Month: January 2014

Even in the depths of winter, the Center on Halsted can be relied upon to keep our police officers occupied. At least five people have been arrested at the pride of Halsted Street since last Thursday. Two men in their teens or early 20’s were arrested for battery after getting into a physical altercation with

EDITORS’ NOTE, FEBRUARY 1, 2014: Below we joke that maybe someone would put out a press release to brag about the lower crime rate experienced during our 33-inch thick snow-covered, sub-zero temperature-filled January. We should’ve known that the CPD actually WOULD brag about lower January crime. ———————- Thank you, Polar Vortex (and son of Polar

Remember our story about crime-related questions being routinely deleted from Alderman Tom Tunney’s Facebook page rather than answered? A resident posted this question, asking Tunney if our storyabout deleted comments is true. He deleted it. DNAInfo.com runs THIS story today with Tunney’s implausible response and reactions from residents. Yesterday, the alderman issued an “explanation.” The person

Moments after the South East Lake View Neighbors community group voted not to support a zoning variance that would allow the Broadway Youth Center to operate on a residential street, 44th ward Alderman Tom Tunney took to the stage. In comments that could be classified as off-the-cuff at best, Tunney tossed out an interesting promise.

The crew at Chicago Spectrum has mapped out Wrigleyville and Boystown assaults from January 2013 to date. You can zoom in and click for more details on each incident. Check it out HERE.

He’s the man without a plan. Wrigleyville and Boystown Alderman Tom Tunney’s strategy for handling our violent street crime problem in 2014 appears to be the same as his strategy for 2013: Pretend there is no violent street crime problem. While the alderman is able to whip up Facebook responses for constituents who ask why

7:53 p.m. — Security at The Center On Halsted detains two men for battery. Both are arrested by responding officers.  Case number is TBD. 8:54 p.m. — A man loses his phone to a thief near the CTA bus turn-around at Halsted and Belmont. The offender is followed for several blocks, but is lost in the

Arctic January nights have helped keep a lid on things in the “Entertainment” District. It seems that the drunken brawlers got a little cabin fever and ventured out Saturday night.  Here’s a taste of what will be tying up our severely-limited police resources in the warmer weeks ahead: 2:09AM—Fight outside of Roscoe’s Tavern, 3356 N.

We don’t usually dip into burglaries at CWB. Our focus has been and will always be on our neighborhoods’ growing violent street crime problem. However, we wanted to let you know that this popular scheme has found its way to our neighborhood: Multiple residents reported a suspicious man going door-to-door in Wrigleyville between 5:00 and