Month: July 2013

EDITORS’ NOTE: The 19th District Events Calendar for August was updated this afternoon. There is still no listing for the beat 1923/1925/1935 meeting. The 1924/1933 meeting is listed as shown in our original post below. EDITORS’ NOTE PART DEUX: Alllllrighty. They’ve now added the 1923/1925/1935 meeting to the official calendar. It is listed as shown

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

Try as they might, Alderman Tom Tunney’s office staff can’t seem to stay on top of the negative comments about crime that people are posting to the alderman’s Facebook page. We absolutely believe that the alderman has every right to delete posts and comments from his Facebook page whenever he wants. It’s his page. We

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 Story A nurse at Weiss Hospital in Uptown reported that a