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After hundreds of teenagers and young adults descended on the Loop in downtown Chicago over the weekend, destroying cars and brawling in the streets, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson cautioned against ...
(The Center Square) – Republican state Sen. Steve McClure says Chicago’s rising violent crime numbers and data showing arrests have now dipped to just one in every seven such cases proves that ...
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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.
Sometime before 1:50 PM, Nightengale fatally shot 30-year-old Yiran Fan, a PHD student from China, in the head as he sat in his vehicle in a Hyde Park parking garage. [4] [5] 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.
Chicago, Illinois United States: 1 1 A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was shot to death in a parking lot of Chicago State University after high school basketball games were being held on the university campus. Police arrested two people after the shooting and recovered a weapon.
Newly released video captures the moment a group of thieves, believed to be teenagers, broke into a luxury car dealership in Wisconsin and stole nine cars off the lot. Video captures thieves ...
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.