Month: June 2015

UPDATE DECEMBER 13, 2015: The photo that formerly accompanied this story has been removed at the victim’s request. ——————- The Chicago man seen here is scheduled for reconstructive surgery today after an offender hit him in the face with a brick following Sunday’s Chicago Pride Parade. Friends of the man have set up a web

Jones (IMAGE: Cook Co. Sheriff’s Dept) UPDATE 7:28PM JUNE 30: Today, Destiny Jones, 18, was charged with possessing/carrying a firearm. Bail is set at $1,000. Court records list her as Jones Corie Destiny, but we’re guessing that’s a mix-up. Our original story follows. ——————- What’s the emoji for stupid? Charges are pending against a woman

Video has emerged of police removing a man from a vehicle after he drove through a barricade and into oncoming marchers. (VIDEO LINK HERE) The video, which runs a bit over two minutes, was posted on Youtube by Ken Simon. The footage begins moments after the car came to a halt as first responders are trying

Image: Daily Mail UPDATE JUNE 29—Video of first responders taking the man into custody is out. (LINK) ——- Police detained a man who drove his car through the middle of the Chicago Pride Parade Sunday afternoon. One police officer and a medical worker were slightly injured in the 2:40PM incident. The driver was treated at

At least six people are in custody and one gun has been recovered after a wild melee broke out near the lakefront baseball fields and tennis courts in the 3700 block of Recreation Drive on Saturday. Police responded to the area, which is a popular hangout for gangbangers, around 9:10PM after multiple callers reported a

A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on a vehicle near Lake View High School Saturday evening. A man inside the car was shot in the right arm and his girlfriend suffered injuries from flying glass and debris. The targeted vehicle continued traveling eastbound after the gunfire, colliding with another car before pulling to a

Image: Emily D. Brett A series of reported and alleged robberies in the neighborhood and nearby areas: • A woman was punched in the face and robbed of her gold purse near Fullerton and Geneva Terrace in the Lincoln Park neighborhood this morning. A passer-by stumbled across the woman around 3:41AM and called police. The

Image: Scott Montgomery on YouTube Boystown resident Scott Montgomery got a good scare when an unknown man played with the lock of his Elaine Place apartment shortly after midnight Saturday. Montgomery caught images of the man on video. “When he heard more than one voice [inside the apartment] he left,” Montgomery told us. Other suspicious activity

A 27-year-old woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted in a Wrigleyville bar this week was initially uncooperative with responding officers, police said. While bar patrons told police that they had detained a suspect early Wednesday morning, officers say the alleged victim refused to sign a complaint and then left the scene without giving investigators any

When a Sheffield Avenue house caught on fire at 4AM Monday, no investigation was conducted. Fires in alleys are “not uncommon,” the homeowner was told. But when DNAInfo Chicago came into possession of a neighbor’s surveillance video from that night, arson investigators were called in. The video shows two men crouching behind the soon-to-be engulfed

During this spring’s aldermanic run-off election in Uptown, the owner of Papa Ray’s Pizza & Wings starred in a “crime is down” ad piece for incumbent alderman James Cappleman. “My profits are up over 20%,” Matthew Villareal beamed. Those profits will be down slightly after one of Villareal’s delivery drivers was robbed of cash and

A serial shoplifter who was arrested in Boystown last month after shoving 18 sticks of deodorant into his pants while still on parole for pilfering 14 bottles of shampoo is back in prison. Gamalier Ortega, 32, pleaded guilty Friday to retail theft charges in connection with the May 22 deodorant heist from CVS Pharmacy, 3101

This weekend’s Pride Fest street party took a not-so-prideful turn for the owner of several Boystown bars. Mark Liberson, owner of Halsted Street mainstays Hydrate, Replay, Halsted’s Bar & Grill, and Elixir told his Facebook friends that someone “robbed” the Halsted’s Bar & Grill beer tent at Pride Fest during a Saturday rain storm. It’s