Month: November 2014

UPDATE NOVEMBER 17 8:47AM— Police have issued a community alert for robberies in the area. The alert connects the Clark/School and Cornelia/Wilton robberies with the same group of offenders. UPDATE NOV 17 1:10AM: More robberies occurred since this report. There have now been 4 robberies in the immediate area and two more in nearby neighborhoods. UPDATE 12:35PM—Added

Detectives want to find the owner of this men’s ringfrom the Fenger High School class of 1966. Area North detectives are trying to identify more burglary victims after arresting a man they believe pulled off numerous residential break-ins around the 19th district. Dauta Head, 46, of the 5300 block of S. Indiana in the Washington

Baez gives us some duck lips. (Cook Co. Sheriff) Edwin Torres and Maria Baez are the two knuckleheads who were arrested early Thursday morning after cops allegedly saw them breaking into vehicles at Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s security detail headquarters. Police say Ms. Baez went the extra mile on Stupidity Road by battering an officer who

Tip: This firehouse is NOT abandoned. Oops! Hey, criminals. There are more than 3 square miles of Lake View across which you can probably break into vehicles without much risk of being caught. But one sliver of land that you should avoid is the old firehouse at 1732 W. Byron. ‘cuz it’s actually occupied by

Image: Mission Mission Twenty-two vehicles were broken into at a parking garage near Belmont and Sheffield Tuesday morning. Two suspects are in custody thanks to the efforts of an Illinois Masonic Medical Center security guard. And, just before 2AM today, another man was arrested in the parking garage. Detained for trespassing, he just happens to

Southport & Cornelia, as seen on Google Street View. Yet another victim reported being robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning, just a couple of blocks from the scenes of two weekend hold-ups. No one was immediately arrested in today’s incident. Today’s robbery and warrant arrest, plotted in red. Blue markslocations of this weekend’s robberies and

The locations of this weekend’s robberies in Wrigleyville andthe location of the arrest of one suspect. Two women were targeted in separate Wrigleyville robberies this weekend. A suspect in one of the muggings has been taken into custody. It is not known if the cases are related. Sunday’s victim was robbed by a man who

ABOVE: Targeted patrols have driven this year’s robbery count to more “normal” levels.BELOW: The month-by-month robbery counts forWrigleyville and Boystown since January 2001.The 10 worst months are red, the 10 best are green.SOURCE: City of Chicago Data Portal The number of street robberies reported in Wrigleyville and Boystown last month dropped again compared to 2014, according to

A man who hailed a cab in Boystown wound up carjacking the vehicle when it reached the intersection of Marine Drive and Gunnison in Uptown early Thursday morning. Police were flagged down by the Yellow Cab driver at 904 W. Lawrence around 2:45AM. There, he told them that the passenger implied that he had a

Spanish Gangster Disciples tag, 4000 block Greenview. #3 on map. Many were surprised to hear about an attempted gang shooting in a normally-quiet section of Lake View on Monday. But, CWB has learned, one of the arrestees in that incident told police that he came to the area specifically because he knew that rival gang members

A woman is buried in cereal during the 2012 TBOX. (Festa Parties) The TBOX Christmas bar crawl returns to Wrigleyville on December 13 and 19th district police leaders are demanding more help from the event’s organizer. CWB tallied 11 TBOX arrests last year. That’s not great, but it was better than 2012 when one man got stabbed

Police continue their investigation of Monday evening’s gang-related attempted shooting and other incidents in nearby Lake View. Here is the latest information that we have gathered: Investigators’ current prevailing theory is that the attempted shooting may be connected to the shooting of a gang member elsewhere in the city two years ago. Police believe some

(L to R): Garcia, Andrews, and Cazadero. (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office, Facebook) UPDATED 5:28PM: Added alderman’s email statement. UPDATE NOV 7 1:36PM: Updated bond information and minor details in this post. UPDATE NOV 7: A further update is now posted. ——– Here’s an update on last night’s alleged gang incident in nearby Lake View. A member of