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Month: February 2014

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ABRACADABRA: Burglary Attempt Disappears From Statistics

February 27, 2014 7:09 PM CWBChicago

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

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(VERY) ODDS & ENDS: Compilation of Curious Calls

February 26, 2014 9:07 PM CWBChicago

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

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MAPPED: The Neighborhoods’ Robbery, Burglary, Theft And More

February 26, 2014 12:30 PM CWBChicago

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.

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NEARBY: Teen Beaten, Robbed Near Roscoe & Janssen Tonight

February 25, 2014 11:33 PM CWBChicago

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

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ASSAULT AND PEPPER: Cops Nab Serial Battery Suspect

February 25, 2014 3:52 AM CWBChicago

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

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FALL GUY: City Blames Dispatcher For Slow Response Time; No Mention Of District Being In RAP Status

February 25, 2014 2:27 AM CWBChicago

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

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NEARBY: Man Charged With Sexual Assault Of Maid In Diversey Hotel

February 24, 2014 1:13 AM CWBChicago

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

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SCAMMED: Another Victim Loses Cash In Electronics Purchase

February 23, 2014 9:21 PM CWBChicago

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

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COPLESS: District Out Of Cops, Robbery Victim Waits 20+ Minutes For Help; Mayor’s Nearby Home Remains Fully Protected

February 23, 2014 3:28 PM CWBChicago

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

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SMASHING: Windows Shattered At Boystown Costume Shop; Five Arrests In Wrigleyville Overnight

February 23, 2014 1:47 PM CWBChicago

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

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