Month: July 2013

The canopy over Sluggers bar, 3540 N. Clark Street, reads “World Class Sports Bar.” This morning, they forgot the class part. It all started around 12:10AM when Sluggers security kicked out four male, Hispanics in their 30’s for using drugs in the bar’s bathroom. Police were called after the men stood outside and threatened to

The wild rumors sweeping Clark Street are true. We’ve set up a Twitter account. @CWBChicagoWe’ll use Twitter to issue breaking alerts as well as links to our top story of the day. *** The Inside-Booster, News-Star, and Skyline community papers have been reporting neighborhood news on the North Side for over 100 years. Their weekly

Editors’ Note: CBS2 interviews the victim tonight. NBC5 Chicago carries a report, too. CWB’s original report follows below. Social media and tenacious Chicago cops who refused to give up on seemingly questionable 911 calls are credited with rescuing a woman who was sexually assaulted in an apartment near Clark and Diversey this morning. Police took

A Lake View resident was robbed at gunpoint at the BP gas station on Belmont at Racine, a quarter-mile west of Sheffield around 4 o’clock this morning. The victim told police that two men, black, in their 20’s, wearing all dark clothing, got out of a black Chevy, held a gun to his head and

Jimmy Kimmel featured Alderman Tom Tunney’s mind-boggling “Up The Butt” speech in a short comedy bit last night. You can see Tunney’s debut on the national stage 4 minutes into last night’s JKL episode on ABC.com [No longer online — ed.] An Unlikely, Yet True StoryA nurse at Weiss Hospital in Uptown reported that a 24 year

Out of the 274 police beats in Chicago, Wrigleyville and Boystown’s beat 1924 ranks #10 in overall violent crime reported in the past 90 days according to the Chicago Police Department’s CLEAR Map web site. Violent crimes are the most serious classification of crime, comprised of homicides, criminal sexual assaults, robberies, aggravated assaults, and aggravated

An entrance door to the Starbucks at Clark and Belmont is boarded up this morning. Image: CWB reader email. Belmont Brawlers Witnesses reported a fight involving 10 people inside the Belmont Red Line station at 4:20 this morning. A citizen told arriving officers that the parties involved had gone their separate ways. About an hour

Friday, July 26, 20139:50PM: Rockit Burger Bar, 3700 N. Clark, called for help after a customer threw a glass across the restaurant “almost hitting people.” The glass hurler, described as a male, white, bald, wearing a blue plaid shirt, was last seen walking southbound on Clark Street. Saturday, July 27, 20131:52AM: Officers handled two battery