Month: August 2015

A career criminal who was once charged with using a fake $100 bill to buy Culver’s milk shakes is now charged with theft by deception after he allegedly sold three previously-used Cubs tickets on the street during a recent night game. Prosecutors say Raymond Barnett of West Englewood got his hands on three used game

Two convicted felons are charged with robbing a Lakeview man near Racine and Roscoe early Saturday morning. A third suspect remains at large. Charged now with robbery are Titus Meadows, who previously received a 4-year sentence for an aggravated robbery in 2010, and Joshua Tucker, who did time for burglary. They are both free on

To the surprise of few neighbors, DNAInfo Chicago yesterday reported that more people are cited for public urination under the Addison Red Line tracks than at any other location in the city. While cash-strapped Chicago will certainly continue to address the issue with revenue-raising $300 citations, other cities around the world have taken a different

Two robbery suspects are in custody after Chicago police tracked a mugging victim’s cell phone pings to a yard near Boystown’s Halsted strip. A third offender remains at large. The victim called police at 1:08AM Saturday after three men jumped, beat, and robbed him near Roscoe and Racine. Officers followed his phone’s pings to a

Two Pizza Hut employees were robbed as they closed the store at 3009 N. Clark Street early Thursday. The victims told police that a pair of offenders brandished a stun gun and demanded their cash as the workers left the store for the night around 1:30AM. Both offenders were described as black men. One wore

Prepare yourself for what must be the most blatantly misleading crime statistic to be released by a local politician this year. Uptown Alderman James Cappleman on Tuesday Tweeted a “5-year trend of violent crime in Uptown for [the] month of July, when violent crime tends to be highest.” Just look at that declining bar graph!

Most CWB Chicago readers know that we believe that Chicago Pride Parade estimates are a bunch of hooey. Two years ago, we broke down the math and showed that it is physically impossible for a million people to fit along the parade route. We even cited an executive of Chicago Special Events Management who called