Garfield Park

Before this week, 33-year-old Adam Hollingsworth was known as the “Dread Head Cowboy.” As of Monday, Chicago’s mayor gave him a new title: “Census Cowboy.” “Everyone keeps complaining about funding for schools and all this brutality. If we want power, we need to stand up,” Hollingsworth told NBC 5. As a way to encourage Chicago residents to fill out the…

The Chicago Park District has partnered with the Garfield Park Conservatory to sell the flowers that would have been planted in gardens across the city.

Chicago police arrested a woman after she hit an officer while trying to flee a traffic stop in Garfield Park Saturday night. It happened around 8:10 p.m. in the 100 block of S. Pulaski Road when officers in an unmarked car pulled over a Jeep Grand Cherokee, authorities said. As one of the officers approached the SUV, police said the…

Six Chicago police officers were hurt in a crash Saturday in Garfield Park on the West Side. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the latest details.

Bail was denied for a security guard charged with shooting and critically wounding a man Wednesday inside a liquor store in Garfield Park on the West Side. Alphonso Walton, 40, is charged with one felony count each of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, according to Chicago police. Walton…

Two people were robbed recently near the Pulaski Blue Line station in Garfield Park on the West Side, according to police.

Chicago Police said they arrested a 60-year-old woman in the aftermath of a crash that sent two officers to the hospital Saturday night. It happened around 11:47 p.m. in the 600 block of N. Pulaski Rd. in Garfield Park. Officers were headed southbound on Pulaski — en route to a call of a car fire — when the woman turned…

Five people, including three children, were hurt after a shooting at a West Side barber shop. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the story.

A 30-year-old man is charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot a man and then fired shots at police officers Friday in Garfield Park.

A man’s trial date has been set after a potential plea deal fell apart in the case of a dismembered 2-year-old boy.

A 35-year-old woman is facing charges that she sexually abused two teenage boys in west suburban Villa Park.

Chicago police ended their search of the Garfield Park lagoon Sunday after several body parts belonging to a toddler were discovered there.

Chicago police ended their search of the Garfield Park lagoon Sunday after several body parts belonging to a toddler were discovered there.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy released a sketch Thursday of the child whose dismembered remains were found in a Chicago lagoon.

Investigators on Wednesday said the discovery of a toddler’s dismembered remains in a Chicago lagoon is “unimaginable” and called for anyone with knowledge on the child’s death to come forward.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, police command staff and Area North detectives will hold a press conference Thursday afternoon to release a composite sketch of the child whose remains were found in a Garfield Park lagoon.

Officials on Tuesday revealed more details about child body parts found in a Chicago lagoon over the weekend.

The Cook County medical examiner has estimated the age of a child whose body parts were found in the Garfield Park lagoon over the weekend. After the head of the child was recovered Sunday night, the medical examiner determined the child was African American and most likely between 2 and 3 years old. The cause and manner of death are...