Four teenagers were injured in a mass shooting in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood on Sunday night. Around 11:30 p.m., Chicago police said a man pulled out a gun and fired shots into a crowd of people after arguing with another man in the 700 block of South Springfield Avenue.

Five fatal shootings happened over a three-hour span from Friday into Saturday. A woman was also charged with murder after allegedly drowning her 1-year-old son.

CHICAGO - The family of a man killed in a shooting last year at Chicago’s Navy Pier is filing a wrongful death lawsuit. Peter Jennings, 47, was one of the victims killed along with Lamont Johnson, 51.

Chicago police said the men were outside, in the first block of North Western Avenue, around 10:40 p.m., when shots were fired by someone inside a vehicle.

Two people were shot outside a suburban nightclub in North Chicago early Monday morning, police said. This happened at Frank's Lounge on Green Bay Road. North Chicago police said they responded to the scene about 12:50 a.

Peter Jennings was one of two Levy Restaurants employees who were killed Nov. 5, 2024. Raylon East, 36, turned himself in to police two days later and has been charged in the slayings. The suit names East,

Allen Hall hunched at a picnic table outside the University of Chicago Medical Center last week under the beating sun, his head in his hands. A few days before, Hall’s 24-year-old daughter, Arneka McReynolds,

Chicago is seeing a historic drop in violent crime in the first half of the year. According to the Chicago Police Department, homicides and shootings are both down more than 30% in the first six months of the year compared to 2024.