Heart of Chicago

At least 13 people were shot -- one fatally -- on the South and West sides since Friday afternoon, according to authorities. One of the men shot, a 24-year-old, died at 11:34 p.m. Loyola University Medical Center in west suburban Maywood, according to...

Shootings in the Grand Crossing and Heart of Chicago neighborhoods left two men injured Tuesday night and early Wednesday, authorities said. A 45-year-old man was shot about 1:45 a.m. Wednesday in the 7500 block of South Ingleside Avenue, Police News...

Nearly 100 people said goodbye today to Michael Orozco, a 14-year-old Chicago boy who was killed earlier this week by an alleged gang member who prosecutors said was out to avenge his father's earlier slaying. At St. Agnes of Bohemia Church, 2651 S....

A reputed gang member was out to avenge the murder of his father when he opened fire at a group of teenagers walking in rival territory, fatally wounding a 14-year-old boy Sunday afternoon in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, Cook County prosecutors said...

A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A 26-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the Bronzeville neighborhood during an apparent domestic dispute Sunday night, police said. Read more • A gunman shot two 17-year-old boys as...

Three people are being questioned about the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy as he walked out of a store with two teenaged girls in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the West Side, authorities said. Michael Orozco had just left the store at the...

A Southwest Side man was killed this morning and at least nine others were wounded in shootings across Chicago Monday evening through Tuesday morning, police said. Two other people were wounded in shoot-outs with police, authorities say. In the fatal...

Chicago police arrived at a West Side house party about 3:30 a.m. Sunday and found a chaotic scene where two people had been shot, one fatally, minutes earlier. About 100 people people lingered in the 1300 block of North Latrobe Avenue in the North...

Chicago police are warning Brighton Park and Heart of Chicago residents after five robberies in the two South Side neighborhoods. In a pair of robberies in the 4300 and 4400 South blocks of Western Avenue in Brighton Park, four people in a dark SUV...

At 23, Cesar Montoya already bore the scars of gun violence in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the Southwest Side. But the streets were finished with him yet. A masked gunman walked up and opened fire as Montoya talked with friends on the corner...

At least three people were wounded within half an hour Thursday night in separate shootings on the South and West sides, police said. A 19-year-old man in a car with his girlfriend was shot in the 2300 block of South Leavitt Street about 8:40 p.m. in the...

Two young men were killed while at least seven other people including a 15-year-old boy were wounded during shootings Friday and Saturday across the city. Early Saturday in the Rogers Park neighborhood, a 34-year-old man was walking on a sidewalk in...