Month: December 2015

This winter’s relatively warm weather is extending criminals’ outdoor work season. And local residents are paying the price. • A resident of the 3500 block of N. Wilton in Boystown reported that they were targeted in an attempted strong arm robbery last night. The victim told police that the offender was sitting on their first

A parolee—free since September after serving 3 years in prison for robbing the 7-Eleven store at 3801 N. Western in 2012—is back in jail after allegedly robbing the 7-Eleven store at 3801 N. Western this week. Clark A. Garrett is charged with one count of aggravated robbery while indicating presence of a firearm in connection

The FBI now says a second person was involved in last Thursday’s robbery of the TCF Bank at 4355 N. Sheridan Road. Newly-released surveillance images show the female bank robber leaving the scene on foot with a man who the FBI says was “also involved” in the hold-up that netted $858 cash. The man is

Chicago police came very close to catching a group of suspected burglars Tuesday afternoon in Boystown. Police (center) search for burglary suspects in Boystown Tuesday. Two citizens who share an alley in the 600 blocks of Aldine and Buckingham reported suspicious activity around 1PM. First, a woman in the 600 block of Aldine reported that

At least one and possibly two crews of thieves posing as charity fundraisers struck Boystown hard on Monday afternoon as they made their way along Broadway and Belmont, targeting customers inside cafes and restaurants—including 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney’s flagship Ann Sather location. Image: Change Gangs Victims discovered that they had lost phones and wallets

UPDATE DECEMBER 16, 2015 – The FBI has now identified a man who was “also involved” in the robbery. Details HERE. ———————– Police are looking for a woman who robbed the Uptown TCF Bank at 4355 N. Sheridan Road on December 10. Investigators say the offender approached a teller at the bank around 5:20 p.m.

A judge this afternoon set bail at $1 million for an Evanston man charged with participating Wrigleyville’s wild Sunday morning gunfight. Ralph Banks, 19, is charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm. Banks was paroled on October 6th after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for aggravated unlawful use of

Banks (Chicago Police Department) A 19-year-old Evanston man is charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm in connection with Sunday morning’s gun battle in Wrigleyville. It is the second time the man has faced firearms charges this year. Ralph Banks was arrested by police who pursued him from the shooting scene

A 23-year-old Roscoe Village man is charged with criminal sexual abuse in connection with an incident during Saturday’s TBOX bar crawl in Wrigleyville. Sudhanshu Agrawal is accused of putting his hand into a woman’s pants outside of the Red Ivy bar around 1:35PM. His arrest was caught on tape by @the1stMikeC, a local resident and

UPDATE 9:01AM: Police have now recovered a third handgun at the scene. It was lying between two homes in the 1100 block of Patterson. ——- One man was shot as dozens of rounds were fired during a wild gunfight less than a block from Wrigley Field early Sunday. One shot was fired by police who

The annual Twelve Bars of Xmas bar crawl resulted in six arrests Saturday and early Sunday near the Clark Street bar strip in Wrigleyville. Most seriously, a man was arrested after allegedly threatening people with a knife. Despite organizers’ claims of hiring 150 private “security personnel” for the event, 19th district resources were depleted twice

At least three separate muggings were reported in our neighborhood Saturday and Sunday. And a fourth person was robbed at gunpoint in Wrigleyville last Wednesday. In the most recent case, a Lincoln Park man was found beaten and bleeding in front of Roscoe’s Tavern, 3356 N. Halsted in Boystown, after he was attacked and robbed

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider us…flattened! Some local politicians, forced to deal with our truthful crime reporting, love to bad-mouth us. But it now appears that at least one of those aldermen is using us as a reliable source. Tom Tunney, who represents the Wrigleyville and Boystown neighborhoods, published his weekly