The Latest Breaking News from Uptown

Man charged with stealing car with baby inside in Uptown, then crashing into other cars

Pherris Harrington, 26, is charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated vehicular hijacking.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 15, 2022

In Uptown mural, artist Anthony Lewellen combines a love of nature and ‘concrete and light poles’

The six-story mural at 844 W. Montrose Ave. aims to show ‘an overlap between nature and the urban environment . . . these two things that I feel like I’m kind of always wrestling with.’

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 7, 2022

Taking the pulse of Argyle Street: From silent movies to voices rising over gentrification, representation, crime

Argyle Street, a pocket of Chicago’s Uptown community area, has long been known as a refuge for Asian immigrants, but residents worry it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to afford to live there.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 3, 2022

Woman dies in Uptown apartment fire

A woman in her early 60s was pronounced dead following a fire in the 1300 block of West Winnemac.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 25, 2022

3-year-old boy dies after falling from 18th floor of Uptown building, officials say

Chaise Binion landed on the third floor of a parking garage in the 4500 block of North Clarendon Avenue Tuesday evening, officials said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 20, 2022

No bail for man charged with murder after woman found dead in Uptown alley

The woman was found unresponsive Thursday morning and pronounced dead on the scene.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 9, 2022

COVID temporarily closed his River West tattoo parlor, so Louis Barak turned to murals

Growing up in Rogers Park and Uptown amid violence, drugs and gangs, creating art “was an escape . . . a place where I could make the world I wanted.” He wants to provide that outlet for kids.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 1, 2022

3-year-old girl in bike carrier dies when mom goes around ComEd truck parked in bike lane and is hit by passing semi

The semi was pulling away from a stop sign at Leland and Winthrop when it knocked the mother off balance and the girl was thrown under the wheels of the truck, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 9, 2022

State child welfare agency suspends 2 workers in death of 8-year-old girl

The employees of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services are suspended while it investigates their handling of the murder of Amaria Osby, who was killed last week in Uptown, allegedly by her mother.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 1, 2022

Mother accused of killing 8-year-old daughter in Uptown home because she believed girl ‘didn’t love her anymore.’

Amaria Osby screamed, ‘Momma stop,” as Andreal Hagler placed a plastic bag over her head and held her down on a bed, prosecutors say.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 27, 2022