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Man Shot, Wounded In Roseland
CHICAGO (CBS) - Police are searching for a gunman who opened fire in the Far South Side’s Roseland neighborhood Tuesday night, leaving one man in the hospital. Police said the victim was sitting in his...
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Fire Breaks Out In Far South Side Factory
CHICAGO (CBS) – A fire broke out early Monday in a factory on the city’s Far South Side, just west of the Bishop Ford Freeway. No one was injured. Police and fire crews responded to the blaze at 1001...
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Police Use Taser On Suspect Who Tries To Escape
CHICAGO (CBS) – Police used a Taser on a suspect in a carjacking as he tried to escape from the South Chicago District patrol station. The suspect was being treated by paramedics as of 1:45 a.m. after...
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Police Kill Dog, Wound Suspect In Drug Raid
CHICAGO (CBS) – Police shot and killed a dog, and wounded a suspect, during a drug raid in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood. The Sun-Times Media Wire reported the narcotics officers were executing a...
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Police Chase Car Thief For Miles Until Tire Falls Off
CHICAGO (CBS) — Three people are in police custody after a police chase through several South Side neighborhoods. Police say the suspects stole a Buick at 69th and Ada streets around 12:48 a.m....
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Boy Shot In Roseland Alley In Final Hours Before Snowstorm
CHICAGO (CBS) — Shootings and other violence seemed to die down as Chicago got hammered with snow Thursday, but not so in the hours leading up to the storm. At 8:07 a.m., less than two hours before the...
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Man Found Dead In Suspected Suicide Near Beverly Fire
UPDATED 01/31/12 9:57 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — A man was found shot to death in a suspected suicide early Tuesday, near the scene of a fire that broke out in a house in the Beverly neighborhood....
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Police Use Stun Gun On Pregnant Woman In Dispute Over Ticket
UPDATED 06/06/12 – 4:11 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police and the Independent Police Review Authority are investigating, after an officer used a stun gun on a pregnant woman, after she tore up a...
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Pregnant Woman Sues After Police Used Stun Gun On Her
Updated 6/14/2012 at 8:30 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — A 30-year-old pregnant woman filed suit Thursday after officers used a stun gun on her during an argument with police earlier this month. As WBBM...
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Boy, 11, In Coma After Being Hit By Car On I-57
CHICAGO (STMW) – An 11-year-old boy suffered major head injuries and was in a coma after being hit by a car Sunday afternoon on I-57 in the Far South Side Washington Heights neighborhood, according to...
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No Charges For Driver Who Hit Boy On I-57
CHICAGO (CBS) — A driver who hit a boy on Interstate 57 Sunday afternoon is not facing any charges. As WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty reports, Illinois State Police say the boy hopped a fence, walked...
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Auto Pound Fire Prompts HazMat Response
CHICAGO (STMW) – A fire at a city auto pound prompted a HazMat response in the South Deering neighborhood on the South Side on Tuesday morning. A Level 1 HazMat response was called for a working fire...
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CTA Bus Driver Critically Hurt In Crash With Dump Truck
CHICAGO (STMW) – A CTA bus driver was critically hurt and had to be cut out of a wreck when a bus collided with a dump truck and two other vehicles on the Far South Side Wednesday night. The...
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Despondent Firefighter May Have Been Seeking ‘Suicide By Cop’ Death
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police on Thursday shot and critically wounded a Chicago firefighter who was described as suicidal and despondent. The shooting happened at the CVS Pharmacy at 103rd and Pulaski in the...
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Man Attacks Neighbor With Chainsaw In Washington Heights
Blood stains the SUV and driveway where a man attacked a longtime friend and neighbor with a chainsaw. (Credit: CBS) Updated 08/21/13 – 10:45 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – A man attacked a neighbor with a...
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Man Arrested After Allegedly Attacking Friend With Chainsaw
CHICAGO (CBS) – A 50-year-old man accused of attacking his longtime friend and neighbor with a chainsaw was taken into custody overnight. WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports charges were pending...
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Chainsaw Attack Victim Forgives Friend, But Won’t Forget
Preston Smith suffered a gash on his left hand when his longtime friend Anthony Metcalf attacked him with a chainsaw. (Credit: CBS) Updated 08/23/13 – 1:12 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – The 55-year-old man who...
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Search Resumes For Suspect In Washington Heights Attacks
CHICAGO (CBS) – Police have resumed searching for a man suspected of raping two women and a teenage girl in Washington Heights early Wednesday, and hiding in another girl’s closet, after determining a...
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Off-Duty Sheriff’s Officer Kills Armed Robber
CHICAGO (CBS) – An off-duty Cook County Sheriff’s officer shot and killed one of three men who robbed him at gunpoint at a gas station in the Pullman neighborhood Monday night. Shortly before 10 p.m.,...
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Teen Arrested, Charged With Murder In Robbery Of Off-Duty Cop
CHICAGO (STMW) – A 17-year-old has been charged as an adult with murder, in connection with the robbery of an off-duty Cook County Sheriff’s sergeant Monday night that left another suspect dead....
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Driver Charged In Roseland Crash That Injured 5
CHICAGO (CBS) – A 48-year-old man has been charged in a crash that injured five people at a Roseland bus stop, following a police chase Tuesday night. James Pugh, of the 1400 block of West 115th...
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Man Charged With Stealing His Car From Police Impound
CHICAGO (CBS) – A South Side man was arrested over the weekend, after breaking into a police impound, and driving off in his car, which had been seized after a previous traffic stop. Two police...
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Man Killed In Pullman Crash
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man was killed in a crash involving a semi early Friday in the Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. A semi and a car crashed at 103rd Street and Woodlawn Avenue...
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Street Named For Blair Holt, Teen Slain Shielding Friend From Gunfire
CHICAGO (CBS) — A street near Percy L. Julian High School has been named in honor of Blair Holt, the 16-year-old boy who was killed 10 years ago Wednesday when he shielded a friend from gunfire on...
View ArticlePolice: Driver Dead, 2 Other Teens Hospitalized When SUV Flees Police, Plows...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A teenage driver is dead, and two other teens were injured, after a sport-utility vehicle fleeing police crashed plowed into a house in the Far South Side’s Fernwood neighborhood...
View ArticlePerson Shot Multiple Times While Driving On Bishop Ford Freeway
CHICAGO (CBS) — A person was shot while driving on the Bishop Ford Freeway Sunday evening, Illinois State Police said. At 8:23 p.m., state police were called to the northbound Bishop Ford at 103rd...
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Search On For 2 Suspects Who Police Say Killed 74-Year-Old Man, Burned His...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police on Monday were hoping surveillance video would help catch a pair behind a September murder in the Fernwood neighborhood. The incident happened in the 200 block of West 103rd...
View ArticleAt Least One Suspect Captured After Police Are Led On Pursuit From Far South...
DOLTON, Ill. (CBS) — A suspect was captured Tuesday night after a wild police chase through Chicago and into the south suburbs. As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported, the suspects ran from police on the...
View ArticleCarjackers Target 2 Victims Within An Hour In Mount Greenwood, Beverly
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police issued a community alert Sunday about two carjackings in Mount Greenwood and Beverly that are believed to be related. The incidents both happened early Sunday morning within an...
View ArticleVideo Shows Armed Suspects Attacking Man In Mount Greenwood Subway Restaurant...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police on Tuesday released surveillance video of three suspects wanted in a carjacking at a Subway restaurant in Mount Greenwood this past weekend. The video shows the suspects storming...
View ArticleAlarm In Mount Greenwood After 2 Paintball Attacks In Broad Daylight
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two people were attacked with a paintball gun in broad daylight this week in Mount Greenwood. CBS 2’s Meredith Barack spoke Tuesday to two of the victims, who said they are concerned...
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