Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 16 people were killed last week in Chicago as the city’s homicide total edged closer to the 600 mark, a number not seen in decades. That number included seven people killed in a bloody 12-hour period starting just before 7 p.m. Friday and ending about 7 a.m. … Read more →

Aaron Jackson was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood late Thursday on the Southwest Side. Just before 10 p.m., the 25-year-old was on a sidewalk in the 1500 block of South Komensky, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A dark-colored minivan drove by, and someone inside fired … Read more →