West Garfield Park

A suspect was being questioned in connection with the shooting of two 17-year-old girls in the West Garfield Park neighborhood this morning, police said. One of the girls was shot in the chest and suffered a graze wound to the head in the attack in...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested with a gun at a West Garfield Park funeral this morning as part of the Chicago Police Department’s crackdown on possible conflicts at gang funerals, police said. Roosevelt J. Yarber, of the 4100 block of West Van...

Arrested on Chicago's West Side with a loaded automatic handgun, one Elgin teenager told officers he was seeking revenge for a friend's shooting, police said. Jeremy Jones and Dawan J. Nelson, both 19, were arrested shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday night...

A man died following a fire late this morning on the West Side, officials said. The fire erupted at 10:50 a.m. in the 4000 block of West Van Buren Street, according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Robert Perez. The man, 75,...

Seven people were injured in a traffic crash early this morning on the West Side in the city's West Garfield Park neighborhood. The crash happened about 4:31 a.m. near the intersection of Cicero Avenue and Ferdinand Street, said Chicago Police...

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 16-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man have died and 10 other people were wounded during shootings from Saturday night into early Sunday afternoon in the city, authorities said. The man was slain late this morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on...

A national fair housing group has added Chicago and two other cities to its complaint charging that Bank of America Corp. takes better care of foreclosed properties in white communities than those in predominantly minority neighborhoods. The inclusion of...

Chicago police arrested a suspected gunman who opened fired on them this morning on the West Side. No officers were hurt in the shooting, which happened in the 100 block of South Cicero Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at 1:50 a.m., police...

Two people were killed and two others, including a 14-year-old boy, were seriously wounded in a shooting Monday night, just blocks from where a man was fatally shot earlier in the day. In addition, a third person was killed in a separate shooting on...

Police are asking for the public's help to find the driver of a car that critically injured a 52-year-old woman in a hit-and-run accident in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Wednesday evening, officials said. The incident happened at about 9 p.m. near...

A Chicago man replaced his car’s windshield and waited two days before turning himself in on hit-and-run charges from a crash that left a woman in a coma, prosecutors said. William Davis, 27, had just turned onto Pulaski Road from Lake Street in...