A man sexually assaulted a woman as she walked in the Loop this afternoon. Then, police say, another woman stabbed the rapist in his eye. Charges pending. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/byst...

Two masked gunmen fired at least 50 rounds at a crowd in Back of the Yard overnight. They killed 2 people and injured 5 more. Now, Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for info that cracks the case. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/gunm...

The feds have charged two men with kidnapping a DePaul student and taking him on a horrifying crosstown Red Line ride, threatening to kill him along the way as they extorted ransom money from his friends and family. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/feds...

Martin Guerrero ran a red light and crashed into an SUV in Humboldt Park last summer. Prosecutors say parolee Keon Slater got out of the SUV, gave a pistol to a 10-year-old, then took the gun back and murdered Guerrero in a cold-blooded fit of rage. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/cold...

Last spring, at least three people opened fire in a Back of the Yards liquor store, injuring five people. Now, one of the accused has pleaded guilty. Sentence: 10 years. Plus 5 more years for the gun case he had pending at the time. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/one-...

New allegations in the NW Side forest preserve sexual assault case: • The assailant choked the victim until she was unconscious. • DNA links him to with odds of 14,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/fore...

A CPS counselor is charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a former male student and soliciting child porn from the boy and a former female student. He’s the second Gresham School of Excellence worker charged with grooming students since October. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/cps-...

A guy tried to open the emergency exit while flying from San Juan to Chicago. Unfortunately for him, a former MMA fighter was on the plane. Also unfortunate for him: that’s a federal crime. Charges filed. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/form...

Those must have been some really nice shoes. This guy has received a 5-year prison sentence for robbing two Red Line passengers of their shoes and other property last summer. Good news: Illinois gives its prisoners free shoes! cwbchicago.com/2026/06/red-...

Last June, Chicago cops caught a 16-year-old with an AR-style pistol equipped with a 40-round magazine. A judge put him on an ankle monitor, then removed it a month later. Two weeks later, prosecutors say, the 16-year-old murdered this man. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/judg...

Was it worth it? A woman who shot a man while riding a Red Line train near Argyle — because he became angry when she spat on him — received an 18-year prison sentence yesterday. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/woma...

A young Chicago doctor who helped spinal cord patients recover may never practice medicine again, prosecutors say. Why? Because a hit-and-run driver slammed into him as he rode his bike on the Near West Side. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/doct...

Prosecutors say he threatened an Ohio man on the Green Line, tried to steal his camera, and fired a gun when the victim trapped him between train cars. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/gunm...

He killed a man on the Northwest Side on December 11, 2021. Then he killed another man on the Northwest Side a week later. Now, he’s going to prison -- but only for 40 years. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/chic...

JUST IN: An arsonist killed a family of four last month in West Englewood. Now, we have a photo of the killer, and Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for information that brings him to justice. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/10k-...

CPD has arrested a FIFTH juvenile in connection with the “Lakeview Goons” mob attack in Roscoe Village. The latest arrest took place Friday at a private high school in the neighborhood. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/5th-...

CPD is looking for a man who followed two boys into a bathroom at a Portage Park discount store and sexually abused them. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/man-...

A 2-year-old boy looking for juice found a 5-time felon’s loaded handgun instead, prosecutors say. Now, the boy is dead and the felon — who was on pretrial release — is facing even more charges. cwbchicago.com/2026/06/boy-...

He’s charged with mugging a 74-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman on the CTA. Detectives identified him because he was wearing the same clothes he had worn when cops arrested him for shoplifting a couple of weeks earlier. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/same...

A shooting victim lay in a vacant lot for roughly 10 hours Saturday before a passerby found him. No one called 911 about the gunfire, even though neighbors told cops they heard the shots. The block used to be covered by ShotSpotter. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/vict...

Prosecutors say he attacked two strangers with a nail-riddled board in the Loop. One victim was knocked unconscious, underwent surgery, and remained hospitalized for days. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/man-...

After a week-long manhunt, prosecutors have charged a man with sexually assaulting a woman at a Northwest Side forest preserve last weekend. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/man-...

A drag racer who was allegedly intoxicated when he slammed into another car at 102 mph, killing its driver has been ordered to pay the victim’s family $21 million. He’s also facing reckless homicide charges. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/21-m...

A 28-year-old man is fighting for his life after being shot in West Town overnight. Witnesses say a black sedan with three occupants had been circling the block before the gunfire. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/man-...

The man killed in a shootout with the FBI yesterday was a parole absconder and a bank robbery crew “mastermind,” according to the feds. Now, they've charged another man with being a member of the “100K gang.” cwbchicago.com/2026/05/man-...

The Venezuelan migrant accused of murdering Loyola freshman Sheridan Gorman at Loyola Beach earlier this year is now accused of having a 6-inch shank inside the Cook County Jail. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/loyo...

The suspected bank robber killed in a shootout with the FBI yesterday was on felony pretrial release and had a previous conviction for robbing a bank in the suburbs, records show. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/susp...

Prosecutors say he sexually assaulted a woman after giving her a drink during a concert at the Aragon Ballroom last month. Surveillance video allegedly showed him carrying the woman outside the venue and then arriving at a suburban home. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/subu...

Two more juveniles have been charged with the mob attack and robbery of a Roscoe Village man last month, bringing the total number charged to four. All are 15 or 16 years old. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/2-mo...

Cops stopped a 10-time felon for smoking and drinking beer on the Blue Line. They found a stolen gun in his bag. Now, he’s heading to federal prison for three years. 👋🚂 cwbchicago.com/2026/05/fede...

The mayor says CPD responds faster since he disconnected ShotSpotter. There are problems with a study he cited: • It didn't include shots fired calls ‼️ • It compared spring/summer response times to fall/winter • CPD response time data is badly flawed cwbchicago.com/2026/05/mayo...

For 15 years, Chicago’s leadership has been punting on the persistent and growing problem of teen “takeovers.” (They used to be called “flash mobs.”) The problem has been punted and pigeonholed by three mayors and eight police superintendents. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/15-y...

Bodycam video shows a CPD officer shooting through the windshield of his squad car to neutralize a gunman who opened fire on him in January, according to COPA. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/vide...

A new report shows that 1/3 of shoplifters on ankle monitors in Cook County are missing. So are about 25% of robbery defendants who are supposed to be on house arrest. And nearly a quarter of car thieves, too. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/more...

A 12-year-old girl walked to a corner store and never came home — until Cook County Sheriff's deputies showed up to evict the man prosecutors say kidnapped and raped her. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/sher...

Chicago's airbag thieves have gotten bold. This one worked the day shift in Humboldt Park on Monday. His buddy openly carried a firearm. A CWB reader caught the whole thing on video. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/caug...

He didn’t just hit 5 cops with his car, prosecutors say. He hit one and kept driving. Then hit another and kept driving. Then hit 3 more and kept driving. And finally crashed into a squad car and a pole...all with a gun tucked in his waistband. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/arme...

This guy punched a woman and at least one other victim in the face while riding the Red Line near Belmont yesterday. Now CPD needs a little help figuring out who this hulking 250-pounder is. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/man-...

Gunmen shot 39 people in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend. While better than most Memorial Day weekends in Chicago, it is a sharp increase in shootings compared to last year. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/39-p...

This is the gunman who shot three people as CPD tried to quell an enormous “large group” incident in Hyde Park last night. CPD needs help identifying him and tracking him down. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/gunm...

JUST IN: CPD says this is the guy who tried to kill five Chicago cops by ramming them with his car at a street gathering on the Near West Side yesterday. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/driv...

Shortly after carjacking two men, he hopped on social media, displayed the license plate, and bragged: “We got the keys to this bitch!” Lawyers call that “evidence.” It’s a decision he'll surely be reviewing as he serves his 8-year prison sentence. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/we-g...

A now-former Uber driver is now charged with raping an 18-year-old woman while giving her a ride home from a graduation party. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/uber...

Passengers on a CTA bus helped free a woman who was grabbed and sexually abused by a convicted felon who sat next to her, Chicago police say. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/ride...

A 17-year-old boy was shot while sleeping in Edgewater early Sunday. Police say someone fired shots in the alley and a bullet flew through his window. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/boy-...

NOW: A driver plowed into a group of CPD officers who were working to contain a huge gathering on the Near West Side overnight, injuring 4 cops and at least 1 other person, according to preliminary info. About 500 people were at the gathering. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/driv...

An ATM burglary crew is jailed pending trial after they allegedly stole a Bitcoin machine (oops!), put it back, then took an ATM — only to crash outside the Cook County Jail as cops chased them. One of ‘em stole a deputy’s squad car, sparking a second chase. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/atm-...

A man this week received a 62-year sentence for murdering a promising 15-year-old after dismissal at Golder College Prep in 2022. Because he was 16 days shy of his 18th birthday when he killed the boy, he's eligible for parole consideration in 20 years. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/form...

This parolee shot at a woman and then opened fire on responding Chicago police officers with two guns, including an AR-15 rifle equipped with a machine gun conversion device, prosecutors say. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/paro...

A judge let him out of jail on a gun case, but records show he never checked in with court officers like he was supposed to. He did, however, rob two delivery drivers at gunpoint while he was on the streets, they say. cwbchicago.com/2026/05/chic...