Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Search results for keyword: crime found in 909 News.

obituaries
  • by david hall
Harriette Gillem Robinet, scientist, civil rights activist and lauded children's author, dies at 92

Writer believed that without knowing history, people can have no perspective on on life today.

crime
  • by david hall
Teen charged in fatal shooting of 7-year-old boy on Near West Side: 'There is no excuse for this violence'

A 16-year-old boy shot Jai’mani Amir Rivera Tuesday afternoon near the child's apartment complex in the 2300 block of West Jackson Boulevard, police say.

the-watchdogs
  • by david hall
Wrongful convictions unit failed to look into possible police misconduct in murder case, confidential report concludes

Nancy Adduci, former director of the Cook County state's attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit, had said she found nothing wrong with the prosecution of Kevin Jackson for the murder of another man at a West Side gas station in 2001.

crime
  • by david hall
31st Street Beach should close at 9 p.m. due to violence, Ald. Lamont Robinson says

Three people have been killed in separate shootings this week near the beach.