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
A pickpocket spree on CTA trains and near CTA stations in our neighborhood is the topic of a fresh alert from Chicago Police. Detectives say victims traveling alone have been targeted at CTA stations or “in a CTA conveyance” passing through our area by one or two offenders who surreptitiously took valuables from the victims’
Want to piss 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
Welch. (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) Derrick Welch Jr, 31, is charged with one count of aggravated robbery in connection with the November 9 mugging of a woman in the 1300 block of Cornelia. The 28-year-old victim told police that Welch implied that he had a handgun when he confronted her on the sidewalk around 3
The cameras weren’t on: “Fuck you, Chicago Police. I’ll kick your ass.” That’s what Jedrze Pitrzak allegedly yelled at a tactical team while raising his fist into the Wrigleyville air on November 8. When cops approached Pitrzak, the 26-year-old allegedly warned, “Touch me and I will knock you out!” Contrary to Pitrzak’s purported expectations, no
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
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