Calumet Heights

A 19-year-old man was gunned down and two other men were hurt in separate shootings late Tuesday, authorities said. About 11:05 p.m., someone fired shots from a light-colored sedan, striking the 19-year-old as he walked down the sidewalk in the 4700...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push to shut 53 city elementary schools ran into an unexpected buzz saw of criticism Tuesday from hearing officers hired to vet the process, with several raising doubts about the wisdom of the proposals and recommending...

A male believed to be about 19 years old was shot in the neck this evening in the South Side's Calumet Heights neighborhood, police said. The shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Essex Avenue, Chicago Police Department News...

One night after an off-duty Chicago police officer was shot twice during an armed robbery, a separate off-duty officer was robbed of her SUV and several pieces of service equipment Monday night, police said. The carjacking happened shortly after 9 p.m....

The decomposed body of a female was found by a utility worker this morning behind a building in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, police said. Later in the day, people fishing in the Cal Sag Channel found what may be a human skull, officials said. The...

Chicago on Friday surpassed 400 homicides for the year--the fastest the city has done so in nearly 10 years. On Friday morning, two men were found beaten to death in the trunk of a vehicle in the 2400 block of West 45th Street in Brighton Park, officials...

West Pullman has recorded three homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data showed. On Tuesday, a 25-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man were shot to death in the 12000 block of South Eggleston Avenue, police said. Three...

Greater Grand Crossing on Tuesday logged its fifth homicide in about a month, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. An 18-year-old man was shot to death in the 6900 block of South Princeton Avenue, police said. Greater Grand Crossing has...

Chicago this week reached 250 homicides for 2012--the worst start to a year in nine years, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. The city has not reached the 250-homicide mark for the first half of the year since 2003, which saw 286...

Chicago police were talking to a person of interest today in connection with last week’s fatal stabbing of a 75-year-old man in his South Side home, authorities said. The individual was being questioned in the slaying of Donald Ellens, whose body...

A 24-year-old Chicago man fatally stabbed a man more than three times his age following a four-month relationship between the two, prosecutors said. Terrance Olden slashed and stabbed Donald Ellens, 75, on June 25 before robbing him of money and...

Chicago police said that a masked gunman held up a South Side pizza restaurant Saturday night nearly two hours before its scheduled closing hours. No injuries were reported for the holdup at the Pizza Hut restaurant near the intersection of 89th Street...