University Village

Two delivery drivers were carjacked over the weekend in University Village on the Near West Side. In each incident, two armed men approached a delivery driver, robbed the driver and demanded their vehicle, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The carjackings happened about 9:40 p.m. Saturday and 8:15 p.m. Sunday in the 1100 block of West Washburn Avenue,…

A man was wounded in a shooting Friday in University Village on the Near West Side. The 33-year-old was walking on the sidewalk at 3:34 a.m. in the 1000 block of West Maxwell Street when a male in a white T-shirt approached with a handgun and fired shots, according to Chicago police. The man was shot in the hip and…

A 16-year-old boy has been charged in three armed robberies on the Near North Side and in Lincoln Park and University Village. The boy, who has not been named because he is a minor, faces three felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm and a misdemeanor count of drug possession, Chicago police said. He allegedly flashed a gun and…

Nearly a dozen elementary school students were taken to hospitals Wednesday after pepper spray was discharged in a classroom. A student discharged the irritant about 2 p.m. in a third-floor classroom of Smyth Elementary, 1059 W. 13th St., according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. Ten students were taken in good condition to Stroger and the University of Illinois…

Police are investigating a pair of armed carjackings from Monday night in University Village. Each carjacking happened just minutes and blocks apart, each involving two males armed with guns and wearing black, but a police spokesperson couldn’t confirm Tuesday that they were related. In the first incident, a pair of males approached a woman at the trunk of her...

A recently-paroled man is accused of battering a 91-year-old woman and sexually assaulting her last week in University Village on the Near West Side.

A female University of Illinois at Chicago student who was found dead inside a car at a parking garage on Saturday after her family reported her missing, is believed to be a victim of foul play, authorities said Sunday.

A female student who was reported missing by her family was found dead in a vehicle Saturday at a University of Illinois at Chicago parking garage in University Village on the Near West Side.

A Chicago Fire Department investigation is still incomplete over a year after paramedics failed to treat a gunshot victim as he lay in the street dying, although the department says it has new rules to avoid the “tragic error” in the future.

Dorothy Brown, no longer on the ballot in the Chicago mayoral race, has thrown her support behind Amara Enyia. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the story. 

Longtime proven vote-getter Dorothy Brown passed the torch to Amara Enyia on Thursday, endorsing her in the race for Chicago mayor.

The father of a teen covered by paramedics with a sheet while he was still alive after being shot says he believes his son would have lived if got him to a hospital sooner.

A child who was shot in Chicago was left under a sheet at the scene, despite the fact he was still alive. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

The Chicago Fire Department is investigating what happened when a young Chicago shooting victim was mistakenly left on the ground and covered by a sheet while still alive by paramedics who believed he was dead.

Police are looking for a teenage boy who went missing Tuesday from the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side.

Protesters gathered on the Near West Side Tuesday evening after officials released the dash-cam video showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer last year.

A man driving a car was shot Friday evening while stopped at a stoplight in the University Village neighborhood on the city’s Near West Side.