The Veraza family heard fireworks, flash bangs and blaring horns. Then a crying baby.
The Verazas had been headed to pick up diapers and eggs and milk when they encountered immigration agents.
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Victims recovering from late-summer mass shooting in Washington Park as police look for answers
15 shot in Washington Park in what ultimately became the largest mass shooting Chicago has seen this year.
Mass shooting in Washington Park leaves 1 dead, 14 injured in Chicago’s largest shooting this year
A mass shooting in Washington Park Saturday night became the city’s largest of the year when Chicago police reported that a total of 15 people had been shot.
Indicted ex-Loretto Hospital exec to remain behind bars on fraud charges after return to US
After two years overseas, living at large in Dubai and then detained in a Serbian jail, former Loretto Hospital executive Anosh Ahmed is back in custody in Chicago to face...
Immigration judges in Chicago deporting abused, neglected children in violation of their due process: attorneys
An immigration judge entered removal proceedings against some of the children, despite their attempts to seek a long-held legal protection to remain in safety in the United States due to...
Crowd in McKinley Park protests ICE after agents crash into truck and detain driver on I-55 ramp
Protesters gathered in the McKinley Park neighborhood after immigration agents Monday crashed into a pickup truck near the Damen Avenue exit on I-55 and detained a driver.
Stripped cop from notorious downtown tactical team charged with domestic battery
A Chicago police officer with several misconduct complaints was arrested Friday for domestic-violence, according to police sources and court records.
Cops who used tongue depressors to search man should be stripped of police powers, COPA says
Regulators have recommended that two officers be stripped of their powers after finding that they tried to pry open a man's mouth with tongue depressors, records show.
3 arrested at Wrigley Field during City Series, but none related to viral brawl in bleachers, sources say
Just after the Cubs beat the White Sox in Monday night's City Series opener, Chicago police were called to Wrigley Field and found paramedics attending to a man with a...
Years before corpses found at South Side funeral home, owners left decomposing bodies in van: police
An Evergreen Park police officer was immediately suspicious when he found a running Chrysler minivan with two clearly decomposing corpses inside.