Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 19 people were killed in Chicago violence last week, pushing the year’s homicide total to over the 550 mark, a number that could go up when pending autopsy results are complete. One of those undetermined cases involved a severed head and other body parts that were found … Read more →

Joaquin Gonzalez was gunned down in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Friday evening. The 21-year-old was shot in the chest about 5:30 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene in the 2600 block of West Haddon, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Gonzalez lived in the 7700 block of South Peoria. … Read more →