Month: June 2013

Medical personnel are in great demand at today’s  44th Annual Gay Pride Parade. As of 3:15pm, there is a full page of calls for medical attention that are awaiting responses. Even relatively serious calls are not being promptly answered. A woman who suffered a seizure outside of Jersey Mike’s on Broadway near Belmont waited nearly

Police managed to keep a lid on things until around 2am, largely because someone decided to keep four cops posted at the corner of Belmont and Sheffield. Don’t get used to intelligent decisions like that. Once they were gone, though, things returned to normal. 2:21AM: Roscoe’s security detained a person for trying to pass counterfeit

Saturday, June 29, 2013 12:28AM: A citizen walking with crutches near Clark and Newport was beaten by “a bunch of gangbangers,” led by a heavy set, balding Hispanic man in his early 30’s. The victim insisted on filing a police report for the damage to his crutches. Wrigleyville’s Clark Street corridor degenerated into a mass

11:39PM: Five customers were injured by glass thrown during an altercation at Roscoe’s Tavern, 3356 N. Halsted. Four victims were treated at Thorek Hospital and one was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, all in good condition. Police officers arrested a woman for aggravated battery with a dangerous weapon after multiple witnesses positively identified her

Morgan Townsend (left) and Deondre Williams (right). Image:DNAinfo.com DNAinfo reports that two men are being held on $350,000 bond in connection with Sunday morning’s wilding near the Belmont L station, 945 W. Belmont. Morgan Townsend, 22, and Deondre Williams, 18, face charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, robbery, and mob action in the attacks, according to DNAinfo.

UPDATED: Exclusive CWB photos of the damage are posted here. Wrigleyville’s Stanley Cup Championship street party in honor of the Chicago Blackhawks was gradually pushed down Clark Street by Chicago Police early this morning. The pushing kept going all the way to Diversey Boulevard, a full mile south of Wrigley Field. A bit after 1:00AM,  a

Officers have called for squadrols, the trucks that transport arrestees, to converge on Clark Street. Bottles have been thrown and Clark Street has been described by a dispatcher as “blowing up.” CWB will post updates prudently.

This morning, Crime in Wrigleyville and Boystown has developed exclusive and gut wrenching details of Sunday morning’s mob attack and double stabbing near the Belmont Red Line station, 945 W. Belmont. CWB has learned that the stabbings and beatings could have been prevented if police officers had promptly responded to the future victims’ 911 call

Editors’ Note: Please see our exclusive report regarding the circumstances surrounding this incident and how a lack of police manpower may have led to these two young men being beaten and stabbed in a mob attack. NBC Chicago is reporting that two men were stabbed during a wilding incident near the Belmont Redline, 945 W.