Month: June 2014

Eight long hours after yesterday’s Pride Parade ended,  Chicago Police vehicles are stacked up on Halsted Street as officers try to maintain control of the area. On the heels of a post-Pride Parade s***show of epic proportions, Alderman Tom Tunney today tells CBS2Chicago today that he is open to moving the Pride Parade downtown. “We hear from

Six people called police to report being robbed in our neighborhood between 8:30 last night and 4:30 this morning. Belmont Avenue, which has racked up a dozen muggings in a month, scored two more in the overnight mayhem. • A moving van crew was robbed at gunpoint in the 2900 block of Racine around 8:30

Eight hours after Sunday’s parade ended, police were still hustling tomaintain control of area streets. The Chicago Police Department fired off a press release minutes after yesterday’s Pride Parade ended. In it, they perkily announced that the parade garnered a mere eight arrests and a good time was had by all. End of story. Bye

For many concerned neighbors, it has been the “what if” and “one of these days” scenario that we hoped would never come, but in our gut knew it would. The fact that it came in the disaster that has recently followed Chicago’s Pride Parade should surprise no one. A 21-year-old gang member was shot while

Video: Crowd pummels a cop car during Pride 2014 Here are a few videos from Pride 2014 that have caught our eyes so far: Kristen Linscott’s photos of an unruly crowd dancing on and smashing the windows of a Chicago Police Department patrol car at Aldine and Broadway come to life in her Telly video.

Image: B Michelle Pippin Fourteen people have been arrested so far today along the Chicago Pride Parade route. The day’s events have so far been marked by fewer batteries than last year, but a significant number of calls for medical assistance, many of which received long-delayed responses. As of 6:40PM, this afternoon’s arrests include: 11:23AM

Let’s have some fun. Here’s a look at scenes from the 2015 Chicago Pride Parade side-by-side with photos of the same locations during long-ago Pride Parades. The parade has really changed. The buildings? Not so much. Broadway At Wellington, 1985 1985 Photo: Alan Light on Flickr Broadway & Belmont 1976 1976 photo: Leather Archives & Museum Broadway

The locations of 10 known robberies that have been reported alongBelmont Avenue since June 8th. Two more men were beaten and robbed along Belmont Avenue overnight. In a sign of just how brazen and out of control the area has become, one victim was attacked under the Red Line tracks as two CTA police units

Ha. Haha. Haahaha. Yeah. A police camera. Early today, the Chicago Police Department released data confirming two more armed robberies reported at the intersection of Belmont and Sheffield last Saturday morning. Raw information from the department’s CLEARMap site shows one victim reported being robbed at gunpoint south of the intersection at 2:00AM last Saturday and

Illinois Masonic Medical Center’s public safety patrol played a key role in apprehending a robbery offender Friday afternoon. Witnesses called 911 at 2:05PM yesterday and reported that a woman had been strong-arm robbed behind the Walgreens at Clark and Barry. Within seconds, an Illinois Masonic patrol and 19th district police stopped a suspect—described only as

A Boystown bar employee was struck in the back of the head and robbed of his wallet near Roscoe and Halsted this morning. This is at least the second report of a robbery victim being clubbed in the head this week. Today’s victim called police from the nearby 7-Eleven store shortly before 5 o’clock. He

A Chicago Police car is used as a dance floor during the 2013 Pride Parade. The Chicago Police Department’s annual warning about an impending crackdown on drinking at the Chicago Pride Parade caused the annual roar of gasps and outrage yesterday. Of course, the exact same warnings were issued last year. And similar announcements were made