Michael Pfleger

NOW NBC 5 INVESTIGATES:
FATHER MICHAEL PFLEGER SAYS THE GUN VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO IS THE WORST HE’S EVER SEEN.
PFLEGER WITNESSED THE AFTERMATH LAST NIGHT.
TONIGHT: HE SAYS THINGS MUST CHANGE.
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Two years ago, St. Sabinia pastor Michael Pfleger was so appalled at gun violence in Chicago that he led a march that shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway. “And we don’t see any change in these neighborhoods now — nothing,” Pfleger told NBC 5. “I can’t see one thing in this neighborhood that’s been done that gives me hope.”...

The Saint Sabina faith community gathered in a march Sunday to protest recent Chicago and nation-wide violence. Especially with a warm holiday weekend approaching, many expressed concern for a uptick in violence and a demand to find a solution. “We call people to draw the line and say, ‘we got this,’” Pastor at St. Sabina Rev. Michael Pfleger said. “We…

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A MAJOR MARCH AND RALLY CALLING FOR AN END TO GUN VIOLENCE THIS LONG HOLIDAY WEEKEND....

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HUNDREDS TURNED OUT AT SAINT SABINA CHURCH, AS POLICE REVEALED THEIR PLANS TO STOP THE...
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The father of a 9-year-old murder victim has been convicted of gun charges less than a week after two Chicago men were convicted in his son’s death. A Cook County judge on Wednesday found Tyshawn Lee’s father, Pierre Stokes, guilty of gun possession and aggravated battery. The charges stemmed from a 2014 argument in which witnesses said Stokes flashed a...

 A second guilty verdict was handed down on Friday in the 2015 killing of a 9-year-old in Chicago. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A jury on Friday announced a guilty verdict for the man accused of planning the brutal murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, who was lured into a Chicago alley and shot execution-style amid what authorities believe was a gang war.

Nearly two weeks after it began, the trials for two men accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old Chicago boy point-blank in what prosecutors alleged stemmed from a gang war will soon be left to a jury.

Opening statements began Tuesday in the murder trial for two men accused of killing 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee execution-style in Chicago in what prosecutors allege all began over a gang war.

The murder trial begins Tuesday for two men charged with the killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, whose shooting death shook Chicago to its core four years earlier. Tyshawn was a fourth-grader who was playing basketball in November 2015 when prosecutors say he was lured away from the playground with the promise of a juice box, only to be shot at...

In the second day of the murder trial for two men accused of shooting a 9-year-old boy point-blank in a Chicago alley in 2015, family of the young boy and multiple law enforcement officers took the stand.

It stands as one of Chicago’s most horrific crimes, in large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and killed there.

Parishioners at Holy Angels Church in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood are stunned after former Pastor George Clements were publicized on Thursday.

While Chicago police are working to enact their plans to help prevent summertime violence in the city, Father Michael Pfleger and his church have a plan of their own.

Chicago police say they have a plan to combat summer gun violence. Now, one neighborhood says it has a plan of its own, one that involves coming together as a community. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich has condemned what he called anti-Semitic statements made by Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan at a Roman Catholic church on the city’s south side.

Free speech or hate speech?

Demonstrators supporting the Fraternal Order of Police crowded together Monday holding signs, wearing buttons and calling for Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to step down.