Community members gathered to call additional resources to address what they described as a surge in crime in Chicago, as police investigate multiple weekend shootings across the city that left several people injured and at least four people dead.
A suspect exchanged gunfire with a CPD officer after he shot and critically injured a man on the West Side early Saturday morning, officials said.
When the Gomez family arrived in Chicago in 2022 as new arrivals, they landed at Grace and Peace Church. Their new home is the first of four distressed West Side homes the church bought, rehabbed and sold.
A child was shot on the city's West Side on Wednesday morning.
The youngest suspect is 13-years-old, according to Chicago police. They are accused of robbing people at gunpoint on Sunday.
A 21-year-old man is now facing charges for an August 2023 shooting that left 14-year-old CPS student Rayjohn Harshaw dead on the South Side just days before the start of the school year, Chicago police said Thursday.