Month: July 2015

A 17-year-old Lincoln Park boy was reportedly stabbed during an armed robbery in Oz Park early Wednesday morning. Police were called at 4:30AM after the teen showed up at St. Joseph’s Hospital with a stab wound to his leg. The boy initially refused to tell hospital workers where the stabbing took place, but he eventually

A flurry of fake $100 bills has been popping up in small retail shops across the area and one man with a distinctive sense of fashion has struck at least five times. Multiple victims have described him as a black man who wears a hard hat and yellow construction vest. His most recent appearance came

UPDATE DECEMBER 13, 2015: The photo that formerly accompanied this story has been removed at the victim’s request. ———– A Chicago man whose jaw was broken in at least two places after he got hit in the face with a brick following Sunday’s Pride Parade is in good spirits after undergoing reconstructive surgery. “The surgery

A woman was punched in the head and robbed in Wrigleyville late Wednesday night. Earlier, a man was beaten up and robbed in Lincoln Park. No one is in custody. Just before midnight in Wrigleyville, a woman told police that an unknown man punched her in the head and took her Galaxy phone as she

It’s one of the weirdest stories we’ve reported all year. And things just went from bad to really bad for the man charged with robbing a bowling alley of cheese fries at gunpoint. Originally charged with armed robbery/handgun and unlawful use of a weapon, 20-year-old Ambassador E. Harney now faces six new charges: Aggravated unlawful