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6 shot, 1 fatally, Tuesday in Chicago By Sun-Times Media Wire were shot, one of them fatally Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was fatally shot in About 12:45 p.m., a man in his 30s was shot in the chest in the 700 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, Chicago police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not immediately release details on the death. In non-fatal shootings, a 65-year-old woman was wounded when she wa...

2 questioned after Chicago man shot dead in Hammond apartment By Sun-Times Media Wire Officers were called about 6 p.m. and found Clifford Holmes with a gunshot to his leg at an apartment in the 6900 block of Hohman Avenue, police spokesman Steven Kellogg said in an email. Holmes, of the West Pullman neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Lake County coroner’s office said in a statement. Police were questioning two people found inside the apartment, Kellogg said. It’s unclear w...

Sun-Times file photo Two people are being questioned by police after a 50-year-old Chicago man was found fatally shot Tuesday in Hammond, Indiana. Officers were called about 6 p.m. and found Clifford Holmes with a gunshot to his leg at an apartment in the 6900 block of Hohman Avenue, police spokesman Steven Kellogg said in an email. Holmes, of the West Pullman neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Lake County coroner’s office said in a statement. Police were questioning two peop...

Dorothy Holmes, the mother of Ronald “Ronnieman” Johnson, who was killed by Chicago police eight days before Laquan McDonald in 2014, poses for a photo inside her Rosemoor home beside toys she’ll give away this holiday season. After her son was killed, Holmes became active in the fight against police brutality and organized toy drives. This year, she is planning on distributing $2,000 worth of toys to kids on the South Side. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times While grieving the death of her son, Doroth...

Sun-Times file A 17-year-old boy is facing charges as adult in a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded in West Pullman last month. Nashaun Johnson and a 15-year-old relative snuck up on the two men on Nov. 21 as they sat in a car in the 12200 block of South Eggleston Avenue and opened fire, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday. Johnson later told detectives that he and his relative shot the two men over a dispute his relative had with them, prosecutors said. The 15-year-old bo...

Good news came out of Olympia last week, as well as Boise more than two weeks ago. COVID-19 vaccine availability has increased to the point where basically anyone who needs to get the jab can. It’s paid for as well, so in order to do my part to get back to normal — and I mean REAL normal — I… More Headlines

18 shot, 3 fatally, in Chicago this weekend By Sun-Times Media Wire Sunday evening, a man was found shot to death at a home in Washington Park. Officers conducting a well-being check at the home about 7 p.m. in the 300 block of East 53rd Street found the 27-year-old unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the neck, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Hours earlier, a man was killed in a shooting in Bronzeville on the South Side. A 37-year-old man was leaving a residential bui...

A 39-year-old man was fatally shot inside his home in the 500 block of East 89th Street.

Four people were shot, one of them fatally Thursday in Chicago.

A daycare center was burglarized four times in West Pullman on the Far South Side.