East Garfield Park

A puppy who was thrown off a third floor balcony in East Garfield Park a few weeks ago will be adopted by one of the Chicago police officer who saved her. The puppy, Cowgirl, was taken to PAWS, the city's largest no  kill shelter. Cowgirl is an...

Nine suspected gang members were arrested Saturday as Chicago police moved to shut down an open-air heroin market in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. First Deputy Superintendent Al Wysinger said residents' complaints about violence at Hamlin Avenue...

Nine suspected gang members were arrested Saturday as Chicago police moved to shut down an open-air heroin market in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. First Deputy Superintendent Al Wysinger said residents’ complaints about violence at the...

A woman was shot in the chest during an argument with her ex-boyfriend over babysitting chores in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said this morning. The shooting happened about 11:15 p.m. Monday behind a home in the 700 block...

Brighton Park saw two homicides in two days last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. A 13-year-old boy was shot to death Saturday in the 4600 block of South Spaulding Avenue, police said. One day earlier, a 28-year-old woman was...

Chicago police officials are asking for the public's help to nab a man who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl on the West Side. The attack happened on April 10, at 7:30 a.m. as the girl was walking to school on the 3900 block of West Ohio Street in...

Two people were killed and three others wounded in shootings Friday night on the South and West sides, according to police. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the stomach and a 20-year-old man was shot in the head about 9 p.m. Friday in the 1900 block of West...

At least seven people were shot Friday between noon and about 8 p.m., according to Chicago police. Two died. One man was killed about noon on the 4800 block of South Laflin Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Two others were wounded nearby...

Chicago police have launched a death investigation after a 46-year-old man was found with what appeared to be apparent head trauma in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, officials said. Willie Daniel, 46, of the 1400 block of South Canal Street was...

A man fleeing from Chicago police fired shots at officers this morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. No one was injured and police did not return fire when it happened about 10:55 a.m. in the 700 block of North Christiana...

One firefighter had a health emergency while fighting a blaze that caused a boarded-up building in the East Garfield Park neighborhood to partially collapse, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman said. The firefighter was transported to Rush University...

At least nine people were shot between 11:10 p.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Sunday, according to Chicago police, including four outside a West Side club about 3 a.m. Three men and a woman were shot outside The Supper Club on the 2700 block of West Madison...