Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 9 people died from violence last week, including a 1-month-old baby whose death in Englewood was ruled a homicide by child abuse, as Chicago’s 2016 murder total neared 750. As of Wednesday morning, there have been at least 741 homicides in Chicago this year, according to Chicago … Read more →

Seventeen-year-old Elijah Jones was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. They were outside about noon in the 1000 block of North Harding when a gunman walked up and opened fire, hitting the woman in the leg and the boy in the … Read more →