Police officers stand guard over a Chicago police car used as a dance floor by spectators at the 2015 Pride Parade. Image: Second City Cop Nearly nine months have passed since the 2014 Chicago Pride Parade unleashed crushing crowds and a post-parade crime wave in our neighborhood, yet city officials still have not announced how
Masked gunmen robbed another area convenience store overnight, the second targeting of a 7-Eleven by similarly-described offenders since last Tuesday. Two men, both armed with revolvers, walked into the 7-Eleven store at Clark and Southport around 3:30AM and demanded the store’s cash. They were last seen running southbound with the contents of both cash registers.
Sas (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) Chicago police have been a roll lately, arresting four alleged robbery offenders in connection with two separate robberies around our neighborhood. Abel Pineda and Maciej Sas are both charged with one count of robbery after allegedly mugging a woman in the 700 block of Aldine last Tuesday evening. A police
Say hello to some of the 17 men and women who got arrested during this weekend’s St. Patrick’s disaster in Wrigleyville. Wadas being taken into custody. (Image: the1stMikeC) • Frank A. “Tony” Wadas of Hoffman Estates was donning a sweatshirt with the word “WHISKEY” stitched on its chest in 3-inch letters for his mugshot after
Two offenders armed with a hammer robbed a man and his friend on a northbound CTA train Sunday evening, only to be tracked down and arrested by officers who followed pings emanating from a victim’s stolen phone. Police were called to the Belmont CTA station around 10:15PM, where the victims reported that the offenders—a man
Don’t be shy, ladies. He could be yours! (Image: the1stmikec) Some 19th district residents experienced lengthy waits for police service Saturday as the bulk of the neighborhood’s officers were dedicated to the annual bar crawl sh!tshow in Wrigleyville. The police department sent no reinforcements to back up our grossly-understaffed district, which has lost nearly 27% of
Chicago police make the first arrest of the day as St. Patrick’s celebrants fill Wrigleyville. (Video: the1stmikec) The annual disaster called “St. Patrick’s Day” in Wrigleyville is underway—and the skids are well-greased for what could become an epic sh!tshow. The warm weather is drawing crowds bigger and earlier than last year. And, while Alderman Tom Tunney
Pearce (Illinois Dept of Corrections) The third and final defendant has been sentenced in one of the most violent and tragic incidents that we’ve ever reported. Asante Pearce, 20, received a 4-year prison sentence this week after pleading guilty to robbery in the June 23, 2013, beating and robbery of two young men near the
Davis One month before earning 9% of the votes in the recent 44th ward aldermanic election, Scott M. Davis was arrested for allegedly crossing into a CTA station after refusing to submit to a random bag screening, according to court records. Police say they tried to examine Davis’ bag near the Merchandise Mart CTA turnstiles shortly
Google Two masked gunmen robbed a Boystown-area convenience store this morning and escaped with nearly $2,000 cash. No one is in custody. Police responded to the 7-Eleven store at Broadway and Waveland around 3:45AM after being tipped off by a silent alarm and 911 callers. Witnesses say the offenders were two black men, about 5’10”
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