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Feb 5, 2025 · CHICAGO — A woman who worked as a “psychic” at three Lakeview storefronts has pleaded guilty to defrauding a customer by promising to remove a curse from the victim for $72,000.

Feb 17, 2025 · The head of the agency that investigates allegations of significant wrongdoing by Chicago police officers, including cops involved in shootings, quit last week because the city's police oversight commission was planning to recommend she be fired, the president of the local Fraternal Order of Police lodge.

Feb 12, 2025 · A judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for raping a woman he picked up from a Lakeview bar while working as an Uber driver. He received an additional seven years for sexually abusing a child in a separate case, court records show.

Feb 26, 2025 · Cleodious “J.R.” Schoffner, 48, sits in a visitation cell at Lawrence Correctional Center on December 16, 2024 in Sumner, Illinois. Schoffner. is serving a natural life sentence – he was sentenced at 20 under Illinois’ “accountability theory” which holds accomplices to the same standards as those who directly committed serious crimes.

Feb 2, 2025 · CHICAGO — Surveillance video has emerged showing a garbage collector with a concealed carry license shooting two would-be robbers as he worked outside a Chicago elementary school on Friday. Police said one of the robbers was killed and the other was critically injured, but the armed sanitation worker was not harmed.

Jan 17, 2025 · Two men, one on parole for four robberies and the other on probation for his fifth felony, are charged with carjacking two drivers at gunpoint just minutes apart in Lakeview. The hijackings occurred in quick succession around 11:50 p.m. last Friday, January 10.

Left to right: Carlos Carreno-Carreno, Yonnier Guasamucare Garcia, Fernando Loyo-Rodriguez, and Wilker Gutierrez Sierra. (Chicago Police Department)

Dec 23, 2024 · A Cook County judge has sentenced a man to 43 years in prison for carrying out a mass shooting that left two people dead and seven injured near the Magnificent Mile in May 2022. Jaylun Sanders, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of murder on November 18 and received his sentence today from Judge Adrienne Davis.

Feb 9, 2025 · In a pair of warnings issued late last year, detectives linked a single burglary crew to at least 30 business burglaries in neighborhoods stretching from Beverly to Wicker Park to Jefferson Park. Now, prosecutors have charged one man with participating in …