Homicide Watch Chicago

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eight people were murdered throughout Chicago last week, raising the city’s homicide total to nearly 100. Five of the eight killings happened over the weekend, which also saw 35 other people wounded by gunfire. The most recent murder happened when 40-year-old Cicero resident Benito Juarez was stabbed during … Read more →

Cindy Bahena was fatally shot while riding in a vehicle through the Logan Square neighborhood early Sunday. Bahena, 21, was a backseat passenger in a vehicle traveling east in the 3500 West Fullerton Avenue about 12:35 a.m., authorities said. A group of males standing on a nearby sidewalk yelled gang slogans at the vehicle then … Read more →