Month: August 2015

Robbery charges are pending today after a man allegedly threatened workers with a knife during a shoplifting attempt Friday evening at Sports Authority, 3134 N. Clark. Police searched the area for the suspect—described as a black man in his 40’s, 190 pounds, wearing a black baseball cap with white “sparkles” and khaki cargo shorts. They

Two men armed with semi-automatic handguns robbed a pedestrian in the neighborhood early today. The victim told police that he was in the 3100 block of Racine at 4 o’clock this morning when a small, tan Toyota pulled up and both occupants produced handguns while demanding his valuables. After getting “maybe $20” and the man’s

As the neighborhood’s summer crime spree rolls on—and the frequently-touted police “entertainment district detail” continues to have summer nights off—police have responded to at least two more muggings in Boystown since Wednesday afternoon. Most recently, a man was beaten and robbed at Halsted and Brompton around 4:15 this morning after enjoying a night in the

UPDATE: Additional video released by the theater to DNAInfo Chicago subsequent to our report shows the man taking laptops and other equipment valued at $3,500 after following someone into the building. ———————– A long-time North Side improv group says they want to identify the man who walked into their unlocked theater Saturday afternoon and took

An Uptown woman reported that she was groped by a man as she jogged in the North Center neighborhood around 6 o’clock this morning. The victim said that she was jogging in the 4200 block of Damen when the offender came up to her, grabbed her, and then groped her before running away. She described

A few news stories that have been sent our way from readers recently: University College of London researchers say that street lights do not reduce crime. That research shows less than 1 percent of all nighttime traffic collisions occurred on streets where the lights had been switched off. And overall, the statistics showed no link