Month: November 2014

He brought a big sack and he handles packages, but he isn’t Santa. “Cyber Monday” is here and our neighborhood’s prolific package thieves and burglars are already on the job. At least three residents reported having their homes burglarized this morning—including one whose U.S. Army medals were stolen and dumped in a nearby alley. On

Want to p**s people off? Tell them it’s your birthday. Shriek up to the nearest bartender, “It’s my birthday! Give me a free drink!” They love that. But our cop-slashing mayor has no shame. It’s his birthday and he wants you to know it. His one tweet yesterday was an announcement that he’d be turning

The big story this weekend was the ongoing surge in overnight muggings. But that’s just the tip of the action: FRIDAY, 4:33PM Near Irving Park and Broadway, a man reportedly approaches a woman from behind and tries to drag her into a gangway between two buildings in an apparent attempted sexual assault. A passing motorist

A three year streak of record-high robbery rates and violent street crime in Wrigleyville and Boystown was snapped this year, bringing the neighborhood back to mugging levels last seen in 2007. Every month this summer saw fewer robberies than the month before. The improvement stalled last month and it now seems to be in full

The locations of robberies reported since last Saturday.Red indicates robberies reported today. Black represents casesreported earlier in the week. Orange has yet to be confirmed. The run-away robbery spree continues unabated in Wrigleyville and Boystown, with four people being attacked in just over an hour this morning. While the media today reports on a police alert

Approximate locations of this morning’s incidents. At least two more people were beaten and robbed in the neighborhood overnight, with a third reported robbery yet to be verified. In the latest incident, a man was approached from behind and hit in the head with an unknown object near Waveland and Southport around 2:30 this morning.

A 22-year-old man’s claim of being shot in the hand while on a sidewalk near Diversey and Sheridan around 2:15 this morning appears to be false,  according to CWB sources. The purported incident has been reported in the Tribune and on DNAInfo Chicago. Both cite a police spokesman. We are told that the man, who

A Wrigleyville man became at least the sixth person robbed in our neighborhood this week as he was attacked near Clifton and Waveland at 12:30 this morning. While a 19th district tactical unit stopped three suspicious individuals in the area moments after the man was robbed, they had to let the trio go because the

Conservative Outfitters Area North Detectives believe that a robbery crew that has targeted delivery drivers, including one in nearby Lakeview, struck again this week. The latest incident took place in the 2700 block of N. Richmond in Logan Square around 8:10PM on Tuesday. Police issued an alert on Monday after two earlier incidents were connected—one

Political Blind Spot UPDATE 8:50AM—Police have issued a community alert to warn of robberies. The alert connects two of this weekend’s incidents to the same group of offenders: Saturday morning’s robberies at Clark and School as well as Saturday morning’s robbery at Cornelia and Wilton. More info on those robberies HERE. —— What a mess.