Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire Even unseasonably cold weather didn’t stop the violence last week in Chicago, where at least 11 people were fatally shot and another man was stabbed to death. A 13th fatality, also linked to gun violence, was a man who died six years after being shot on the West Side. … Read more →

Lauren Membreno died Saturday, one day after being shot in the head in the West Elsdon neighborhood, a shooting in which she was not the intended target, according to police. Membreno, 23, was in the front seat of a parked vehicle about 7 p.m. Friday in the 5500 block of South Karlov. That’s when another … Read more →