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A shootout in a hookah lounge in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood early New Year's Day left one man dead and another wounded, authorities said. The shootout marks the city's first homicide of the 2023 year.
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The 64-year-old's stabbing death marks the final homicide of 2022. Unofficial results from HeyJackass.com are 734 homicides for the year, but that number is subject to change.
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Police were called to the 300 block of W. 87th Street in the West Chatham neighborhood on the city's south side in response to witness calls of a brutal stabbing.
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Additional details that were not reported in our original story, the 63-year-old man who died was dragged beneath the SUV for six city blocks before he was dislodged from underneath.
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A 56-year-old man in a wheelchair and an as-yet-unidentified man who was pushing him were struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run late Thursday. The man pushing the man in the wheelchair was killed.
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Chicago police said a window was pried open late Monday or early Tuesday at Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. The intruder used a crowbar to break through several doors before reaching the parish safe and a donation bin in the church in the city's Lincoln Park neighborhood.
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A 15-year-old girl was walking her family's pet Chihuahua on Monday outside her apartment building on the city's Northwest Side when the woman stopped to talk to her, ran toward the dog, and stabbed the animal “without warning or provocation."
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An 18-year-old male victim got into an argument in the backyard area of some residences in Albany Park and the as-yet-unknown offender allegedly pulled a gun and shot him.
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A man is in custody this Christmas Eve after police say he crashed an off-duty CPD officer's vehicle he had just stolen and there was an exchange of gunfire in the city's medical district on the Near West Side.
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One wonders how successful such a dedicated and motivated team could be in a legitimate business environment if they're willing to commit themselves to their craft in such treacherous conditions but, alas, we're unlikely to ever know.
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Another teenager has died after a shooting over the weekend on the city's Near West Side, authorities said Monday.
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A preliminary investigation shows that the car failed to heed the rail crossing’s warning lights and drove through a gate directly into the path of the westbound train, police said.