View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. Source: Emily Florez / NBC Chicago A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot late Sunday by a police officer, marking the third police-involved shooting since Friday. Chicago Police said in a statement that officers were responding to shots in the Englewood neighborhood just before 11 p.m. when they spotted an individual running down the street. [...]
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. Source: NBC Chicago A woman was killed and at least 11 others were injured in shootings across Chicago. April McDaniel, 18, was shot in the throat, authorities said, when gunfire erupted just before 5 p.m. Monday on the 5700 block of South Sangamon Avenue. Police said four others were wounded [...]
Source: Alexandria Fisher / NBC Chicago An 18-year-old man was shot and killed in weekend violence that wounded at least 12 others across Chicago. The teen was fatally shot outside of a reported family party at 10:43 p.m. in the 8400 block of South Constance Avenue in the Stony Island Park neighborhood Friday, according to [...]
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. Source: Kim Vatis / NBC Chicago Chicago Public Schools officials removed from duty an employee who was captured on video throwing a female student down the stairs at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, and punching her in the face. A cell phone video of the incident shows a man who serves [...]
Source: Lauren Petty and Lisa Balde / NBC Chicago Friends and family gathered Tuesday to remember a 6-month-old Chicago girl who was fatally shot last week while sitting on her father’s lap. A wake for Jonylah Watkins began at 10 a.m. followed by her funeral at 11 a.m. at New Beginnings Church, 6620 S. King [...]
Source: Lisa Balde / NBC Chicago Rev. Jesse Jackson, notoriously tight-lipped about family matters since his son went on medical leave last summer, wants to say thanks. “During this difficult and painful ordeal, our family has felt the impact of your prayers and calls,” Rev. Jackson said Monday in a statement. “So many ministers have reached [...]
Source: Alexandria Fisher and Summer Nettles / NBC Chicago Police are questioning two men in the murder of an 18-year-old Chicago woman who was killed Friday in a north suburb, officials said Sunday. Janay McFarlane was shot and killed while leaving a store in North Chicago, hours after her younger sister attended President Barack Obama’s [...]
Source: NBC Chicago A Cook County Circuit Court judge on Monday declined a request to hold a same-day hearing for an injunction to immediately end Chicago’s teacher strike. During a short meeting, Judge Peter Flynn postponed the requested hearing until Wednesday, city law department spokesman Roderick Drew said. That comes after the Chicago Teachers Union’s [...]
Source: NBC Chicago Jesse Jackson Jr.’s medical condition “is more serious than we thought and initially believed,” according to a statement released Thursday. The congressman’s office announced last month he was taking a leave of absence and was being treated for exhaustion. Now it seems Jackson Jr. will need to take more time away, a [...]
Source: NBC Chicago / MSNBC Scottie Pippen took legal issue this week with several media outlets who he says falsely reported he filed for bankruptcy. The former Bulls star filed a $9 million federal lawsuit Tuesday in Chicago claiming the reports earlier this year were wrong and damaging, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Pippen ‘‘never [...]
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