(Sun Times Wire) One man was killed and another two were wounded in a 20-minute span between about 7:10 p.m.…
(Tribune) Robert Torres, founder of the nonprofit Parents for Peace and Justice, said gun violence has become so commonplace in…
(Sun Times Wire) A former Chicago police commander who was praised for reducing crime on the South Side is facing…
(Sun Times Wire) Two men were killed and another was wounded in shootings between about 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and three others were wounded between about 12:45 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Monday…
(Sun Times Wire) One man was killed and another two were wounded in a 20-minute span between about 7:10 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in shootings on the South Side and West Side. The most recent shooting left one man dead and another wounded in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, according…
(Tribune) Robert Torres, founder of the nonprofit Parents for Peace and Justice, said gun violence has become so commonplace in Chicago that it seems as if the public has become immune. “If the news is not moving you, if these mothers and families are not moving you and impacting you, we’re going to bring you…
(Sun Times Wire) A former Chicago police commander who was praised for reducing crime on the South Side is facing a charge that he stole $360,000 in Social Security funds over a period of 23 years. Kenneth Johnson, 54, was charged with stealing about $363,064 in funds from June 1994 to November 2017, according to…
(Sun Times Wire) Two men were killed and another was wounded in shootings between about 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on the South Side. The most recent fatal shooting happened at 10:27 p.m. in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Officers responded to a call of shots fired and found 33-year-old David…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and three others were wounded between about 12:45 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Monday in shootings across the city. The day’s only fatal shooting happened about 9 p.m. in the South Side Gresham neighborhood, police said. Charles A. Betton, 40, was standing on the sidewalk about 9 p.m. in…
(Fox) Three people have been killed and 17 others wounded in Chicago gun violence since Friday evening. Much of the bloodshed reported this weekend unfolded Sunday, when at least 13 people were shot — one fatally. Two people were killed, and four others were wounded on Saturday. Meanwhile, the start of the weekend was markedly…
(Fox) Authorities say a police officer who was responding to a shooting at a suburban Chicago bar fatally shot an armed security guard who was working there. The Cook County sheriff’s office says officers responded shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday to a call of shots fired at Manny’s Blue Room in Robbins. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sophia…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five shootings, one of them fatal, unfolded throughout the city on Thursday. The gun violence was reported from about 4 a.m. until 11 p.m. and left one person dead and four others wounded. The latest shooting was the homicide of a 33-year-old man in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were wounded by gunfire between about midnight and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on the South Side. The most recent shooting happened at 10:37 p.m. when a man was seriously wounded by gunfire in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. The 21-year-old was standing on a sidewalk in…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people, including a 16-year-old boy, were wounded by gunfire between about 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. The most recent shooting left a 23-year-old man seriously wounded in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About 8:40 p.m., the man was walking in the 4800 block…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five people were wounded by citywide gun violence on Monday. The most recent of the five shootings reported within a 24-hour span happened at night in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side. A 28-year-old man was walking about 8:15 p.m. in the 3000 block of West Fullerton when…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and 13 others wounded in citywide gun violence over the weekend. Three people were wounded between 5 p.m. and midnight on Friday, and two people were killed and five others wounded on Saturday. Four nonfatal shootings were reported Sunday. One man was seriously wounded before 5 a.m. Monday…
Maggio News Bloody Chicago VIDEO: Over the Halloween holiday were people were 6 killed and 44 were wounded in shootings across the Chicagoland area.
About three months ago on a crime scene in the woodlawn neighborhood, an older lady and I had an in-depth conversation about life and death, and the last she asked me was, if you were dead what would, you miss the most about life, and she said not the usual answers like family sex or food, something unique you have really enjoyed throughout your life, I stood there blank, I had no answer to her question.
And for months her question mincingly stayed with me, on Saturday over the Halloween weekend, my lady took me to a concert at the United center to see Elton John when the show started, it hit me. I now had the answer to her question, its music, if you think about it music marks the chapters of our lives it connects us to good times bad times, places and faces, and truly is a, wonderful human creation, my answer to you mam is, Its music, definitely music, for me, I will miss it so when I’m gone.
In 4 days Maggio News will release separate video in a kids version minus the violence of the 7th District Haunted House in Englewood.
Maggio News Signing off
(Fox) At least seven people were shot — one fatally — in citywide gun violence that began Thursday about 2 a.m. and concluded at 11:20 a.m. The sole gun homicide documented that day was a drive-by attack that killed one man and wounded another at night in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side,…
(Sun Times Wire) A decorated military veteran who sold firearms without a license — including the Glock used to kill Chicago Police Cmdr. Paul Bauer — was sentenced Thursday to about three years in prison in federal court in Wisconsin. Thomas Caldwell, 68, has significant physical and mental health challenges and has ended his obsession…
(Sun Times Wire) A woman was killed and five others wounded Wednesday in a series of citywide shootings over 24 hours. The homicide was the result of a violent carjacking in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side. About 9:20 p.m., Maria D. Coronel, 21, was a passenger in a parked vehicle in the…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and seven others wounded Tuesday in Chicago gun violence over a 24-hour period. The homicide happened about 3:25 p.m. in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, according to police. Two men were sitting in a vehicle at the intersection of 53rd Street and Ashland…
(Sun Times Wire) At least six people were wounded by gunfire on Monday in Chicago, following a period of heightened gun violence over Halloween weekend. From about 4:15 a.m. to 11:35 p.m., five shootings were reported — all nonfatal. The most recent gun violence happened late Monday in the Near West Side neighborhood. At 11:35…
(Sun Times Wire) At least 38 people were wounded, and five others were killed, including a teenage boy, in citywide shootings over the Halloween weekend. The weekend gun violence surpassed last year, when two were killed and 28 wounded in shootings over the same period of time, from 5 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday.…
(Sun Times Wire) Federal racketeering charges were announced Friday against four members of “a particularly violent” gang faction tied to nearly a dozen murders in Englewood. At least 18 members of the Goonie Boss faction of the Gangster Disciples terrorized the South Side neighborhood, according to a federal indictment. And about half of them, including…
(Sun Times Wire) Citywide gun violence on Thursday struck at least four people, including a restaurant owner from the northwest suburbs who died in the morning from a gunshot wound to the head. Peter Rim, 46, of South Barrington, was shot about 6:45 a.m. in the Northwest Side Belmont Gardens neighborhood, according to Chicago police…
(Tribune) Newly filed federal racketeering charges allege a South Side street gang faction was responsible for a three-year reign of terror in the Englewood community, including nearly a dozen killings that claimed the lives of rivals and innocent victims alike, sources told the Chicago Tribune. The indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury…
(Sun Times Wire) A Chicago police official said Thursday it’s “very probable” that two South Side shootings that claimed multiple victims each this week are related. On Monday, six people were wounded when mourners attending a funeral for a local rapper were fired upon about 12:30 p.m. outside of Bethlehem Star Missionary Baptist Church, 9231…
(Sun Times Wire) Friends and relatives of Dejanay Stanton joined LGBTQ activists in a rally Thursday outside Chicago Police Headquarters, where they demanded police do more to solve the nearby murder of the transgender woman two months ago. At the rally, 3510 S. Michigan Ave., speakers called for CPD to pour more resources into solving…
(Sun Times Wire) At least 10 people have been wounded in citywide shootings since the start of the day Wednesday. The most recent shooting wounded a 32-year-old man in the South Side Bridgeport neighborhood. About 9:30 p.m. the man was walking in the 3100 block of South Morgan Street when he heard gunfire and realized…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were wounded by gunfire between about 12:10 a.m. and 9:20 p.m. Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. The most recent shooting left a man wounded in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. The 29-year-old was sitting in a parked SUV about 9:25 p.m. in the 3100 block of West Taylor…
(Fox) All northbound lanes of traffic were closed after two people were killed and another was wounded when a vehicle sustained gunfire and crashed Monday night on Interstate 57 near south suburban Calumet Park. Bullets struck the vehicle about 7:55 p.m. on I-57 near 123rd Street, according to Illinois State Police. The vehicle then veered…
(Sun Times Wire) At least six people were shot after a funeral service for a Chicago rapper at a church Monday afternoon in the Burnside neighborhood on the South Side. The mass shooting happened about 12:30 p.m. outside Bethlehem Star Missionary Baptist Church, 9231 S. Cottage Grove, authorities said. The most seriously wounded was a…
(Tribune) Two-year-old Julien Gonzalez left the birthday party and walked through the backyard, apparently following his father toward a fight that was getting louder in the alley. As he aproached the gate, somene yelled out, “Bust, bust, bust,” an order to a fellow gang member to open fire. The little boy stepped into the alley…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people have been fatally shot and 17 others wounded in Chicago since 5 p.m. Friday. Seven people were shot Friday evening — two of them died from their wounds. On Saturday, three people were killed and four were wounded. Three men were shot when gunfire erupted about 3:40 p.m. Sunday in…
(Sun Times Wire) An 82-year-old man was shot while taking out the trash at night, the first of eight people wounded in citywide gun violence since Friday at 5:30 p.m. In the latest reported shooting, officers were searching for the scene where a man was seriously wounded early Saturday by gunfire that reportedly came from…
(WGN) Two people were wounded while sitting in an Englewood home Friday when a gunman outside fired shots through a window, police said. The incident happened about 6:40 p.m. Friday in the 5900 block of South Carpenter Street, according to the Chicago Police Department. It was not immediately clear whether the victims were targeted. An…
(ABC) Attorney General Jeff Session had harsh words for a proposed consent decree to reform the Chicago Police Department during a visit to Chicago Friday. He called it a seductive idea, but a bad one, and said police are not the problem in Chicago, criminals are. This is the third time Sessions has been to…
(Sun Times Wire) An alleged street gang member accused of killing two men in a fatal shooting in the Pilsen neighborhood last year is now facing a third murder charge in a drive-by shooting in Brighton Park. Derek Paige, 25, is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting of 30-year-old Benjamin Robles on Aug. 20,…
(Sun Times Wire) Thursday’s shootings left at least six people wounded — none fatally — across the city. The gun violence began about 2:30 a.m. and abated just before 10 p.m., when a 39-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. The woman was parking her car…
(Fox) At least five people were shot — one fatally — in shootings Wednesday across the city. The gun violence lasted from about 1:30 a.m. to 10:20 p.m. and began with the day’s only reported gun homicide, when a person was found lying down with a gunshot wound in the Chatham neighborhood on the South…
(ABC) Bail was set at $20 million for two Joliet men charged with shooting a pair of Will County sheriff’s deputies during a drug investigation Tuesday night in the southwest suburb. The deputies were executing a search warrant about 8:30 p.m. at a home in the 200 block of Richards Street when the shooting occurred,…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five people were shot — none fatally — in Chicago between about 2 a.m. and 4:20 p.m. Tuesday. The day’s most recent reported gun violence left a 16-year-old girl wounded late afternoon in the West Chatham neighborhood. The girl was walking with a friend about 4:20 p.m. in the 8000…
(Sun Times Wire) An elderly woman was shot to death and four people were wounded in shootings between about 1:30 a.m. and the final minutes of Monday on the South Side and West Side. An 89-year-old woman was found shot to death inside an apartment where a gunman had barricaded himself after shooting another woman…
(Fox) The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering $25,000 for information about a pregnant 26-year-old Chicago letter carrier who disappeared nearly two weeks ago. Police say Kierra Coles was last seen on Oct. 2 near her home in the South Side’s Chatham neighborhood. The woman’s mother, Karen Phillips, reported her missing on Oct. 4 after…
