Overnight shootings in the area have left two dead and four others injured, including three men from a drive-by shooting in the 7000 block of South Paxton Avenue. Three pit bulls mauled a 6-year-old boy in Garfield Park Friday evening. Police killed two of the dogs during the attack while the third dog escaped. The boy was last reported in serious condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. A 150-pound chlorine tank leaked Friday evening in St.......

Three Maywood teens were killed and a fourth injured early Saturday morning when the car they were in was riddled with bullets. Now, two days after the shooting, the families and police are left asking, "Why?" Devin Stokes (left), Kent Flowers Jr. (center), and Oscar Pritchett (right), all 18-years old, were killed in the shooting. A fourth boy remains in critical condition, though media outlets are not identifying him because he is considered a witness.......

A rash of shootings overnight in Chicago's South Austin neighborhood that occurred with a two-hour span left three men dead and two others injured. It's still unclear if the shootings were related. Michael Guyton was found dead in the 4900 block of West Hubbard Street by Austin district beat officers around 11 p.m. last night. He had been shot multiple times and officers did not have any information about a suspect. Shortly after midnight, there......

The tragic epidemic of Chicago Public School students being killed continues. Percy Rounds (pictured), 15, was killed by gunfire just after 10 p.m. last night in the 100 block of West 116th Street. Two unknown men emerged from a nearby gangway, approached Rounds and an unnamed friend, and opened fire, striking Rounds in the head. He was pronounced dead at the Stein Institute a few hours later. The other teen, 17, was struck in thigh......

Not to sound like a broken record but Sunday night and Monday morning saw a rash of violence to start the week off on the wrong foot. A woman was killed Sunday night in the Back Of The Yards neighborhood, the apparent victim of a "domestic-related" murder. Police were holding a "male friend" in connection to the killing. The woman's body was found in a garage in the 5100 block of South Damen. Dalon Russell,......

As Police Supt. Weis and G-Rod spar over bringing in the National Guard and State Police to quell the rise in violence, crime continues and makes us wonder if we'd be better off with the Man of the Moment. A shooting in West Humboldt Park left three men injured. The shooting occurred shortly before 9 p.m. in the 800 block of North Keeler Avenue. Two men, 23 and 22 years-old, were treated at Stroger Hospital......

Just as Alderman Isaac Carothers is calling out top Cop Jody Weis, Chicago saw Thursday morning open with more shootings. The first happened on the North Side, in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, around 3 a.m. A 24 year-old man was shot in the 5600 block of North Winthrop Avenue following what witnesses described as an argument with another man. The victim is currently in critical condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. A pair of......

The city continues to lose its ever-lovin' mind as four people were shot in the Loop Thursday night, one fatally, as roughly a million people left Grant Park following the city's annual lakefront fireworks display. The gunshots sent the crowd of celebrators scattering for cover behind cars. The first shooting happened near Dearborn and Van Buren. Courtney Thomas, 20, was shot in the head around 10:40 p.m. and pronounced dead shortly thereafter at Northwestern Memorial......