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Deanese "Neacy" Williams-Harris was hired in 2007, and now works on the Crime & Justice desk. She is an alumna of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and the University of Illinois at Springfield, but her greatest accomplishment is her two sons, Mustafa and Niall. She also is a 16-year survivor of multiple sclerosis.
Shortly before 6 a.m., police found the boy in the 2700 block of West Van Buren Street with gunshot wounds to the head. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, police said.
National Weather Service officials are expecting dangerous swimming conditions at the shores of Lake Michigan, as well as a risk of thunderstorms Saturday in portions of north central and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana.
Ashley Gee, 32, got a notification from her cell phone saying her KIA Sportage vehicle was on the move. She had parked her vehicle in front of a friend’s residence on the South Side and she wasn’t driving it, her KIA was stolen.
A 16-year-old girl was pronounced dead, and another teenage girl was grazed by gunfire Monday night in the Englewood neighborhood, Chicago police said.
The Chicago police SWAT team was on the scene where a man barricaded himself after allegedly shooting a woman Wednesday morning in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood.