Month: March 2014

You’ve probably heard about the shenanigans on Clark Street during the pre-St. Patrick’s Day binge last Saturday. Now, there’s a map of the fun. This pretty picture comes from the Chicago Police Department’s CLEARMap page.  It shows all police reports filed along the Wrigleyville stretch of Clark Street last Saturday and into the early hours

Image: Evil Crayon Gosh, some of these people are getting all handsy lately. Especially on Halsted. And not in a friendly way. It won’t be long before stupid antics like some of these incidents will tie up our limited police resources, causing important matters such as robberies to get weak and delayed responses. Friday, 4:53AM: Officers

Officers came across a bloody robbery victim near Wrigley Field as the Clark Street bars let out around 2 o’clock this morning. The stunned victim, bleeding from the mouth, lost his iPhone 5 in the attack behind the Sports World souvenir shop on the southeast corner of Clark and Addison. Police searched the area for

Images: Federal Bureau of Investigation A man who robbed the TCF Bank inside of Boystown’s Jewel-Osco store on Sunday struck again at a different location this morning. A hold-up alarm sounded at the TCF Bank inside of the Jewel-Osco at 4355 N. Sheridan Road shortly after 9 o’clock this morning. Officers say the man passed

A sleeping woman was awakened by the sound of an intruder in her Briar Place apartment late Thursday night. The offender’s intentions are not known. Police responded to the victim’s home, a garden apartment of a courtyard building in the 700 block of Briar, at 11:20PM. There, the woman told officers that she got up

For at least the 7th time since last Friday, a resident has returned to find their home burglarized in Boystown. Like nearly all of the other break-ins, the targeted unit is along the Broadway corridor. At 11:25pm last night, a tenant returned to their apartment in the 3200 block of Broadway, across from Nettlehorst School,

Chicago Spectrum has updated their 2014 Wrigleyville/Boystown crime maps HERE. They’ve plotted out all reported theft, burglary, robbery, assault, battery, and narcotics incidents. You can zoom in to street level and click for more info about each incident. ——————- Keep up with CWB on Facebook and Twitter. 

Two more Boystown-area residents have reported burglaries to their homes, bringing the number of incidents reported since Friday to six. The break-in locations are generally located on side streets along Broadway between Belmont and Grace. The two new incidents are: • The 600 block of Roscoe. Reported at 8:27PM last night, this is the only

The good folks at RedEye have tracked down the lucky recipient of this weekend’s police tazing at John Barleycorn in Wrigleyville. Irish-themed holiday buff John Acosta, 21, has been charged with aggravated battery to a police officer and resisting arrest. According to RedEye: Once inside the bar an officer used his Taser on Acosta, yelling

Over-served patrons did not have a monopoly on bad news emanating from area bars this St. Patrick’s Day weekend. At least two bars—one in Boystown and one in nearby Lincoln Park—found themselves on the receiving end of police service, too. At 5:45 Friday evening, an arrest was made at Bonsai Bar & Lounge, 3503 N.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. You could probably make a few bucks wagering with certain people who are confident that Saturday was St. Patrick’s Day. Wrong. Pay up.  Our 19th district received a little help from other districts as Wrigleyville’s antics rolled into early Sunday morning. (Sunday’s reinforcements were minimal, especially when compared to the small army

UPDATE 12:15AM MARCH 17: The FBI has updated their description of the offender. They now describe him as a male Hispanic in his late 20’s to early 30’s, 5’9″ to 6′ tall with a slim build and facial hair. ————– That poor little TCF Bank inside of the Boystown Jewel-Osco, 3531 N. Broadway, was robbed

SWAT handling incident at Fullerton. Drive closed to keep citizens out of line of fire. Avoid lake front path. Dispatch indicates shots fired in the incident. CWB will withhold updates until the incident is resolved.