 12 minutes past midnight, Chicago police said a man and a woman were sitting in the living room of a home...
Murder surged in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans, and numerous other Democrat-controlled cities during 2020. The murder surge was great enough that columnist Byron York observed 2020 was possibly “the worst one year increase in murder ever recorded.” For example, as of December 20, 2020, the Atlanta Police Department indicated there had been 154...
Police are struggling to solve murders as homicides rise and the Covid-19 pandemic creates new challenges to cracking cases. Homicides were up nearly 40% for the country’s 10 largest police departments in the first 11 months of 2020 compared to the same period last year. The clearance rate at nine departments that provided data was...
Murders in Chicago have surged by more than 50% year-over-year with 739 homicides reported through Sunday, as one police official opined on what he called an “extremely challenging year” for detectives in the Windy City. “For the typical homicide detective, it’s been an extremely busy year,” said Chicago Police Department (CPD) Chief of Detectives Brendan...
Chicago authorities reported a violent weekend that saw at least four people killed and 32 others wounded in shootings across the city. In the latest attack, a man was fatally shot on the city's Northwest Side on Sunday. Officers responded around 5:10 p.m. where they found a male unresponsive in a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds, the Chicago...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- New crime data released showed that Cook County is on track to break another homicide record.More than 900 homicides were reported in 2020, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. The office has handled double the number of cases they had in 2019.The Chicago Police Department said some crimes have decreased...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- New crime data released showed that Cook County is on track to break another homicide record.More than 900 homicides were reported in 2020, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. The office has handled double the number of cases they had in 2019.The Chicago Police Department said some crimes have decreased...
Gun violence continues to plague Chicago streets with the city seeing a significant uptick in shootings and murders compared to last year. On Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department reported 3,790 people were shot through Nov. 30, compared to 2,403 in the same time period last year. Murders increased by more than half – 716 homicides through...
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