McKinley Park

Patricia Deates went to the hospital Tuesday morning prepared to say a “final goodbye” to her 13-year-old son, one of the youngest victims of a violent weekend in Chicago. “Eric is a wonderful, bright child,” Deates said from her son’s bed at Stroger Hospital. Within hours, Eric Crawford was dead after being removed from life support, according to the...

A 13-year-old boy was shot Sunday in McKinley Park on the South Side.

A Chicago man was laid to rest just one week after he was found dead in the street in McKinley Park. Family said 21-year-old Jean Carlo Cobian was murdered— shot in the back of the head. Mourners gathered on Tuesday at a funeral home in Hickory Hills to pay their respects. “Every story that I’m hearing is like, ‘you...

A Chicago man was laid to rest just one week after he was found dead in the street in McKinley Park. Family said 21-year-old Jean Carlo Cobian was murdered— shot in the back of the head. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen has the story.

Vandals tried to topple a Chicago park’s statue of President William McKinley early Wednesday using a rope tethered to a car, police said.

A burglar has been targeting the homes of elderly residents in Bridgeport and McKinley Park recently by posing as a repairman, according to police.

Chicago police are alerting senior citizens on the city’s South Side to be on alert after a series of so-called “ruse burglaries” in the last month. According to a community alert released Sunday, at least three of the robberies have been reported in the city’s Bridgeport and McKinley Park neighborhoods since Oct. 21. In each of the incidents, unknown...

A woman was shot while inside a vehicle in McKinley Park Sunday morning. Chicago police said the incident took place just before 1 a.m. in the 3200 block of S. Hamilton Ave. Police said the woman, 23, was in the back seat of the car when a person began firing from a sidewalk. One of those shots hit the woman…