Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 16 people died from gunshot wounds in Chicago last week, capped by a bloody Sunday during which five were killed. And the murder total could rise, pending autopsy results on two bodies found inside a burning van on the Southwest Side. The week’s final homicide was a … Read more →

DeLon Sims was shot to death Wednesday night in the Oakland neighborhood. Sims, 23, was sitting in a vehicle about 9:16 p.m. in the 4000 block of South Lake Park, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was talking to someone standing outside the vehicle when that person pulled out … Read more →