Month: July 2014

Shaquille Rush (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) The vehicle taken in a Lake View carjacking on the Fourth of July has been recovered in the South Side’s Grand Crossing police district according to a source in the department. A man who was allegedly driving the vehicle is in custody. Officers allege that Shaquille Rush fled from

951 W. Addison as seen on Google Street View Two people are in custody after a victim was robbed at knifepoint early this morning at 951 W. Addison, across from the Addison Red Line station. Officers in the area were waved down around 2:30AM and quickly transmitted a description of the offender. Other officers immediately

Following two armed robberies in her Lincoln Park ward last week, Alderman Michele Smith hosted a ridiculous “police roll call” near Mildred and Wrightwood Wednesday night to “send a message” to robbery offenders. Of course, there were no robbery offenders present, so let’s stamp that message “return to sender.” One more thing about Wednesday before

Marco Alvarado (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) UPDATED JULY 18: Alvarado today was ordered held without bond. UPDATED 5:15PM: Marco Alvarado, 21, of Little Village was charged Friday with murder and robbery in the death of Jacob Klepacz on April 28th. Another man is also believed to be in custody, but is not yet charged. According

A shoplifting crew rolled $3,000 worth of clothing out of the Belmont Avenue American Apparel store yesterday evening, rolled the racks up Wilton Avenue, loaded it all into a black Ford that was occupied by a baby, and sped off. No one is in custody. Other witnesses said no racks were used, but the offenders

Pitchforks and crowns. Hard to know which side is “up.” When two men were critically wounded in a gang-related shooting by the tennis courts at Addison and Lake Shore Drive last week, many people were surprised. Gang shootings? Less than a week before that, another man was shot in a gang incident at Belmont and

This screen shot from theChicago Police Department’sCLEARMap site shows localpolice beat 1924 has reached firstplace for robberies over a rolling90-day period. Hi fives all around, baby! As CWB predicted last Monday, Wrigleyville and Boystown has reached the #1 spot on the Chicago Police Department’s list of places to go if you want to be robbed.

There’s a bar graph at the top of every page on CWB. It shows the dramatic and, frankly, dangerous decline in the number of police officers assigned to our district. As of mid-May, 118 fewer cops were officially assigned here than in October 2011. But the bar graph does not tell the whole story. According

A man who got on a CTA train at the Sheridan L stop last night ran into his attackers again at the Addison CTA station as he made his way home from filing the police report! The victim reported that he chased after the three thieves following the theft, only to wind up getting punched

H-Blab Descriptions of criminal suspects can be so boring sometimes. Thank goodness we have people like these to keep it interesting: Best Suspect Description Of The Week (Candidate #1) Wanted for the theft of a white Toyota RAV 4 at 4:38PM Thursday in the 1100 block of Fullerton: A black man in his 20’s, 6’1″

Two people reported being robbed as the sun rose over nearby Lake View this morning—a cab driver and a woman who was targeted near the Century Shopping Centre Woman Robbed Near Century Mall Landmark Theaters A woman was punched in the face and robbed of her purse near the Century Shopping Centre at Clark and

Jeepers. Lincoln Park Alderman Michele Smith almost blew a valve yesterday afternoon following (gasp!) two robberies in her ward within 3 hours. She even sent out an email about one of the robberies in which a young mother was robbed of her phone and wedding ring at gunpoint. The alderman failed to mention a couple