West Side

A 20-year-old woman was shot in the head while driving in Chicago’s Fifth City neighborhood Friday night, according to authorities.

An 18-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Chicago father as he drove his daughter to school on the city’s West Side.

A SWAT team responded after two people were shot Friday morning in Austin on the West Side.

Warning signs are going to be put up on Chicago’s West Side after repeated reports of truck crashes under the CTA train. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

Chicago police asked for public help in finding the person or people who shot and killed a 7-year-old girl and injured her 6-year-old sister Sunday afternoon in the city’s Belmont Central neighborhood.

A girl has died and another is injured after a shooting Sunday afternoon in Chicago’s Belmont Central neighborhood, police say.

Family members are grieving after a one-year-old was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Chicago’s West Side. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

A 45-year-old man was arrested in connection with a shooting that injured two Chicago police officers early Sunday morning in the city’s Lawndale neighborhood, authorities announced Monday.

Two Chicago police officers were shot Sunday morning in the city’s Lawndale neighborhood, according to authorities.

A 15-year-old boy is accused of shooting a ride-hailing driver in February on the West Side. The teen, who wasn’t named because he’s charged as a minor, faces an attempted murder charge in the Feb. 21 incident, Chicago police said. The driver was sitting in his parked car in the 3900 block of West Jackson Boulevard at 11:25 p.m. when…

The Chicago police bomb squad was on the scene of live grenade Tuesday morning in Austin on the West Side.

A man was killed and two other people, including a 10-year-old boy, were wounded in a shooting Friday in East Garfield Park on the West Side.

The lowest air quality in Chicago is located on the South and West Sides of the city, according to officials. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

A person was shot Friday morning during an exchange of gunfire with police in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on the West Side, according to police.

The Chicago Police Department is warning residents after a series of strong arm robberies in the West Town neighborhood. In a community alert issued Saturday, police say one or two masked male offenders engage a lone female in conversation, then forcefully take her purse and throw her to the ground. In one instance, a victim was struck twice in the…

A 70-year-old woman was wounded by stray gunfire that entered a home Wednesday evening in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

A woman stabbed an employee more than two dozen times while another woman held him by the hair after they were told to wear a mask inside a West Side store, according to police. Jessica Hill, 21, and Jayla Hill, 18, each face a count of attempted murder in the Sunday attack that left the worker in critical condition, Chicago…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a $330 million lending commitment from several local banks into the Community Investment Corporation to provide affordable housing on the South and West Sides on Thursday. The $330 million in lending investment funds is being provided by 40 area banks and will be used to rehab 7,000 units of affordable rental housing across 400 buildings…

Three people, including a 61-year-old man, were wounded in a shooting Sunday in Fifth City on the West Side. He and two women, 30 and 56, were on the sidewalk about 9:17 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Van Buren Street when someone in a dark-colored sedan fired shots, Chicago police said. The 30-year-old woman was grazed in the…

A 33-year-old man has been charged in connection with a shooting of a Chicago police officer Monday in Austin on the West Side.