Month: April 2015

A 24-year-old woman became Uptown’s third homicide victim of the year overnight, shot dead as she sat in a vehicle on Broadway, about a block north of Montrose. Incredibly, the gunfire was heard over a mile away by officers sitting outside of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home. Things are not looking good for Uptown, which recorded

Google Two offenders robbed a man at gunpoint as he walked out of a neighborhood Walgreens Tuesday morning. No one was injured. There have been no arrests. The hold-up occurred as the victim walked from the Walgreens at the intersection of Halsted, Clark, and Barry around 6:15AM. Two black men—one in a black hoodie, the

Image: Random Letters To The World Sunday evening’s Cubs home opener brought some of the season’s firsts: • The first crime against a Cubs fan was reported 1 hour, 51 minutes before the first pitch as a woman got pick-pocketed at the Addison Red Line. • The first ambulance was summoned for a fan 4

A large group of troublemakers wandered through Wrigleyville and Boystown, leading to a flood of 911 calls reporting everything from street fights to burglaries over the course of an hour Wednesday evening. At least one person was arrested. The first call for help came around 7:40PM when a man called from Kit Kat Lounge, 3700

Surveillance photo of a suspect in the Roosevelt U arson (L); andMiller’s CPD mugshot (R) A Lincoln Park man today has been charged with attempted arson and trespassing for allegedly starting a small fire in a Roosevelt University rest room on April 1. Lavale Miller of the 1000 block of Fullerton has not yet been

Image of a man identified byChicago police as a suspect intwo fires on school campusesthis week. DePaul University public safety officers are believed to have detained a man overnight who is wanted for setting a fire on their campus Thursday as well as a fire on Roosevelt University’s Loop campus on Wednesday. Police and fire

Source: City of Chicago Robberies in Wrigleyville and Boystown are off to a very slow start in 2015, with only 16 cases reported in the first quarter. That is the third-lowest Q1 number since 2001, the first year for which Chicago crime data is available to the public. Street robberies became one of the most

No, this is not an April Fool’s gag. Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications this week cited a fear of terrorism in refusing to release any information whatsoever about past or future Chicago Pride Parades. The response came five months after a Lake View resident requested the documents under Illinois’ Freedom Of Information Act.