Month: January 2014

One of the two men who was pounced by the same group of offenders yesterday afternoon has posted his story online. What’s it like to fall victim to 6 street robbers on your way to the grocery store on a wintery holiday afternoon? It can be like THIS. ——————— CWB is now on Facebook. Come

Meet the new year, same as the old year. 2014 is off to a rough start as two afternoon daylight beatings and robberies kick off the New Year. Good police work has resulted in the arrests of three offenders. Just after 3PM today, a man was approached near Sheridan and Pine Grove by a group

UPDATE 3:29PM: Offenders are believed to be in custody. Full report coming on CWB. ———————– BREAKING: 2 robberies in the past 20 minutes on the north end of the neighborhood. Both victims were approached on the street by a group of approximately 6 offenders, believed to be black males in their early 20s.  One female

Chicago’s 19th police district, which includes the Wrigleyville and Boystown neighborhoods, is severely undermanned. Since March of 2012, the 19th district’s manpower strength has dropped about 27% (March 2013 data). Some of the decline has been caused by the department’s failure to replace officers who’ve left the department or transferred to other districts. Others have been reassigned by

A lawyer could go on for hours about the differences, but here are the basic definitions of crimes that you will read about most often on CWB. Again, this is big picture stuff, not an exhaustive definition of each category. Robbery — Considered the third most-serious crime behind murder and rape, Wrigelyville and Boystown set