Police shoot man in Auburn Gresham neighborhood

Chicago Police shot a man who they say pointed a gun at officers Monday night in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. The shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of West 76th Street. When police approached the man, he ran to the middle of the block, up a driveway and pulled a gun from his waistband according to Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Pat Camden. The man pointed the gun at officers and was shot in the elbow, he said.

Officials: Inmate escapee shouldn’t have been working at animal facility

A Cook County jail inmate who got away from Chicago’s Animal Care and Control facility had a violent history that should have disqualified him from that work detail, the sheriff’s office acknowledged Monday.

Cara Smith, chief of policy and communications for the sheriff’s office, said …

Man questioned after missing woman’s body found in Glen Ellyn

The body of Linda Valez, 33, was found in a forested area of Panfish Park on Saturday. There was evidence that Valez had been stabbed, though her official cause of death has not yet been determined, Glen Ellyn police said. No charges had been filed as of late Monday afternoon.

Guilty plea in 2011 rape of suburban student near Congress Theater

One of three teenagers charged with beating, raping and robbing an 18-year-old north suburban student outside a New Year’s Eve concert on the Northwest Side in 2011 pleaded guilty on Monday.

Cook Co.’s top prosecutor takes lead in trial of alleged cop killer

Four years ago, Chicago Police Officer Alejandro “Alex” Valadez became another “grim statistic,” Cook County’s top prosecutor told a jury Monday. Then Anita Alvarez pointed to Christopher Harris, 24, an alleged gunman seated quietly nearby wearing glasses and a dark cardigan sweater. “And this defendant?” Alvarez said. “Well, this defendant became a murderer.”

Man shaving while driving — 1 of dozens stopped on Kennedy

Illinois State Police troopers stopped a man for shaving while driving on the Kennedy Expy. during a sting on distracted drivers Monday morning, officials said. The man was issued a warning, but about 135 other motorists were ticketed for distracted driving between 7 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., officials said.

Sheriff Tom Dart: Prisons, jails are ‘the new insane asylums’

To highlight “what happens when we take mentally ill people and we cram them into the criminal justice system, where they’re not supposed to be,” Dart shared videos recorded by his staff inside the prison showing mentally ill inmates behaving erratically.

1 dead, 15 wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday

A man was killed and 15 people have been wounded across the city since Friday afternoon — including four people shot near a South Side elementary school along a Safe Passage route.

Body of missing Wheaton woman found in Glen Ellyn

The body of Linda Valez, 33, of Wheaton, was found in a forested area of a Glen Ellyn park, police said. The body showed “obvious” signs of trauma, according to a news release from Glen Ellyn Police.

Man impersonating FBI agent robs 3rd person on South Side

A man calling himself “Officer Franklin” and posing as a federal agent to rob people on the South Side struck again Saturday night — the third robbery in two weeks. The man was driving an SUV when he identified himself as a federal agent conducting a homicide investigation and ordered a 41-year-old man into his vehicle about 11 p.m. in the 7000 block of South Justine, Chicago Police said. He stole the man’s cash, told him to get out of the SUV and drove away.

Man attempts to abduct teenage girl in Austin: cops

The man, who was driving a black Nissan, honked his horn and called to a 14-year-old girl who was walking to a store at the corner of Madison and Central at 9:30 a.m. Friday, according to an alert from Area North detectives.

14 hurt in weekend shootings across Chicago

A shooting Saturday night in Albany Park was the latest in a string of shootings that have left 14 people hurt in weekend violence across the city of Chicago.

Safe Passage routes rife with sex offenders

A Sun-Times analysis found that 48 of 53 Safe Passage routes at schools that took in children from closed schools have sex offenders registered along them or within 1/8 mile — a full city block.

Gang summit fizzles, organizer says it’s ‘the beginning’

The theme of a national gang summit on the Far South Side — organized by a California pastor with Chicago roots — was “the village is here.” But the village wasn’t there Saturday at the sparsely attended National United Summit Review.

$900K bail for woman charged in West Side stabbing death

Bail was set Saturday at $900,000 for a woman charged with fatally stabbing another woman during what police called a domestic dispute Friday in Austin.