A Chicago Fire Department paramedic was wounded in a hit-and-run after a car crashed into an ambulance Tuesday in Lawndale on the West Side. The ambulance was southbound about 1:15 p.m. in the 700 block of South California Avenue when it was struck by a Toyota that was westbound on Flournoy Street, Chicago police said. The Toyota drove off after…

A high school student armed with pepper spray missed her mark Friday morning at Manley Career Academy in Lawndale, sending five of her peers to the hospital. The 17-year-old girl was allegedly seeking revenge when she released the spray about 10 a.m. Friday in the direction of a 16-year-old boy, Chicago police said. But she missed him and hit five…

A high school student armed with pepper spray missed her mark Friday morning at Manley Career Academy in Lawndale, sending five of her peers to the hospital. The 17-year-old girl was allegedly seeking revenge when she released the spray about 10 a.m. Friday in the direction of a 16-year-old boy, Chicago police said. But she missed him and hit five…

A 27-year-old man was arrested Saturday after he pointed a BB gun at officers inside a Lawndale police station, according to police. About 8 a.m., the man walked into the Harrison District police station at 3151 W. Harrison St., and approached the front desk, Chicago police said. While “voicing his disdain for law enforcement,” the man pulled out a gun…

A fire at a Lawndale apartment building forced several people, including children, to jump from a third-floor window early Friday in a dramatic escape caught on video. Sandra Torres reports.

A fire at a Lawndale apartment building forced several people, including children, to jump from the third floor window early Friday in a dramatic escape caught on video. Sandra Torres reports.

A fire at a Lawndale apartment building forced several people, including children, to jump from the third floor window early Friday in a dramatic escape caught on video.

A fire at a Lawndale apartment building forced several people, including children, to jump from the third floor window early Friday in a dramatic escape caught on video. The fire took place at around 4 a.m. at the three-story building in the 1200 block of South Central Park Avenue on Chicago’s West Side, officials said. There was heavy fire in…

Chicago police are warning Lawndale residents about a series of recent carjackings in the West Side neighborhood. In each incident, someone walked up to the victim, pulled out a handgun and demanded their vehicle, police said. The carjackings happened: · About 6:10 p.m. Dec. 15 in the 1600 block of South Ridgeway Avenue; · About 7:20 p.m. Dec. 18 in…

A fire in Lawndale on Sunday left one woman with serious injuries and nine people without access to their West Side home. The blaze was reported about 10:30 a.m. at a building in the 4200 block of West 21st Street, according to the Chicago Fire Department. One woman was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, fire officials said....

A second murder charge has been filed against a man in connection with a series of fatal stabbings committed over five days last year in Lawndale.

A suspect is in custody and facing charges in the murder of a Little Village nurse. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the story.

A 3-year-old boy was shot Thursday as he sat inside of a car in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood. NBC 5’s Michelle Relerford has the story.

Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller discusses a shooting that wounded a 3-year-old boy sitting in a car parked outside a library on Thursday.

A toddler was struck by a stray bullet in a shooting on Chicago’s West Side Thursday morning, according to police.

A 13-year-old girl was badly hurt after being shot on Chicago’s West Side on Sunday afternoon.

A total of 25 people were shot in a span of less than four hours on Sunday morning in Chicago, and police are scrambling to increase patrols to address the spasm of violence.

Mere hours after seven people were shot near a playground in Douglas Park, eight more people were shot in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood, according to police.

Three members of a white supremacist group were sentenced Friday to between two and three years in prison for punching, kicking and choking anti-racism protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia and political rallies in California.