East Garfield Park

Chicago police have launched a death investigation after a 46-year-old man was found with what appeared to be apparent head trauma in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, officials said. Willie Daniel, 46, of the 1400 block of South Canal Street was...

At least seven people were shot Friday between noon and about 8 p.m., according to Chicago police. Two died. One man was killed about noon on the 4800 block of South Laflin Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Two others were wounded nearby...

A woman driving with her mother and 2-year-old nephew was shot in the face when someone fired at a man on the street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood early today, police said. The shooting in the 100 block of North Kedzie Avenue happened just...

A brawl that erupted in the lunchroom of an East Garfield Park neighborhood high school today left four female students under arrest and the Chicago Police officer who tried to break it up bitten in the hand. Danielle McClinton, who police say “...

Gov. Pat Quinn today named seven people to a state commission that will oversee a privately funded scholarship program designed to help undocumented immigrants pay for college. The scholarship fund was created by the Illinois DREAM Act, which Quinn...

Chicago Police shut down a party early Saturday morning after getting a report of a person with a gun and arriving to find an unlicensed “social club” called Cash Money on Deck. The group – also known as CMOD – was described by...

At least six people were wounded early Sunday morning in four shootings across the city. The shootings happened as far north as Uptown, which has seen a rash of shootings over the past three weeks, and as far south as Englewood, with two other...

Two people were killed and three others wounded in shootings Friday night on the South and West sides, according to police. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the stomach and a 20-year-old man was shot in the head about 9 p.m. Friday in the 1900 block of West...

One person was arrested this morning and a number of laptop computers were recovered following a burglary at a West Side charter school. Marcus Sibley, 21, has been charged with six counts of burglary at a school, police said, adding there were as many...

Chicago police are investigating a hit-and-run crash this morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood that left a pedestrian seriously injured. The incident happened at about 6 a.m. near Madison Street and Sacramento Avenue, said Chicago Police...

Two people were hospitalized after being shot in a drive-by this afternoon in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, officials said. The shooting happened at about 4 p.m. on the 700 block of North Springfield Avenue, said Chicago Police News Affairs...

A man was seriously injured when he jumped from the second floor of a townhouse in the East Garfield Park neighborhood this evening, a Fire Department spokesman said. Firefighters were called to the 2600 block of West Wilcox Street just after 5:30 p.m....