Month: October 2013

Doormen at Spin nightclub at Halsted and Belmont probably couldn’t believe their eyes around 11PM Wednesday night, after a man walked up, busted out one of their windows, and then strolled across the street to the Lucky Horseshoe Lounge. An officer on patrol was flagged down by a Spin employee. He and another unit went

An area resident has posted surveillance photos on Reddit that he says show a package thief striking his building on Tuesday afternoon. The Reddit poster has not been more specific about where his building is located, other than to say “definitely East Lakeview.” He describes the alleged thief as being male, black, “young,” between 5’10” and 6’2″

Stolen from the 700 block of Barry (bottom pin) on Sundaymorning, the vehicle was found tonight under the L tracksbehind the 4000 block of Kenmore (top pin). Officers have located a car that was stolen from the 700 block of Barry on Sunday morning. A suburban woman had left her vehicle’s keys in the car, which

Hey! What’s that guy doing in my car at 5:30 on a Wednesday morning? This morning, the answer to that question for a resident who lives at Belmont and Sheffield was “stealing your money and iPad.” Police were at the victim’s address within 20 seconds of his call, but they could find no trace of

Police were called to the Jewel-Osco on Broadway near Addison at 8:30 Tuesday night after witnesses reported that “a bunch of gangbangers” battered a man and chased him into the store. The “gangbangers” were said to be waiting outside for their victim to come back out. When police arrived, the offenders were gone, but the

Regular CWB readers know that the 19th district is dangerously understaffed. The district police commander has said that the district has lost 15% of its manpower since March 2012. We believe the actual number of officers lost is significantly greater than that. Running low or completely out of police officers is not only bad for

A delivery driver had her iPhone stolen at Belmont and Halsted at 2:30 this afternoon. After taking the woman’s phone, the offender fled northbound on Dayton Street, the alley-like street that runs north from Belmont between Halsted and Clark. The entrance to Dayton Street at Belmont Avenue. Image: Here.com The thief is described as male,

It’s not nearly as ridiculous as Saturday morning’s Looney Tunes-inspired break-in, but Pie Hole Pizza Joint has now posted video of their delivery bike being stolen in April of this year. The really interesting part comes around 3-1/2 minutes into the video.  It appears that this guy drives around with a torch in his back

Soooo close. For nearly 105 minutes, the 19th district had no requests for police service overnight. That changed at 3:10AM when a unit was dispatched to meet a robbery victim in the emergency room at St. Joseph’s Hospital. According to the caller, the victim was robbed at knifepoint as he took money from an ATM

We’re sticklers. It was hard to miss yesterday’s flood of media reporting on the break-in at Boystown’s Pie Hole Pizza Joint on Saturday morning. (Hey, didn’t some blog have that story two days earlier?) One thing we heard and read in many of the reports is like fingernails on a blackboard to us. Several news