Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 28 people died from violence last week, including 10 over a bloody weekend that pushed the city’s murder total closer to the 700 mark than it has been in many years. The week’s total, more reminiscent of a summer weekend that early November, brought the 2016 homicide … Read more →

Eighteen-year-old Deon Virges ran into a business after being shot late Friday along the border of the Park Manor and Chatham neighborhoods, but died just moments later. About 11 p.m., Virges ran into a store in the first block of East 75th Street with a gunshot wound to the throat, according to Chicago Police and … Read more →