Month: December 2013

Here’s a swift kick in the huevos. As our neighborhood’s annual robbery rate hits a record high for the third year in a row. After the district runs out of cops at least 31 times in the past 5 months. On the heels of the protestations and demands for proper police protection. The 19th district’s

Just in time for the new year, CWB has established a Facebook page. We heard that this “social media” thing may take off and we wanted to get in on the ground floor. The FB page will make it easier for you to catch the newest CWB posts and share important stories with your connections.

This wasn’t easy.  Of all of the half-truths, quarter-truths, and full-blown lies that have been spewed by various parties regarding the neighborhood’s escalating street crime problem, which were the biggest whoppers?  After sifting through them all, we’ve decided that these five lies shall be honored with CWB’s very first Golden Pinocchio awards for the most

A man is being treated at Illinois Masonic Medical Center after he sustained serious injuries in an attack outside of the Treasure Island grocery store, 3460 N. Broadway, at 3:05 this afternoon. The offender, described as male, black, 23-24 years old, 5’9″ tall, and very thin, was last seen running westbound on Cornelia toward Halsted

Two women who robbed a couple of ladies on Melrose Avenue in Boystown on Monday appear to have struck again in Lincoln Park. Around 3:30 Saturday morning, a silver car with two female occupants pulled up to a man at Clark and Wrightwood. Both women were black, in their 20’s, about 5’7″ tall. One of

10:20PM Saturday, December 28 Officers have rounded up a large group of shoplifters who stormed out of the Circle K convenience store at Halsted and Addison with gobs of merchandise. The store clerk reported that 10 to 15 black men and black women, most wearing fatigue-style pants, fled on foot. At least five of the

A robbery offender who targeted a woman in Lakeview Friday evening and then escaped in a stolen taxi cab is in custody. Area North detectives are working to determine if the robber is part of a crew that has been targeting women in southern areas of Lakeview and nearby Lincoln Park. The latest developments began to

Now here’s a twist. A Lakeview woman called police at 10:15 this morning after a stranger walked up and smacked her in the head with a hammer. When it was all said and done, the victim wound up with the attacker’s cell phone! There has been no arrest and the incident does not appear to

There are currently 8 police officers protecting the southwest corner of Water Tower Place. That’s about half of the manpower on the streets of our entire district Sunday morning. 

As CWB has reported recently, there has been an outbreak of robberies in the area generally south of Belmont, east of Sheffield, and south in to nearby Lincoln Park. It appears that the bulk of these incidents appear to be the work of two crews, one of which has most recently targeted women during the

The Center On Halsted gave the neighborhood a little stocking stuffer this week. According to several readers, three  signs declaring the Waveland Avenue side of the community center to be a “NO-LOITERING and a NO-SMOKING zone” went up in the past few days. The signs indicate that the new policy is “an effort to promote

The rolling crime spree named Rockie Douglas was arrested at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Milwaukee this morning, according to media reports. Douglas became the subject of a federal manhunt after he allegedly collided with another vehicle during a police pursuit, killing an 11-year-old boy on Chicago’s South Side on Saturday. The vehicle Douglas crashed in

Forget that junk about cold weather being a deterrent against crime. At least three robberies have been reported in the neighborhood since yesterday afternoon. Disturbingly, yet another woman was jumped and robbed by two offenders who fled the scene in a light-colored vehicle yesterday evening. The details of the attack closely resemble a series of