Month: March 2014

CWB estimates that 21 people were taken into police custody during Wrigleyville’s Saturday-into-Sunday St. Patrick’s binge. But there was only one tazing. (Rats!) 28 batteries were witnessed or otherwise confirmed by police. Few were formalized with police reports. Ambulances took at least 17 people to area hospitals and officers were tied up with at least

…and the St. Patrick’s Day “entertainment” begins. 12:36PM – Huge party in an apartment, 600 block of Cornelia. It’s big, it’s loud, and people are urinating out the windows. 12:46PM – 2 Missouri residents cited for drinking on the public way in Wrigleyville. 1:03PM – Citation for drinking on the public way, 3546 Clark. 1:07PM

Locations of burglaries between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. A number of burglaries have been reported in the neighborhood following yesterday afternoon’s break-in of a condo in the 600 block of Stratford. Additional burglaries that have been discovered include: • A resident of the 3500 block of Broadway returned from a 12-day vacation Friday evening

The first residents will move into Halsted Flats today. That’s the brand new luxury apartment building next to IHop. If yesterday evening is any indication (and it is), our new neighbors are in for an interesting summer. The rooftop dog walk park at Halsted Flats. On the plus side, the rent on their $2,400/month one-bedroom

Several callers reported that two men were fighting near the IHop at Grace and Halsted this afternoon. A police officer was injured during the effort to restore the peace. It turns out that the incident actually involved a 30-year-old woman who struck a man on the street, causing the man to “go berserk” shortly before

Loitering. It was one of the major concerns expressed by residents of Southeast Lake View this autumn as the Howard Brown Health Center’s Broadway Youth Center sought a zoning variance to operate on a residential street. Residents’ concerns were countered with statements such as “those people have a right to be on the public way”

UPDATE MARCH 14, 12:15AM: Pierre and Rue have been found. In an email forwarded to us, Charlie Gurion says he was contacted tonight by a man saw who saw an ad about the missing dogs on Craigslist: He found them in Humboldt Park last night before the storm while coming home from the laundromat with

It looks like one of the victims of this morning’s robbery near Illinois Masonic Medical Center has taken to the Internet to collect suggestions for free entertainment to enjoy during his spring break stop-over in Lake View. I’m in your fair city on Spring Break with a buddy from college and last night, while walking

The Broadway Youth Center, which serves LGBT youth from a church near Broadway and Wellington, has suspended “drop-in services” for the rest of this week after a fight broke out among its clients inside the church Monday afternoon. Police first responded to a battery in progress call around 2:50PM, but the caller did not give

A Lakeview man and three companions were robbed near Illinois Masonic Medical Center just after midnight this morning by a man who implied he had a handgun. No one is in custody. Officers met the victims at a nearby home and issued a description of the armed robber: male, black, at least 25 years old,

Recap of CWB’s reports from this weekend: BOYSTOWN: Two Women Robbed; “Gonna Blow Your Head Off” MINOR MIRACLE: 12 Cops To Be Transferred INTO 19th District MUCK OF THE IRISH: Cops Surprised By “Unexpected” Bar Crawl NEWS NOTES: Short Items ——————— CWB is now on Facebook. Come “Like” us.

We’ve recently published updates on Wrigleyville and Boystown robbery cases from 2013. There were several incidents in nearby areas of Lake View that are worth updating, too. Here they are: Sentencing In Southport Robbery Crawford (L) and Johnson. (Illinois Dept of Corrections) As CWB reported on July 14, two men were arrested near Boystown after

Top brass of the Chicago Police Department love to tout their Predictive Analytics unit—sometimes called the “Crystal Ball Unit”—which claims to have the ability to predict where homicides will happen before they actually happen. When they get some spare time, maybe the department will develop the elusive technology needed to predict when Wrigleyville bar crawls