SHAREMurders more than doubled last month in Chicago compared to the same month last year, according to new data released by Chicago police.Shootings also increased compared July 2019. Still, police reported that overall crime in the city has decreased so far this year. The 105 murders reported in July are a nearly 139% increase from the 44 reported in July 2019, according to police data released Saturday. The 406 shooting incidents last month were a 75% increase from the 232 reported in the same month-to-month comparison.La Voz AARPLea este artículo en español en , un servicio presentado...…SHAREMurders more than doubled last month in Chicago compared to the same month last year, according to new data released by Chicago police.Shootings also increased compared July 2019. Still, police reported that overall crime in the city has decreased so far this year. The 105 murders reported in July are a nearly 139% increase from the 44 reported in July 2019, according to police data released Saturday. The 406 shooting incidents last month were a 75% increase from the 232 reported in the same month-to-month comparison.La Voz AARPLea este artículo en español en , un servicio presentado...WW…

SHAREFour people were hurt Saturday in three separate shooting incidents on expressways in the Chicago area.The earliest shooting happened just before 3 a.m. on Interstate 57 near 147th Street in south suburban Posen, according to Illinois State police. Two people were shot and hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. A third person in the vehicle wasn’t hurt. A couple hours later, a person was shot on Interstate 90/94 on the Near North Side on the Ontario feeder ramp, state police said.Responding officers found one person with a non-life threatening gunshot wound. That person was...…SHAREFour people were hurt Saturday in three separate shooting incidents on expressways in the Chicago area.The earliest shooting happened just before 3 a.m. on Interstate 57 near 147th Street in south suburban Posen, according to Illinois State police. Two people were shot and hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. A third person in the vehicle wasn’t hurt. A couple hours later, a person was shot on Interstate 90/94 on the Near North Side on the Ontario feeder ramp, state police said.Responding officers found one person with a non-life threatening gunshot wound. That person was...WW…

Filed under:Clifton Coleman was the alleged ringleader of an organization that distributed heroin at two intersections in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, according to prosecutors.Thirteen new arrests have been made in the second phase of “Operation Dirty Ice,” a drug trafficking investigation on Chicago’s West Side.Clifton “Big Homie” Coleman, 45, allegedly led a trafficking organization operating out of Austin, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. Coleman, of Westchester, was charged with conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with the intent...…Filed under:Clifton Coleman was the alleged ringleader of an organization that distributed heroin at two intersections in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, according to prosecutors.Thirteen new arrests have been made in the second phase of “Operation Dirty Ice,” a drug trafficking investigation on Chicago’s West Side.Clifton “Big Homie” Coleman, 45, allegedly led a trafficking organization operating out of Austin, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. Coleman, of Westchester, was charged with conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with the intent...WW…