A recently paroled armed robber is being held without bond in the stabbing death of a man aboard a Chicago Transit Authority train.
Tony Polk is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 54-year-old...
Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
/ July 18, 2019
A recent DePaul graduate was slashed in the face and neck early Thursday morning near the music buildings on the Lincoln Park campus, according to DePaul Public Safety and Chicago police.
The attack...
Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
/ June 10, 2019
A DePaul student was among those who were killed in shootings in Chicago this past weekend.
Marcel Hannah, 30, was shot about 3 a.m. Sunday in the 6600 block of South Evans Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood...
Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
/ June 6, 2019
A man is suspected of sexually assaulting at least three women in the Lincoln Park neighborhood over the past three weeks, according to Chicago police.
The man usually approaches women walking alone...
The bodies turned up in some of Chicago's most derelict places: alleys, abandoned buildings, weed-choked lots and garbage containers. The victims were mostly black women who had been strangled or suffocated.
Authorities...
A 76-year-old man has been convicted in the 1992 strangulation death of an Illinois teenager.
Robert Serritella, of Park Ridge, was found guilty Thursday on two counts of first degree murder in the...
A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from her womb, police and family members said.
The newborn was in...
A poorly managed police database of 130,000 purported street-gang members in Chicago is rife with errors and offers no practical way for those wrongly entered into it to purge their names, the city's inspector...
