Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 28 people died from violence last week, including 10 over a bloody weekend that pushed the city’s murder total closer to the 700 mark than it has been in many years. The week’s total, more reminiscent of a summer weekend that early November, brought the 2016 homicide … Read more →

Mark Higgins Jr., a father of five, was shot to death early Monday in an Englewood neighborhood apartment on the South Side. Higgins, 28, was found about 4 a.m. with gunshot wounds to the head and chest on the kitchen floor of a second-floor apartment in the 1100 block of West Garfield, according to Chicago … Read more →