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CHICAGO (AP) — A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder in the likely gang-related fatal shooting of four men in and around a South Side Chicago restaurant, police announced Wednesday. Maurice Harris faces four counts of first-degree murder in the March 30 slayings in the South Shore neighborhood, Chicago police said in a statement. […]

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The Chicago Police Department said Thursday that four people were killed in four hours and a pregnant woman was found dead during a violent spree of attacks that included at least nine victims.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Four Chicago police officers who were at the scene of the 2014 fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald have been suspended for failing to ensure the dashboard cameras in their squad cars were operating properly. Chicago’s Office of Inspector General recommended the firing of 11 police officers in connection with the shooting. And […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago authorities say all police officers will be equipped with body cameras by the end of 2017, a year ahead of schedule. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says in a Wednesday statement announcing the speeded up schedule that body cameras “improve transparency while building trust.” Scrutiny of police intensified after the release of a […]

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In 2007, Blair Holt died covering Tiara Reed during a school bus shooting. She has vowed to spend her life paying his bravery forward.

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This weekend was the deadliest so far this year in Chicago. Between Friday afternoon and early Monday morning, nearly a dozen and a half people died, and 42 were injured by gun violence, outpacing last year in shootings and homicides. Of the 17 people who were killed, seven were younger than 20.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago mother thought she knew when it was safe to take her children outside, that she could protect them by sizing up and avoiding the people whom trouble seemed to follow. Then a bullet fired from a gun that D’Antignay Brashear never saw pierced the cheek of her 4-year-old son, Kavan […]

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Another deadly shooting in Chicago has happened. But this one is somewhat different because it happened on Facebook Live. The victim was Antonio Perkins, 28. He was enjoying time with some friends he hadn’t seen in while in Chicago’s North Lawndale area. Two of his three young children joined him to enjoy the warm weather. […]

City officials and community leaders are fearing the worst, saying that the heightened gun violence will only increase over the summer

City officials and community leaders are fearing the worst, saying that the heightened gun violence will only increase over the summer

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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police spokesman Frank Giancamilli says detectives are waiting to speak with a shooting victim who may have been videoing himself when he was shot multiple times. He says the 31-year-old man is sedated in a Chicago hospital Friday, a day after the shooting on the city’s South Side. Police say the […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — There have been about twice as many homicides and shootings so far this year in Chicago as compared to the same period in 2015, but the number of illegal guns seized has dropped, police said Tuesday. There were 95 homicides and more than 400 shooting incidents as of the end of February, […]