West Garfield Park

The gang crisis: Emanuel owns it now

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel a few years ago. "And what I mean by that," he said, "it's an opportunity to do things you could not do before." Things you could not do before? Or things you would not do...

Tags: Chicago Mayor, Garfield Park, Interior Policy, Garry McCarthy, Hadiya Pendleton

Chicago police return stolen car, wedding dress in time for Saturday ceremony

Wheaton man found dead in West Side gangway

Bolingbrook fugitive arrested on child porn charges

Executive profile: Maria Green

Maria Green let silence fall over a weekly meeting before weighing in on the question of how Illinois Tool Works should supply information to board members inquiring about vote tallies at annual meetings. The pause prompted staff members to share...

Tags: Illinois Tool Works Incorporated, Washington, DC, Lawyers, Economy, Business and Finance, Parties and Movements

Man, teen killed, 6 others wounded overnight

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A Gary, Ind. man and a Southwest Side teen were killed and at least six other people wounded in attacks across the city Friday night into Saturday morning, according to police. The latest homicide happened about 5:40 a.m. Saturday in the 11600 block of...

Tags: Garfield Park, Injuries and Wounds, Shootings, Chicago Police Department, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore

West Side cops catch sex assault suspect

A suspect in the sexual assault of a woman in the back yard of a home in the West Garfield Park neighborhood was caught by West Side police officers after a brief foot chase this morning, police said. A caller to 911 alerted police to someone screaming...

Tags: Garfield Park, Sex Crimes, Abusive Behavior

Cops witness shooting, chase down gunman on West Side

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Chicago police chased down and arrested a gunman who shot and critically wounded another man on the city's West Side, authorities said. The shooting was one of at least four late night shootings occurring across the city. Officers saw the unidentified...

Tags: Garfield Park, Evanston, Shootings, University of Chicago, Murder

The story of Chicago's Nazi spy

A spy story worthy of John le Carre began and ended 70 years ago this summer in Chicago. It had classic elements of an espionage tale — enemy agents landed from submarines, explosives hidden in the sand of an East Coast beach, orders written in...

Tags: Defendants, Garfield Park, Long Island, Germany, Espionage and Intelligence

No bail for Urbana man charged in July 2012 West Side killing

A judge denied bail today for an Urbana man charged with murder in connection with the slaying of a West Side Chicago resident in July 2012. Quinn Holmes, 40, of the 300 block of West Park Street, was arrested Thursday by Chicago police with the U.S....

Tags: Garfield Park, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Prosecution

Man found shot to death in West Side apartment building

A West Humboldt Park man was found fatally shot in the hallway of a West Garfield Park apartment building Tuesday, authorities said. Darvelle Brown, 24, of the 4300 block of West Crystal Street, was pronounced dead at 6:32 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital,...

Tags: Garfield Park, Prisons, Punishment, Humboldt Park

Extra-alarm fire guts West Side apartment building

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An extra-alarm fire gutted most of a six-flat apartment building in the West Garfield Park neighborhood late Friday and early Saturday. The fire, in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Street, broke out before 11 p.m. Responders upgraded the alarm to bring...

Tags: Garfield Park, Chicago Fire Department