Month: April 2014

It should have been one of the safest areas in the world tonight. Should have been. As President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser at Fullerton and Janssen this evening, up to six hooded men battled bumper-to-bumper traffic to successfully storm and rob a nearby GameStop, escaping with hundreds of dollars in merchandise. No arrests have

A lesser man’s back would be thrown out by the twisting, turning, and spinning that Chicago authorities go through in an effort to hide crime increases. A number of local “news” outlets were quick to fire off re-writes of the Chicago Police Department’s first-of-the-month “Crime Is Down” press release yesterday. Since Chicago’s March and February

A bike-mounted phone snatcher struck near Broadway and Irving Park around  8:15 last night. Last seen pedaling westbound on Irving Park Road was a black male wearing navy blue track pants with orange stripes running down the legs. He was on a dark mountain bike. Recorded as a theft in CPD record HX206151. Fancy Meeting

UPDATE: Additional robbery reports have been filed over the phone. In the end, March 2014 exceeded last year’s robbery count by two incidents. —————————————— Robberies are one of the measures by which the change in our neighborhood’s fabric can be seen. Coming off of three record-setting years, robberies started 2014 with a whimper. (Thank you,