Month: August 2014

Sure looks good to us. A woman got punched by a complete stranger as she pushed a stroller with two small children along Clark Street Wednesday morning. 19th district officers successfully tracked the offender down and made an arrest. Police met the victim at Clark and Surf around 11AM and immediately began searching Diversey between

Bullet hole in the window of a Buckingham Place home. While late night revelers mingled on Halsted Street and Market Days work crews broke down the festival’s tents, at least two shots were fired just steps away in the 700 block of Buckingham Place early Monday morning. One round, possibly a ricochet, crashed through a

You’d better sit down for this. A man was robbed on the “Helmont Corridor” this morning, making him at least the 28th person to be victimized this year on the quarter-mile stretch of Belmont Avenue between Halsted and Seminary. The Boystown resident flagged down a patrol car at 1:35AM near Seminary and Belmont after being

Update: All charges were dropped on September 18, 2014. ————– Charges have been filed against three women in connection with the July 31 beating of a man on Boystown’s Halsted strip. Facing various charges are Chenae L. Bingham, 22, Krystal K. Wolf, 20, and Shereya C. Moore, also 22. All three are free on $1,500 recognizance

At least three people have reported being robbed in Boystown since dinner time last night. For the weekend, five robberies were reported to 911, but two incidents late Saturday and early Sunday are not expected to result in police reports. Among the reports from Sunday evening into early Monday: 7:30PM – A Boystown resident becomes

A Boytown resident the targeted of an attempted robbery inside his 5th floor apartment at Halsted and Belmont around 7:30 Sunday evening. Police say the would-be robber may have entered the victim’s unit by climbing an exterior fire escape. The situation turned physical before the offender fled empty-handed. Recorded as an attempted strong arm robbery

A decision to rely on private security to handle matters along Halsted Street after the first night of Market Days led to confusion among 19th district police and emergency dispatchers. While we can report on issues addressed by the police department, private security does not file police reports nor do they utilize police communications, so

Mainstream news outlets report that a 32-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his thigh walked into Provident Hospital on the city’s South Side this morning, claiming to have been shot in the 3100 block of Clark Street. While the man’s gunshot wound is legit, his story about being shot near Boystown is not, according

Image: Punch Pow Two early morning robberies lead our Thursday update: • An officer on patrol was flagged down by a bloody robbery victim at Clark and Surf around 3:15 this morning. According to the victim and two witnesses, the man was beaten up and robbed of his wallet by two offenders in the 2800

A CWB reader photo of coin devices pried from Boystownlaundry room machines in November 2013. It’s been a while since we’ve reported on laundry room break-ins. A rash of break-ins last November resulted in up to a dozen apartment buildings targeted for the coins inside their washing machines—mostley between Halsted and Lake Shore Drive from

Image: FBI Who wears a poncho on a brilliantly sunny day? A bank robber. A Lake View bank was robbed of over $1,000 this afternoon by a man who implied he had a weapon, according to police and a witness. Officers were tipped off around 12:15PM by multiple alarm triggers at the Fifth Third bank,

The city has confirmed yet another previously-unreported robbery on Helmont when it released data showing a strong arm robbery outside of 1000 Liquors, 1000 W Belmont, at 1:20AM July 25th. Now, here is this weekend’s tick-tock… Friday, August 1, 12:20AM — Security at Montrose Harbor reports that a guy “just stole a John Deere tractor,