A man followed a 14-year-old girl as she was walking home from her Northwest Side school Thursday and tried to convince her to get into his vehicle, police said today in a community alert. The girl was in the vicinity of Belden and Campbell Avenues a
The parents of a West Chicago Middle School student are accusing school officials of mishandling an incident this week in which their 12-year-old son suffered serious injuries. Isidro Velazquez has a brain bleed, a fractured sinus and several facial
A 32-year-old man was charged today in connection with a three-vehicle crash that left nine people injured in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood, authorities said. Luis C. Molina, of the 4700 block of South Kedvale Avenue was cha
Murder charges were approved against a second teen implicated in the beating and fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Southwest Side boy who refused to acknowledge his assailants' gang, authorities said. The latest first-degree murder charges were f