Month: September 2014

Map showing gains and losses in each of Chicago’s police districts, October 2011 vs. July 2014. (See a zoomable version HERE) “How many murders you got?” That was Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s flip response when a Lakeview resident asked him about the 22% cut in police manpower in our 19th district. We’ll come back to that

Image: Soda Head Two days after a Lakeview man says police did not respond to a neighbor’s 911 call of a burglary in progress, a woman waited at least 10 minutes for police to arrive after a man broke into her apartment and tried to get into her bed this morning. The man was still

An alleged intruder tries unsuccessfully to kick his way into a Lake View home early Saturday morning. Full video HERE. UPDATE: A woman waited more than 10 minutes for police to arrive this morning after a man broke into her Lake View apartment and tried to get into bed with her. Story here. ——– A

Chicago Police are warning of a criminal sexual assault that took place in west Lake View early last Sunday morning. According to the Sun-Times: A 27-year-old woman was walking west in the 1600 block of West Fletcher about 2:25 a.m. on Sept. 14 when a man tackled her from behind, according to a police alert.

Eight police officers will be allowed to transfer into our district next month according to a post at Second City Cop. At the same time, several other “good” districts and both airports will be accepting transfers, so we should expect some of our current officers to leave next month, too. So far this year, dozens

MB Bank, Clark and Belmont. Three robberies headline the weekend so far. • Passers-by reported a man in his early 20’s on the ground, in pain, and bleeding from the head at Brompton and Pine Grove early Saturday morning. Paramedics located the man and police soon determined that he had also been robbed at gunpoint

Lake View Lutheran Church, home of The Crib youth shelter.CWB does not have access to the suspect’s mugshot because hewas released on an I-Bond. (Image: DNAInfo) Malaki Mercado, a 21-year-old client of The Crib youth shelter is charged with battery and resisting police after allegedly groping and forcibly kissing a Lake View woman as she

Wolowic, Wallace, Wilson. (Images: Chicago Police Department, Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) CWB was first to report on a home invasion in the 1800 block of Belmont this week. Bryna Wolowic is accused of conspiring with Gary Wallace and Melvin Wilson to rob her brother and his three roommates at knife- and gunpoint inside the brother’s apartment.

Jonathan Ben (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) A 21-year-old South Side man is being held on $750,000 bond this morning, accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint in Lincoln Park Thursday morning. Jonathan A. Ben, of the 7800 block of S. Euclid, is charged with one count of armed robbery and one count of unlawful use

Employees clean up broken glass after a burglary attheir cell phone store on Belmont this week. (CWB Reader) At 8 o’clock last night, an anonymous 911 caller reported seeing a “youth” trying to climb into an apartment window in the 800 block of Addison. The suspect, sporting a pink back pack, gave up and then

Effects of a recent arson fire in the 900 block ofMargate Terrace, Uptown. (Image: Facebook) UPDATE 2:03PM: After today’s hearing, Grunauer is being held without bond. Another bond hearing is scheduled for next week. ———- Daniel Grunauer, described by 48th ward staffer Marko Zaric, as an ”Arson suspect!” will be in court at 9:30 this

Two women were pushed to the ground by a man who tried to rob them of their purses at 10:45 last night near Diversey and Seminary. The offender fled without getting their property. The victims, who are roommates, describe the offender as a Hispanic man in his early 20’s, about 5’6” tall, who wore Rayban

Image: Visit Clark Street Yet another woman has been robbed at gunpoint by a ski-masked offender on the north end of Lincoln Park, near Clark and Diversey. Unlike Friday evening’s incident, in which an armed offender shot at a female victim, this morning’s robber was tracked down and arrested. 19th district officers followed the victim’s