Month: February 2015

Members (Cook Co Sheriff’s Dept) A man arrested while allegedly trying to use a credit card stolen from a woman at Roscoe’s Tavern to make hundreds of dollars worth of purchases at a Boystown convenience store this weekend was suspected of trying to pickpocket another woman at an Old Town bar last May. Jimmy Members,

Smith (Illinois Dept of Corrections) A wave of robberies rolled through nearby Lake View early on September 14, 2013, as five victims reported being robbed and sometimes beaten by a groups of two to six men. On Friday, an 18-year-old pleaded guilty to being involved in two of those crimes. Thomas Smith received two four-year

BYC director Imani Rupert (L) and general counsel Michelle Wetzelpresent to a 2014 Southeast Lake View Neighbors meeting. (DNAInfo) One year after a neighborhood group voted 41-21 against supporting a zoning variance for the Broadway Youth Center (BYC), the same group Monday voted unanimously to support the center in an upcoming renewal hearing. BYC ultimately

UPDATE 12:43AM FEB 11 – The promotion list is out. Nine 19th district cops are leaving to become detectives, not eight as previously reported below. ——— The Chicago Police Department this week announces the promotions of 100 police officers into its detective division and sources within the department have told CWB that a good number of

The Chicago Police Department is not allowing any officers to transfer into our 19th district this month, according to the Second City Cop blog, even though manpower here is on the cusp of an all-time low. The elimination of transfer opportunities comes despite local Alderman Tom Tunney’s promise on January 16 that transfers into our

Roscoe’s on the left, 7-Eleven on the right. (Google) Now THIS is one stupid criminal. A Boystown bar pickpocket was arrested this morning while attempting to use the victim’s credit card to make $700 worth of transactions at a nearby convenience store. Officers were flagged down at 2:30AM near Belmont and Clark by a woman

Two men robbed a woman at gunpoint on Wrigleyville’s Clark Street bar strip early this morning. No one was injured and no arrests have been made. Police met the victim across from Al’s Italian Beef near Clark and Sheffield at 2:10AM. There, she reported that two men approached her and one produced a handgun. She

Chicago police are investigating the attempted theft of an entire ATM from a Lake View high-rise overnight. The thieves didn’t get very far. Officers were called to the Park Place Tower, 655 Irving Park Road, around 6:30 this morning after someone stumbled across the machine, abandoned in a parking garage stairwell. Police say the machine

After a few relatively quiet months, things have picked up at the Center on Halsted (COH), 3656 N. Halsted. Love Lost Police responded to the COH on January 22 after receiving multiple reports of a woman “pulling on a male’s privates” outside a third-floor basketball game there. The alleged “pulling” was apparently not the friendly

Snowfall makes the job easy for area burglars. Year after year, police report, burglars are found targeting homes that are surrounded by undisturbed snow. No footprints? No shoveling? That means nobody’s home and the residence shoots to the top of likely targets. Before this weekend’s snow fell, a series of burglaries were reported in and

Here it is. CWB’s third annual list of the most robbery-filled blocks in Wrigleyville and Boystown. Muggings were down 34% in the neighborhood last year, due in large part to strategic patrols by 19th district officers. But a local police zone that covers the center of Wrigleyville and Boystown—beat 1924—still managed to rank #3 citywide