by JimThackerSAFE24 | Feb 3, 2022 | Chicago Crime, Illinois Crime, Illinois News, McHenry, News & Events
The worst experience of Angela Osorio’s life was while she was detained at the McHenry County Jail last year, the 40-year-old mother of three said at a rally Tuesday outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in downtown Chicago. Osorio spoke at...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Feb 3, 2022 | Chicago Crime, Illinois Crime, Illinois News
Illinois Senate Republicans float an anti-crime package that features a “two-strikes-and-you’re-out” clause and more police funding. Does it have any chance in the Legislature? Illinois Senate Republicans tightened the screws another notch on what the GOP...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Feb 3, 2022 | Chicago Crime, Illinois Crime
An out-of-town company scraps its plan for a local office after a shootout near the Fulton Market tech hub, as scary street violence chills recruiting in the fast-growing sector. At about 5 p.m. on a Wednesday in late September, gunmen in two cars sped down Milwaukee...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | Chicago Crime
CHICAGO — Eighteen people were shot, four fatally, in Chicago gun violence over the weekend, police said. One teenage boy was fatally shot and another critically wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Little Village on the Southwest Side. The teen boys were...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | Chicago Crime
The new year is still quite young, but things aren’t looking good on CompStat, the Chicago Police Department’s internal scoreboard report. You can see the PDF here. Through the first 23 days of January, reports in seven major crime categories were up a combined 24%...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | Chicago Crime, News & Events
ROGERS PARK — Jeff Kelley had just arrived in Rogers Park from California to visit his daughter when he became the first victim of a prolific armed robbery spree. As he was pulling luggage out of his daughter’s car just after 10 p.m. Nov. 22, Kelley noticed a man...
