Month: February 2014

Listen up and take notes. This is how you reduce burglary stats, people. The gated entrance to tiny California Terrace in Boystown. Around 6 o’clock last night, a resident in the 700 block of California Terrace—that’s the tiny street that sits behind an iron gate on Halsted, south of the Briar Street Theater—returned home to

Monday, February 24 9:14PM A resident of the 1500 block of Grace told police that he was robbed at gunpoint of $1,500 by a man he identified by first and last name. He also gave officers the offender’s exact address in Back-of-the-Yards and stated that the gunman gets around town exclusively on foot and CTA

Chicago Spectrum has updated their informative map of crimes reported in Wrigleyville and Boystown this year. Their maps—which plot robbery, burglary, theft, assault, battery, and narcotics cases—let you zoom down to street level and click on incidents to learn more about each incident. ——————— CWB is now on Facebook. Come “Like” us.

A teenage boy was beaten up and robbed in the east alley behind the 3400 block of N. Janssen at 4:30 this evening, a witness says, but the boy left the scene before police arrived and no report has been taken. The victim, whose cell phone was taken in the attack, borrowed a passing woman’s

Police finally caught up with a man who is suspected in a series of physical attacks on customers at the Walmart Neighborhood Market, 2844 N. Broadway. And the guy got a face full of pepper spray to help him remember the occasion. A sharp-eyed Walmart employee dialed 911 around 3:30 Monday after she saw the

Thrown under the bus. It’s the Chicago way. Hey, dispatcher. How ’bout checking the axles while you’re under that bus? The city very quickly found the fall guy for that 20+ minute response time to a robbery near Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house Saturday afternoon. As CWB reported yesterday, the response was delayed largely due to

A suburban man whose decades-long list of legal problems includes multiple aggravated DUI charges has been arrested for allegedly raping a housekeeper at a hotel near Clark and Diversey Saturday. Dennis Sluski Jr was arrested at the Forever Yogurt, 2727 N. Clark, just south of Diversey a couple of hours after yesterday’s attack in the

A man gave a stranger $600 for a TV on Clark Street just south of Diversey Saturday afternoon, then watched the stranger drive away with his cash, never to be seen again.  The case is classified as fraud in CPD case HX160594. Image: Hoax Slayer Yesterday’s incident near the Best Buy store at Clark and

24 hours a day, even when no one’s home, two of our 19th district police cars sit outside  ofMayor Rahm Emanuel’s home. They cannot leave, even when a woman has just been robbed 3 blocks away.Here, the cars are seen on Google’s satellite image of the mayoral compound. The 19th district ran out of police

Two display windows were intentionally shattered at a popular Boystown costume shop and 19th district officers racked up at least five arrests in two hours along the Wrigleyville bar strip overnight. Manequins peer out from behind a shattered window at Beatnixthis morning. Image: CWB reader “R” Halsted Damage At 1:45AM, two men were reportedly breaking