South Lawndale

A man was shot and critically wounded inside a building in the Beverly neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, among seven people shot across Chicago into the evening, police said. The man, 34, was shot in the 9900 block of South Walden Parkway about 12:30 p....

The owner of a Chicago auto yard has been indicted on dozens of felony charges for an allegedly brazen scheme to steal eight school buses from a Far South Side bus company and shred them for scrap. Sergio Quintero, 44, pleaded not guilty Friday to a 58-...

New City has recorded four homicides in the last 10 days, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Nov. 22, a 19-year-old man was shot to death in the 4900 block of South Seeley Avenue, police said. One day earlier, a 19-year-old man was...

A young boy who a family member said had autism was killed late Sunday night in a house fire in the Little Village neighborhood, authorities said. Firefighters discovered the boy, 11, near the entrance of a kitchen on the first floor of the home in the...

New City and Woodlawn each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Saturday in Woodlawn, a man was shot to death in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue and a 28-year-old woman was fatally shot in the...

North Lawndale saw three homicides in two days this last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Monday, a woman was found shot to death in the 1500 block of South Sawyer Avenue, police said. The same day, a 19-year-old man was...

Chicago on Wednesday reached 100 homicides for the year--the fastest the city has hit this mark in at least seven years, RedEye and police data show. Seventeen homicides have been recorded in the last week--including four each on Saturday and Sunday, a...

Austin saw two homicides in two days this week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Monday, a 54-year-old man was shot to death in the 500 block of North Leamington Avenue, police said. A day earlier, a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot...

A fire broke out this morning at a Commonwealth Edison electrical transformer in the South Lawndale neighborhood, authorities said. The transformer is near a one-story building in an industrial area in the 4100 block of West 36th Street, Chicago Fire...

Eight men in their 20s or younger were shot to death in eight Chicago community areas in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. The victims were: a 17-year-old Monday in Roseland; a 19-year-old Sunday in West Englewood; a 23-...

Six homicides were logged in Chicago on Friday, making it the deadliest day of the year, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. Three of the homicides that day occurred in the Chatham community area, according to officials. At about 3:30 a....

A judge denied bail today for three men charged with shooting a woman during a home invasion in Oak Lawn. Timmie Walton, 27, of the 3300 block of West 147th Street in Midlothian and two Chicago men -- Keon Thigpen, 22, of the 300 block of South Albany...