Month: April 2014

Given what we know, we could catch the rapist who attacked and robbed a woman in that Boystown alley yesterday afternoon.. Wearing a White Sox skully with a pompom in Wrigleyville? He may as well have smiled for the cameras—which he literally did. The story as we see it now is that Chicago Police Department

Updated info is available here. ——– A 22-year-old woman was sexually assaulted, robbed, and threatened with a knife in the alley behind the former Brompton Auto Body, 3532 N. Halsted, around 4:30 Monday afternoon. The former Brompton Auto Body garage at 3532 N. Halsted. (Image: ChicagoPride.com) Police say the victim was threatened with a knife

A loose end. It looks like the crew that robbed a GameStop just blocks from a Secret Service security zone during President Barack Obama’s recent visit has hit at least five similar stores. Another Repeat Performance 19th district police believe that the Hispanic man who robbed a victim 100 yards from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s front

Today is the one-year anniversary for Crime In Wrigleyville and Boystown. Precocious. Our motivation for starting this blog is exactly the same thing that motivates us to this day: To inform our neighbors about a very serious and growing street crime problem and the dangerous erosion of police protection in two neighborhoods that we sincerely

Fresh this morning on CWB: Man stabbed along lakefront path. He’ll be OK District has run out of cops repeatedly this weekend Saturday night cluster as Wrigleyville bars suck up a third of the district’s patrol cars ———- Email us.  Like us on Facebook.  Follow us on Twitter. 

It would be difficult to do justice to the ridiculousness of last night in paragraph form. Calls for police service stacked up like cordwood, waiting for officers to become available. In addition to the dedicated “entertainment detail,” at least four of the district’s 14 active beat cars were tied up on Clark Street, dealing with

The 19th district ran out of officers to handle emergency calls for three extended periods between Saturday afternoon and sunrise on Sunday, going into “RAP” status for at least eight of the 17 hours between 1PM Saturday and sunrise today. “RAP” stands for “Radio Assignments Pending.” It’s a status declared by the Office of Emergency

A stabbing victim was found along the lake front jogging path near the tennis courts at 3600 N. Recreation Drive at 11:55 Saturday night. The victim suffered a knife wound to his back, but was reported to be “walking and talking” when officers arrived. He was transported to Illinois Masonic Medical Center for treatment. According

What’s the best way to get help when you get robbed at 6 o’clock in the morning? Well, if you’re the guy who got robbed at Berteau and Hermitage this morning, you just walk 100 yards up the street and talk to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s security detail. One of the police officers assigned to the

What can (Wavey) Brown do for you? Chicago Police picked up an alleged package thief with a serious criminal record and delivered him to jail Monday afternoon. After a brief foot chase, Wavey Brown is taken into custody nearBelmont and Lake Shore Drive. Image: CWB Reader “We hope this eliminates one of our chronic problems,”

What is it about our neighborhood that makes it so darned irresistible? Within weeks of wrapping up a four-year prison sentence for robbing and beating a man with a chain near the Belmont Red Line station, Semaj Jones returned to Wrigleyville and Boystown where he has been no stranger to the police. Jones was just

Updated information from the Chicago Police Department reveals that ten robberies were reported last month on the three police beats that cover the bulk of Wrigleyville and Boystown. Eight cases were reported in March of last year. A total of 21 robberies were reported on police beats 1923, 1924, and 1925 through the first quarter.

FBI A bank robber who made his debut performance at the TCF branch inside of Boystown’s Jewel-Osco store last month held up his fifth bank since March 16th this morning. The FBI says the so-called “Benchwarmer Bandit” held up the Citibank branch at 111 W. Jackson around 8:20 this morning. A $5,000 reward is being