Month: May 2014

The intersection of Halsted and Aldine on Google Street View. Police caught two of the four people who beat a woman on Boystown’s Halsted strip early Tuesday morning. Officers responding to the battery in progress call requested an ambulance upon finding a woman bleeding after a group of “four females with one male” attacked her

Image: Chicago magazine Chicago magazine has published part two of its in-depth look at how the Chicago Police Department manipulates crime statistics. Our 19th district is front and center throughout the report. Get comfortable and settle in for an excellent read. One way the department massages statistics is by downgrading serious crimes to less serious

A battery victim who has “zero confidence” that the Chicago Police Department will do anything about a random attack on the streets of Wrigleyville that left him with a broken nose, facial lacerations, and a concussion, has turned to Craigslist, where he’s offering a $1,000 reward for information that helps him track down the offenders.

Left to right: Garrett, Barners, Brickell, Wolfe (Cook County Sheriff’s Office) Here’s a look at some of the people who stand accused of crimes reported on CWB in recent weeks. All of the information is based on CWB’s review of Cook County Criminal Court records and is current as of the time of publication. Andre D.

Can’t beat that for a great weekend, huh? Here’s a recap of what went down while we soaked up the sun: • Two robberies were reported in the immediate area. Police arrested the offender who robbed a 7-Eleven and one of its customers Saturday night in the 1100 block of Belmont. But the two men

The 7-Eleven store at Belmont and Racine  as seen on Google Street View. A beautifully-detailed 911 call and good police work led to the arrest of a man who implied that he had a weapon as he robbed a local 7-Eleven store and one of its customers shortly before midnight. Police were called to the

Two idiots who failed to comply with police officers have been tazed in the area since Friday morning. Those incidents are part of our weekend tick tock: Friday 4:10AM — A resident reports an unknown white man trying to break in the back door of his house in the 3100 block of Kenmore. Officers arrive

Michael Stephens (Illinois Department of Corrections) Justice was swift for a man who got busted during an attempted burglary in the 3000 block of Waterloo Court on March 26th. Less than two months after his arrest, Michael Stephens pleaded guilty to that attempted burglary as well as other burglary cases that he had pending in

An active early Saturday morning has left at least one person robbed in Lake View, a 19-year-old knifed in nearby Lincoln Park, and a Wrigleyville resident awakened by two burglars in his apartment. Lake View Robbery A man reported being targeted by two strong-arm robbery offenders around 4:10 this morning near the intersection of Roscoe

New information reveals that the stupidity that culminated in five people being arrested in a “huge” brawl at the Belmont CTA station early last Friday morning was even stupider than we realized. CWB has learned that at least two people were robbed on Halsted Street as the summer-like antics peaked between 1AM and 2AM. One

A Lincoln Park man has been charged with three attacks on women in which the victims were hit in their heads with a heavy object, described as a “brick or chunk of concrete” by officers after one incident.. DNAInfo Chicago reports that 30-year-old Kevin Jones of Lincoln Park is charged with three counts of aggravated battery and

Police captured a man who allegedly passed a threatening note and robbed the CVS Pharmacy at Halsted and Barry around 7 o’clock this morning. According to a witness, the offender—described as a white man, about 5’4″ tall, wearing blue jeans, glasses, and having a striped shirt covering his face—stated that he had a gun, but