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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was critically wounded in a shooting Friday morning in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Chicago police officers intervened in the shooting and exchanged gunfire, but did not shoot anyone, a police spokesman said. The shooting was initially reported as police-involved, but police later clarified that another shooter was involved. Shots were fired at and by police in the 1500-block of North Laramie Avenue, Chicago police spokesman Tom Ahern said on Twitter at 12:30...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was critically wounded in a shooting Friday morning in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Chicago police officers intervened in the shooting and exchanged gunfire, but did not shoot anyone, a police spokesman said. The shooting was initially reported as police-involved, but police later clarified that another shooter was involved. Shots were fired at and by police in the 1500-block of North Laramie Avenue, Chicago police spokesman Tom Ahern said on Twitter at 12:30...

Shots were fired at and by police in the 1500 block of North Laramie Avenue, Chicago police spokesman Tom Ahern said on Twitter. Paramedics responded to a man shot about 11:50 a.m. at Laramie Avenue and Le Moyne Street, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, Langford said. He was listed in critical condition. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said it was responding to the scene to investig...

Chicago police (left)/ Chicago Fire Dept. A 15-year-old boy faces a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a retired Chicago firefighter earlier this month outside a Morgan Park popcorn shop. The teen, who is not being identified because he is charged as a juvenile, was unarmed at the time of the shooting. He was with two other people who had guns when they confronted 65-year-old Dwain Williams Dec. 3 in an apparent robbery attempt, Cook County prosecutors said in court Thursday. Mayor Lori L...

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Was -- who was murdered in the line of duty. and all steps are taken out. but the community was just -- it was inspiring what the community did yesterday. the support that they gave us, from -- from food and from the red cross and people in the neighborhood that came over with -- with waters for law enforcement officers, the support which was very heart warming and appreciated by law enforcement. its often times the most tragic in their country bringing out the very best in people. you can see t...

He makes all of us want to become a police officer more and more. >> reporter: officials have just acknowledged theyve released two square mile perimeter they were searching yesterday, acknowledging that they do not believe that the three suspects are any longer in that immediate area surrounding the spot where they found gliniewiczs body and gliniewicz had been talking about retiring and been on the force 30 years, a really big part of this community. the chief had talked him into staying a lit...

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which he said, you know, today in 2005, a private suffers more grief for losing a rifle than a general suffers for losing a war. and its true, john reflected that being a general is really hard, and should be expected that many people fail at it. that command is famously hard. the american military had a tradition of firing general. there wasnt any shame in it. the military has completely lost the tradition. generals are essentially only fired by the president for political reasons now...

>> guest: it became clear to me that i was thought of as someone who was a dab hand with a turn of phrase but not necessarily a serious, hard news reporter. d i realized that if and ito make my way through the realize to wherever, i was going to have to convince them i could do that too. so i asked to go to city hall, and i covered the first two years of the koch administration which was so much fun. and, um, and once i did that, i got a column called "about new york" which was started...