Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Homicide Watch Chicago As the temperatures started to heat up last week, the homicide total in CHicago jumped to 19 last week, matching the high for any week so far in 2017. And the year continues to keep pace with 2016’s total of about 780 homicides, the highest total in the city … Read more →

Two teenage boys called best friends—16-year-old Corey Hill Jr. and 15-year-old Jacques Mack—were killed in a shooting Wednesday morning in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. The boys were standing on the sidewalk in the 1200 block of South Lawndale at 9:06 a.m., according to Chicago Police. A silver vehicle pulled up an … Read more →