Month: June 2014

MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes reports tonight on “the controversy surrounding Chicago’s plummeting crime stats,” building on the extensive springtime reporting of Noah Isackson and David Bernstein in Chicago magazine. Isackson and Bernstein’s second installment focused heavily on developments here in our 19th district. In a preview of tonight’s report, Mayor Rahm Emanuel stammers his way through

Eric Boose  Image; Cook County Sheriff’s Office Ever seen this guy? Eric Boose is the man who got tazed by police at the Boystown Circle K/Shell station during Pride Fest this weekend—three days after he was released from a downstate prison. Illinois Department of Corrections records indicate that Boose was paroled out of the Pinckneyville

 Alta Vista Terrace as seen on Curbed Chicago The burglary of a home on Wrigleyville’s historic Alta Vista Terrace was foiled Monday when a flood of police responded to a neighbor’s 911 call. Three offenders were arrested. Police got the call reporting three men entering the back door of a landmark home in the 3800 block

A busy weekend of Cubs fans, Pride Fest celebrants, and rock concert attendees appears to have been marred only by the mob rule of Belmont Avenue, which hosted more than its share of street fights and at least two robberies Sunday morning. As next week’s Pride Parade approaches, police and organizers are hoping to avoid

Check out our full run-down on this past weekend as Pride Parade organizers and police aim to control Belmont next weekend. Here are a few less serious reports from last weekend: Saturday, 4:30AM – An off-duty Michigan State Trooper calls 911 because someone has taken his shirt and won’t give it back at Hydrate nightclub

Joshua Givens (Cook County Sheriff’s Office) Prosecutors today charged a second man in connection with the beating and robbery of a 34-year-old Edgewater man outside of the Belmont L station early Tuesday morning. Charged with robbery is Joshua Givens, 20, of Skokie. He is being held on $125,000 bond. Givens was arrested outside of the

The armed robberies of a Belmont Avenue sex shop and a Clark Street smoke shop are believed to be connected to a series of similar hold-ups in Bucktown, Chicago police say. An alert issued by the department on Friday afternoon includes images of the suspects and a their get-away car. In all of the incidents,

Roger Lakes (Cook County Sheriff’s Office) UPDATE JUNE 21: Charges have been filed against a second man. That man, reported to be 19 in our report below, actually turned 20 on May 18th. ———– Outstanding work by 19th district officers has resulted in the arrests of two men in connection with a brutal beating and robbery

Rainy weather usually means criminals will be less active. But rain did not dampen the spirits of ladies in the 19th district last night. The fairer sex went on a robbing and beating spree that stretched far and wide: 8:17PM Thursday – A masked woman pulls a handgun and robs another woman on the street

To the list of places that you should not have your cell phone exposed in Lake view, you may now add this: Your home. A woman called 911 shortly before 10 o’clock this morning to report that a teenager had just come into her house and stolen her iPhone, iPod, and a charger. She had

See our first set of Pride then & now here. Belmont & Broadway, Gay Pride Parade 1976 & Spring 2014 3030 Broadway, Gay Pride 1976 & Spring 2014 1976 photo:  Diane Alexander White Photography Broadway & Oakdale, 1985 (Mayor Jane Byrne in Convertible) & 2014 1985 photo: Alan Light on Flickr Clark & St. James,

When most of us moved to this neighborhood we knew about the pre-existing conditions that come with living in a nightlife district. A little thumpy bass from the club down the street and the enthusiastic drunks screaming as they walk home at closing time come with the territory. Things have changed in recent years. Now,

Exactly one week after a woman reported being robbed at gunpoint by two men—one of whom looked like Coolio—another woman was robbed this morning by two men with similar descriptions and a similar get-away vehicle. Police met this morning’s victim at 1:30AM near the Home Depot on Halsted Street in nearby Lincoln Park. The woman