Month: September 2013

Note: Today’s ticker corrects an error in 2008’s statistics. The CWB Daily Ticker is a dashboard of the most up-to-date robbery statistics possible for our neighborhood over the past year, 5 years, and 10 years. As we’ve often said, our problem did not spring up overnight. It has built and built over several years. Simply

Some calls that caught our attention this weekend: Friday 8:47PM: As a big high school football game plays out at Lane Tech, the following call is dispatched: “Behind the chicken place [across from] Lane, there’s a bunch of high school kids in a dark colored car getting high. One of them is dressed in a

If it’s Saturday night/Sunday morning, that means the 19th district will run out of officers. The district entered RAP (Radio Assignment Pending) status for the 8th consecutive Sunday at 12:54 this morning. It is not clear when the RAP was lifted. As an example of how RAPS affect your police responses, we’d offer this: A

A concerned citizen called 911 on behalf of a man who was reportedly robbed of his wallet at the corner of Clark and Buckingham around 6:10 this morning. Upon arrival, officers learned that the victim, dressed in a leather jacket and yellow silk shirt, only spoke Burmese. The offender, a male, white, reportedly spoke German.

The CWB Daily Ticker is a dashboard of the most up-to-date robbery statistics possible for our neighborhood over the past year, 5 years, and 10 years. As we’ve often said, our problem did not spring up overnight. It has built and built over several years. Simply comparing this year to last year misses the huge

UPDATE: Three suspected offenders have been detained by officers in connection with the School Street attack. Two or three more may remain at large. Full report in the morning on CWB. A group of three teens are suspected in one robbery and a separate beating incident within the past half hour. Developing. Descriptions of trio:

A resident in a nearby section of Lake View woke to a frightening sight around 8AM today: A complete stranger wearing a dark hoodie in his bedroom. Once he got his bearings, the man realized that he had just been burglarized. Taken from the apartment in the 1500 block of West Irving Park Road were

For the second time in a week, a victim has been robbed at gunpoint in Boystown. Three hoodlums robbed a man at gunpoint near Broadway and Buckingham around 2:15 this morning. The victim, who lives in a nearby high rise, told officers that one of the offenders displayed a handgun and he was relieved of

The city released the details of the following five robberies today. Case: HW451204 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 3:34AM Block: 1200 W ROSCOE ST Description: ROBBERY ARMED: HANDGUN Location: SIDEWALK Case: HW451193 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 3:15AM Block: 3300 N SEMINARY AVE Description: ROBBERY ARMED: HANDGUN Location: SIDEWALK Case: HW451101 Date: Sat, 14 Sep

NOTE: Full stories are now online. Updating now.  Info on the way. 6:21AM