CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two people were shot, one critically, on the West Side Monday night, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 10:40 p.m. in the 10-100-block of North Western Avenue. Police said two men, ages 24 and 49, were standing outside when a suspect shot at them from a vehicle driving by.

Five fatal shootings happened over a three-hour span from Friday into Saturday. A woman was also charged with murder after allegedly drowning her 1-year-old son.

Keith McAllister, 61, was "tragically killed" on July 16 when he went to visit a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) medical facility in Westbury, New York, according to the Nassau County Police Department and a GoFundMe started by the man's family.

Two people were shot outside a suburban nightclub in North Chicago early Monday morning, police said. This happened at Frank's Lounge on Green Bay Road. North Chicago police said they responded to the scene about 12:50 a.

A 22-year-old man is facing attempted first-degree murder charges in connection with the shooting of a 31-year-old victim.

Chicago is seeing a historic drop in violent crime in the first half of the year. According to the Chicago Police Department, homicides and shootings are both down more than 30% in the first six months of the year compared to 2024.

Allen Hall hunched at a picnic table outside the University of Chicago Medical Center last week under the beating sun, his head in his hands. A few days before, Hall’s 24-year-old daughter, Arneka McReynolds,