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 →

Fredrick Vasquez was killed early Sunday in a Humboldt Park neighborhood shooting on the West Side. Vasquez, 29, was standing on the sidewalk at 1:28 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Monticello when someone in a gray vehicle opened fire, striking him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical … Read more →