After sending threatening text messages, the teen showed a gun to students on the North Side, police said.
No one was hurt in the incident Friday afternoon in the 4800 block of Broadway, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Police have released surveillance images of a suspect who is wanted for allegedly breaking into a woman's apartment and tying her up.
There were nine vehicle thefts in less than three weeks in February, police said.
Police said the assault happened on Recreation Drive on the lakefront.
The elderly man begged for his life, prosecutors said.
Police are investigating after a 24-year-old woman was robbed on the North Side.
An argument between two men ended with one being beaten by a group on Halsted, police said.
Police said a 19-year-old man was drunk when he allegedly assaulted a conductor on the North Side.
Chicago police have issued a community alert asking for any information about the city's first homicide of 2018.
The man caused a brief shutdown at the Sheridan Road station Tuesday after he ran onto the tracks, police said.
All three people were treated for smoke inhalation, police said.
The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene Friday.
The latest victim was a woman riding a Divvy bike on North Sedgwick Street in the early evening, according to reports.
There have been at least four armed robberies in the Lincoln Park and Gold Coast neighborhoods in under two weeks, police said.
In mid January, police were told a man died from a fall at a bar. This week officials determined the man died from a fight, not a fall.
Chicago police are looking for three suspects after several victims were assaulted and robbed.
A 23-year-old was taken to a hospital after getting into a fight in the Sheffield area, police said.
It happened on Saturday night on the 1000 block of West Barry Avenue, media outlets said.
Two men claim a Lyft driver pointed a gun at them in the Lake View neighborhood and used a homophobic slur.
Police released surveillance images of suspects who targeted nail salons in Roscoe Village and Sauganash.
Another gang shooting happened Wednesday night in Uptown, police said.
Suspects stole a woman's purse, then took off in her Mercedes.
Police were called to a home in Lake View after an 81-year-old woman told a family member that robbers forced her to withdraw money.
Police are investigating two North Side robberies.
Chicago police are searching for five more suspects.
A man was killed a block away from where three people were shot in a Starbucks Nov. 2.
The FBI said she was armed with a handgun.
Police said a limb washed up near the beach Tuesday morning.
The 18-year-old also was allegedly involved in an October armed robbery at a Near North Side CTA station, according to Chicago police.
The cold case is being featured on Crime Stoppers Nov. 11.
Police are searching for a suspect who targeted women who were alone.
Police are seeking the public's help in finding the person who beat and robbed a man who was found unresponsive at the Sheridan stop.
Police have issued a warning after multiple car thefts in Lake View, North Center, and Lincoln Park.
Authorities evacuated the Wrigleyville station Thursday morning, but a hazmat team determined the substance wasn't dangerous.
Hoytuan Pierce pleaded guilty last year to charges stemming from his gun accidentally discharging during a fight with 3 men.
The 54-year-old man was charged with teasing a police animal after an incident during the Crosstown Classic.
The West Garfield Park man was arrested with the weapon Saturday. He has been on parole for a 2013 conviction since August 2016.
Chicago police used cellphone pings to track down the 31-year-old man to a portable toilet at a construction site.
The conditions around Montrose Beach forced a Chicago police marine unit out of the water Monday.