Month: September 2014

James S. Roberts, 66, is the man accused of pouring rubbing alcohol over his wife and setting her ablaze in the parking lot of an Uptown Jewel-Osco store on Sunday. Roberts is being held without bond on charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery, aggravated battery of a senior citizen, and pot possession. As of Tuesday night,

Images of the man who robbed a Fifth Third bank at Diversey/Clarkthis afternoon. (FBI) UPDATE 5:35PM SEPT 10: The FBI has confirmed that the man arrested yesterday is responsible for all three Fifth Third bank robberies over the past few weeks. —————— UPDATE 3:32PM: A suspect was arrested around 3:30PM today in an apartment building

Image: Walkscore.com UPDATE September 9: Charges have been filed. ——————————- UPDATE September 8, 11:50PM: The suspect in this case was transported to an area hospital for treatment of an unspecified condition shortly after he was taken into custody Sunday night. He remains hospitalized under police guard. ——————————– A 60-year-old woman is in critical condition after

Helmont—the robbery- and battery-plagued stretch of Belmont Avenue from Halsted to Seminary—refuses to be tamed. Newly-released data from the city shows that two previously-unreported robberies took place along that cursed 2,000-foot long stretch of asphalt last Sunday morning. One victim was strong arm robbed at Belmont and Seminary around 2:30AM and the other was targeted

Image: Gizmodo 2014, the Year of the Burglar in Lake View, continues in full force. Recent reports: At 9:45 this morning, a resident reported that her home in the 3800 block of Lakewood was entered between midnight and 7AM by a burglar who took a gray biker bag containing a wallet and passport; keys to an

Locations of possibly-related “young” gunmen robberies since Thursday. There are strong indications today that a crew of young robbery offenders is targeting women in late-night robberies on the fringes of Wrigleyville and Boystown. The Chicago Police Department has not officially connected the cases. In addition (and unrelated) to the “Young Guns” cases, a man was

A woman fell from a Wrigleyville rooftop during Friday afternoon’s Cubs game, plunging at least three stories to the ground below. She suffered a broken hip and is expected to be fine. Eventually. Police and fire crews responded to 1044 Waveland, the address of the Brixen Ivy rooftop club, at 4:44PM after multiple callers reported

Everyblock user lukedevitt is sharing his story of being beaten and robbed at the infamous corner of Belmont and Sheffield last month. His is a cautionary tale for those who find themselves on the streets late at night: I got robbed and beaten by a group of a dozen men at 3:00 in the morning

Friday, 2:05AM – Man at Belmont and Sheffield wants to see police about a woman he was with in a bar because, “she was talking about bombs.” Officers correctly guess that “she was talking about Jägerbombs.” Saturday, 1:18PM – A Lincoln Park family calls 911, claiming that their son has been kidnapped and his captors

Three male offenders, described only as “young” and about 5’6” tall, robbed a woman at gunpoint early this morning on Roscoe Street just west of Clark. Police met the victim at Roscoe and Kenmore shortly before 1 o’clock. There, she told them that the three offenders, likely teenagers, pulled shirts over their faces and each

A masked gunman robbed a woman near a Chase bank ATM in nearby Lake View around 10:15 Tuesday night. The gunman pulled a black semi-automatic handgun in the 2900 block of Lincoln, took the woman’s purse, then fled southbound in a white panel van that was driven by another man. The van’s license plate may

Gang tags at 3700 N. Recreation Drive have finally been covered. Two weeks ago, we called out the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation for marking our service request to remove gang graffiti along the lakefront seawall as “complete” when, in fact, they had done nothing. Today we can report that the job has been

The victims (visual approximation). These people really should know better. Twice last week, officers went on the hunt for firearms and other sensitive items that had been stolen from (or with) vehicles on Chicago’s North Side. Monday afternoon, a security guard’s Camaro was stolen on the far North Side. Within the Camaro: her body armor,