Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 16 people were killed last week in Chicago as the city’s homicide total edged closer to the 600 mark, a number not seen in decades. That number included seven people killed in a bloody 12-hour period starting just before 7 p.m. Friday and ending about 7 a.m. … Read more →

Lyndell Hodges was killed and another man was wounded in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Hodges, 24, and a 36-year-old man were in a vehicle at 12:06 a.m., traveling in the 1800 block of North Laramie when someone in another vehicle fired shots at them, according to … Read more →