Portage Park

Chicago police fatally shot a person in the city’s Portage Park neighborhood early Wednesday, authorities said.

Chicago police fatally shot a person in the city’s Portage Park neighborhood early Wednesday, authorities said.

Police fatally shot a person in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood early Monday, according to a police spokesman. Sandra Torres reports.

Four people were injured in a shooting and subsequent crash Monday near the Six Corners intersection in Portage Park on Chicago’s Northwest Side.

A man was hospitalized after crashing his car into a building early Sunday in Portage Park on the Northwest Side. About 1:20 a.m. the man was driving eastbound in the 5900 block of West Irving Park Road when he clipped a Jeep while attempting to change lanes at a high speed, Chicago police said. The man lost control of his…

The driver of an SUV suffered serious injuries after the vehicle crashed into a home on Chicago’s Northwest Side on Sunday morning. According to Chicago police, the man was driving a vehicle just before 3 a.m. in the 4400 block of North Austin Avenue when he went off the road and crashed into a home. The SUV crashed into the…

Seven parked cars were struck Tuesday in a hit-and-run in Portage Park on the Northwest Side.

Three people were arrested after a break-in Saturday at a car dealership in Portage Park on the Northwest Side. The trio broke a side window of the dealership at 2:13 a.m. in the 5100 block of West Irving Park Road, according to Chicago police. Once inside, the male suspects rummaged through several offices before running away. Marino Chrysler Jeep Dodge,…

A Portage Park man was arrested Wednesday and charged with violating his sex offender registration after attempting to solicit an underage former “America’s Got Talent” contestant on social media.

Police are questioning the validity of a report that two men were kidnapped Thursday in Portage Park by a group of people pretending to be police officers and driven nearly 20 miles across town. “In their preliminary investigation to corroborate information, Detectives have serious concerns about legitimacy of what was reported to police,” Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Friday…

Two men were kidnapped by a group of people pretending to be police officers Thursday and driven from Chicago’s Northwest Side to the South Side. Sandra Torres reports.

An Elmwood Park man is accused of ambushing a fellow chef in the kitchen of a Portage Park restaurant Sunday, fatally stabbing him for several minutes as he fended off coworkers trying to stop him, prosecutors say. Jesus Martinez, 37, is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 35-year-old Cory Neill, who both worked as chefs at the…

A 20-year-old Portage Park man is facing several charges after authorities allegedly found a stash of drugs in his vehicle during a February traffic stop in South Elgin. Michael A. Venegas is charged with four felony counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and two misdemeanor counts of unlawful possession of cannabis, according to the Kane County state’s...

A man is facing a series of felony weapon and drug charges after a nearly seven-hour standoff with police last week in Portage Park on the Northwest Side.

A barricade situation in Portage Park Friday has been resolved after a nearly seven-hour standoff with police.

Two 18-year-old men and a minor have been charged with stealing a car at a Northwest Side gas station and driving off with two children left in the back seat. Tramaine Watson, Dimari Terry and a 16-year-old boy allegedly forced their way into a parked car Oct. 18 in the 5900 block of West Montrose Avenue, according to Chicago police.

Two children who were inside a vehicle stolen in Jefferson Park were found uninjured on the Northwest Side.

A Chicago mother stepped in and helped rescue two children who were victims of a horrifying carjacking on Friday night in Jefferson Park. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports.

Chicago will get its first new Culver’s in over a decade next week, but it will reportedly take less than a week for a second location to open its doors.