Chicago police said they found a woman unresponsive in a residence in an apartment building in the 1000-block of West Bryn Mawr with a gunshot wound to the head Monday afternoon.
She was pronounced at the scene. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified her as 23-year-old Brittany Nicole Kinlow.
Kinlow's aunt said she was a music major at UIC and was just days away from her May 9 graduation.
"Our hearts are torn to pieces," her aunt said in a social media post.
Police have not made any arrests in Kinlow's death. An investigation is ongoing.
Chicago police said they are now investigating a second death in that same building after a man's body was found Tuesday.