Month: May 2015

VIDEO LINK HERE Video has begun to emerge of Saturday morning’s looting of the Boystown Circle K convenience store at Halsted and Addison. As CWB reported exclusively here yesterday, a Chicago police officer who happened upon the scene shortly after 4a.m. reported “100 people looting” the store. This video, which was first posted on Facebook

UPDATE MAY 31: Video of the incident’s early moments has emerged. —————————— Strange things were definitely afoot at the Boystown Circle K this morning as police happened upon the store as it was being looted by an estimated 100 people. At least one person was injured in the 3:55AM raid, which broke up when offenders

Hospitalized with injuries suffered during an attempted robbery overnight, a man who remains at Illinois Masonic Medical Center at this hour will suffer a second disgrace. The Chicago Police Department, despite fully understanding that his injuries were suffered in an attempted robbery, has categorized the crime against him as a simple battery—the same crime category

A man is in custody after allegedly burglarizing two condominiums in a neighborhood high rise Wednesday afternoon. Police were called to 3550 N. Lake Shore Drive at 2PM after building management reported observing a burglar on surveillance video. Officers arrived quickly and arrested the man in a unit on the 19th floor. A second unit

@DavidSpearman on Twitter Nothing says “fun” in Boystown like a trail of bloody footprints. Several neighborhood residents called 911 after sunrise Monday morning to report a trail of blood droops and thick, bloody footprints along a sidewalk in the 3200 block of Halsted Street. It’s not clear exactly what happened to the person who sprung

A woman who refused to talk to a stranger on the street found herself on the wrong end of that man’s stun gun early Wednesday morning. The suspect is in custody. The victim told police that a man followed her and tried to strike up a conversation on Sheffield just north of Diversey shortly after

Newly-acquired emails raise questions about local Alderman Tom Tunney’s true feelings about the troubled Chicago Pride Parade. And other city filings show that parade organizers submitted their plan to have the 2015 parade in Boystown nearly six months ago—with absolutely no changes from the 2014 event—even as local politicians continued to claim that they were

Awakened by screams for help, a neighborhood man rushed to his back porch overlooking the alley of Sheffield between Roscoe and School around 2:30AM on Saturday. The alley and parking lot of Redmond’s Ale House, where Saturday’sattack unfolded. (Google) There, he saw an “extremely violent and brutal” 2-on-1 attack unfolding. The victim—described as a “kid”

Two men reported being pepper sprayed by groups of offenders in separate incidents along Broadway early today. At least one of the victims was also robbed. Around 4:20AM, a 24-year-old man told police that a group of three offenders robbed him of $250 and then sprayed him with a chemical agent near Broadway and Briar.

A Saturday morning home invasion is the latest in a series of crimes in which local residents have awakened to find intruders inside apartments on Kenmore Avenue. Police have handled at least four calls this week in which Kenmore residents woke up to find unknown persons in their apartments. Today’s incident came to light around

UPDATE MAY 22 12:11AM— The victim in this case has contacted CWB. She states that the offender was 5’9″ tall and about 170 pounds. The description we provided below was based on the reporting officers’ description of the offender. ————————– A 28-year-old Lake View woman was targeted in an attempted robbery less than two blocks