Year: 2015

At least three more local businesses have been victimized in overnight burglaries since Sunday as a month-long spree shows no signs of slowing down. Restaurants have been particularly hard-hit in the crime wave. The owner of Ceres’ Table, 3124 N. Broadway, became the latest victim at 4:40 this morning when a single burglar busted through

After CWB Chicago reported large swaths of gang tags along the lakefront to the city for removal on July 16, the city closed our service requests out and marked them complete—even though they had done absolutely nothing. We reported on the lack of effort over the weekend. Now, we can happily report, the tags have

With a 16th mugging victim in an ongoing spree reporting that he was beaten and robbed shortly before sunrise today, local alderman Tom Tunney has done one of his classic flip-flops. Talking to ABC7’s Rob Elgas about the robbery spree yesterday, Tunney said, [The police have] got plenty of resources out here, no one can

At least 15 people have been attacked and robbed on our neighborhood’s streets since the Fourth of July—sharply reversing a successful anti-robbery campaign that was launched in 2013 by recently-transferred district police commander Elias Voulgaris. Last night, two of this month’s victims told us their stories: Beaten & Robbed On Halsted Strip At 1:17AM last

UPDATE 6:13PM – Chicago police just issued a community alert to warn of a robbery pattern in our neighborhood. ——————- Two offenders who hid in the vestibule area of a Boystown 3-flat beat and robbed a man as he returned home early Sunday. No one is in custody. The victim told police that the men

Top: Our city service request marked “closed.”Middle: Our photo of gang symbols at Marovitz Golf Course on July 14.Bottom: The same location on July 20, after the tags were “removed.” For the second summer in a row, CWB Chicago editors last week documented significant gang tag activity along the lakefront north of Belmont Harbor. And,

Golfers teeing off at Marovitz Golf Course are unaware of the gang tag war that lies steps away. A man and a teenage boy were stabbed Friday night near the Sydney Marovitz Golf Course at 3600 N. Recreation Drive. Both victims walked into Illinois Masonic Medical Center to seek treatment at 11:15PM. The 16-year-old was

The burglar(s) in action at Lakeview Smoke Shop (top) and Clark St. Sports.Images:ABC7Chicago A spree of local business burglaries is rolling into its third week. Salon Envy at 2658 N. Halsted became the latest shop to be victimized. Employees found the back door popped open as they arrived for work Friday morning. Detectives are reviewing

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s neighborhood CVS Pharmacy was robbed this morning for the third time in 2015. Police were called to the store, 4051 N. Lincoln, around 4 o’clock after a man pulled a knife on the cashier and made off with the cash drawer contents. The victim described the offender as a 40-year-old white man,

The slow wheels of justice ground out another conviction Thursday in the case of two women who were robbed in Boystown after the 2013 Pride Parade. Guajardo (Cook Co Sheriff’s Dept) Gravielia G. Guajardo, 35, received a 5-year prison term in exchange for pleading guilty to one count of robbery. Off-set by two years of time

Tunney Some folks over in the Southport area are none-too-pleased with a recently announced plan to open a transitional living center for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction in their neighborhood. The residential portion of the plan by Rosecrance Health Network requires a special use permit because the location at Waveland and Ashland is

Morgan The second of two men charged in a December 2013 robbery binge around our neighborhood has received two 12-year prison sentences to be served concurrently. Ronald Morgan, 25, entered his plea on Wednesday. His co-defendant, 24-year-old Charlie Allen, pleaded guilty in January and received an identical sentence. The duo was accused of robbing a

Grant (top) and Perkins. (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Dept) Two men have been charged with the beating and robbery of a 25-year-old Wrigleyville man on June 7. Joseph L. Grant, 23, and Robert Perkins, 20, were arrested at the Addison Red Line station shortly after the incident, police said. The victim told police that two men