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Deanese Williams-Harris is a senior deputy content editor on the emerging news desk. A 21-year survivor of multiple sclerosis, her greatest accomplishment is raising two sons as a single mother on Chicago's South Side.
A ride-share driver was wounded during an attempt carjacking on the West Side, and another man was hit in the head with a gun in a separate carjacking farther north overnight, Chicago police said..
Four to five robbers smashed the front door of businesses with a brick or rock to enter stores and make off with items and cash from registers, police said.
Wednesday morning a man was found dead with a self-inflicted wound at a nearby park from the scene of a fatal shooting in west suburban Cicero, officials said.
Shortly before 7:45 p.m., police responded to the 1800 block of south 48th Court in Cicero and found two women, 19 and 29, wounded by gunfire, according to Ray Hanania, a spokesman for Cicero.
A 52-year-old woman who confronted thieves through her apartment window as they tried to steal her vehicle was shot by one of the men Friday morning, police said.