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Just three months after being shot in the head, a young Chicago boy is out of the hospital and living the life of a typical 2-year-old.

Kayden Swann, 2, was shot in the head on Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Lake Shore Drive months ago and has been recovering since being released from the hospital. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

A Chicago mother says she had called her son to ask him to come home on Wednesday evening. Just minutes later, he was shot and killed in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez has the emotional story.

A 14-year-old boy was killed and 17 other people were wounded in three separate mass shootings that took place within a span of six hours across Chicago on Wednesday, according to police.

Eight people were wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday night in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side, according to police, becoming the third mass shooting in the city in the span of six hours. Jen DeSalvo has details.

Eight people were wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday night in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side, according to police.

At least 10 people were killed and another 51 wounded in shootings across Chicago over the weekend, according to police.

Multiple people were wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in Gresham on the South Side.

Four women and a man were shot Wednesday morning in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood on the city’s West Side, according to police.

Approximately 59 shell casings were found scattered at the scene where a rapper was fatally shot as he was being released from Cook County Jail on electronic monitoring over the weekend, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said Tuesday.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city is “very focused” on what happened when a man who was apparently ambushed after being released from the Cook County Jail suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds.

Police say a man who was apparently ambushed after being released from the Cook County Jail in Chicago suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds to his head and other parts of his body

A man who was apparently ambushed after being released from the Cook County Jail in Chicago suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds to his head and other parts of his body, police said.

A 30-year-old man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries following a shooting in the overnight hours on Interstate 55, Illinois State Police said Sunday afternoon. The shooting was reported at approximately 1 a.m. Sunday on I-55 southbound south of Pulaski Avenue. According to police, shots were fired from an unknown vehicle, causing the victim’s vehicle to veer off the expressway and…

At least 26 people have been shot, six fatally, so far this weekend across the city of Chicago, according to police records. In the most recent incident, a 26-year-old man died in a shooting Saturday evening in the Pilsen neighborhood on Chicago’s Lower West Side. The shooting was reported at approximately 6:03 p.m. in the 1800 block of South Paulina…

Chicago police announced an arrest Saturday afternoon in the deadly shooting of a couple at the city’s Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade last month. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen has the details.

Two men were shot and killed in the parking lot of a West Englewood gas station Saturday afternoon, according to police.

The United States Attorney’s Office has filed criminal charges in federal court against a 28-year-old man, accusing him of shooting a Chicago police officer and two ATF agents Wednesday. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers has the details.

With a recent surge in crime in Chicago, a new grant aims to fund community organizations in an effort to stop the violence before it begins. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

After more than 100 people were shot in the city of Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says that his administration is treating gun violence as a “public health crisis,” and that he is committed to investing in a wide variety of resources to address the situation. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez has more.