Month: May 2014

“The mayor’s got clout and I don’t.” ABC7 is pumping up an “I-Team” report for tomorrow night that will detail all of the red light camera and speed camera tickets that have been racked up by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s police-driven SUVs. (Boy, the TV promo has some very serious music for a story about traffic violations!)

Two would-be robbers scurried away empty-handed this morning after a Boystown resident fought back upon realizing that their firearm was actually a BB gun. The offenders approached the man in his garage between Buckingham and Roscoe, just east of Halsted at 12:05AM and attempted to rob or carjack him. After the victim got a good

Is help a one-way street? Two police officers were injured yesterday as they tried to take a violent offender into custody outside of the former Diplomat Hotel at Belmont and Sheffield. The facility, which recently underwent a $13 million tax payer-subsidized renovation, is now run as affordable housing by Thresholds. According to some cops, Thresholds

Possibly coming soon: Tom Tunney Questions about the the Chicago Police Department’s crime recording practices and categorization of homicides have been hot topics since Chicago magazine and the city’s inspector general published critical reports on April 7. Two resolutions calling for hearings with testimony by the inspector general and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy were introduced

An unmarked police car sits outside of Dugout bar Wednesday night. The Chicago police investigation into the death of Jacob Klepacz, who died after being found with severe head trauma in Lincoln Park early Monday, continued well into last night. Officers were seen at The Dugout bar in Wrigleville after sunset Wednesday. That is where

UPDATED MAY 7: Both of these cases have been classified as aggravated batteries with dangerous weapons. UPDATE MAY 14: An arrest has been made. ——- Two women were injured yesterday evening in what appear to be related, but completely separate attacks by an unknown man in the area. In the first case, a woman reported

Sea Coast Mazda Two underage burglars were caught after a short foot chase across the Halsted Strip in Boystown last night. Police responding to a burglar alarm in the 800 block of Buckingham around 9:30 saw two suspects fleeing through the alley between Buckingham and Roscoe. One was taken in to custody in the alley,