Month: November 2013

As 19th district police handled a couple of routine calls at Halsted and Cornelia this morning, a blue Chevy rolled up and an occupant told the officers that he had been shot. The dramatic turn of events took place at 4:05 this morning near Halsted and Cornelia, where officers were working on a call of

If you haven’t read up on the rash of wheel thefts, check out our post from earlier this week. From our inbox this afternoon: Just saw this today, on Stockton drive, first one just south of the zoo, the next one 2 blocks north of fullerton.  Images: CWB Reader “T”

From a reader email: RE: laundry rooms. Do I recall correctly that the Belmont rapist a couple weeks back was seen in the building laundry room before he attacked? These break-ins have me wondering if he was there to do a laundry room theft then saw an opportunity to attack the victim? Just a hunch

CWB has obtained a photo of a female bank robber in action inside Boystown’s Jewel-Osco store this afternoon. The woman who held up the TCF bank near Broadway and Addison robbed the same location in May, according to the FBI tonight. The agency says the suspect also robbed a TCF bank inside an Edgewater Jewel-Osco

UPDATE 10:00PM: CWB has obtained this first image of today’s bank robbery in progress. The FBI tonight says today’s offender struck the same bank in April. Our original report from this afternoon follows. ————– A solo bank robber made off with $500 in an afternoon heist at the TCF bank branch inside Boystown’s Jewel-Osco store,

UPDATE: A full story and updated description is now online HERE. TCF bank inside Jewel at Addison and Broadway was robbed 10 minutes ago. Details developing. Cops looking for the perp: female, black,  40, 5’6″, large build, tan hat, tan coat, black sunglasses Same bank was robbed on May 21. Full report as details come in…

Wondering what a laundry room break-in looks like? Here you go. We received this pic and info from D.O. today: Another laundry room break-in last night on the 900 block of Waveland. Two washers and two dryers had their coin mechanisms pried out to get to the coins inside. I’ve attached a photo.

We burned an hour of the boss’ time flipping through mugshots on the Redeye site yesterday. Along the way, we found several individuals who appear to have been arrested for shenanigans that CWB reported over the past few weeks. We thought you may enjoy these updates: Anthony Muniz First up, here’s Anthony Muniz of the

Heads up if you or someone you know owns a Honda Civic or Honda Fit. A Lakeview resident reported on Reddit Monday night that they’ve seen three of these cars in “the past few weeks propped up on milk crates with all 4 wheels gone in the lakeview/ roscoe village area. I’ve also seen 2

An alleged cell phone thief who was caught only after he refused to pay a cab driver–and the cab driver took him on an additional ride to the 19th district police station–is identified today. CWB reported the story first last night and the Chicago Tribune has greater detail this afternoon.. Alejandro Galeana, 27, of Edgewater