Year: 2015

Holton (Ill. Dept of Corrections) Leon Holton, 18, has received a 6-year sentence after pleading guilty to burglary in connection with a Boystown car break-in last autumn. An observant resident called police on the morning of October 19 to report seeing two men pulling on door handles near Pine Grove and Addison. When police arrived,

Sellers (Cook Co Sheriff) Police have made an arrest in connection with the January crash-and-grab of a Best Buy store near Clark and Diversey. The suspect is a convicted felon who most recently found himself paroled after serving just 6 months of a 7-year prison sentence for armed robbery and aggravated battery. Jawon Sellers, 24,

Chicago police this weekend issued an alert to warn residents of a burglary pattern in nearby Lakeview and Lincoln Park. According to the alert, two homes were targeted by a burglar who entered through unlocked doors or windows. One of the victims was home when the burglary took place, as we reported last Sunday. Incidents

L to R: Williamson, Perry Two of the five men who were charged in connection with the theft of 24 catalytic converters last month have reached plea deals. Mychael Williamson, 18, and Angelo Perry, 22, each pleaded guilty to one count of theft of lost or mislaid property on Monday. Both were sentenced to one

The December beating and robbery of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s son was tagged “confidential” by the city, which prevented the incident from appearing in the city’s vaunted crime “transparency” site. That’s the word from Tom Schenk Jr, the city’s chief data officer. CWB reported exclusively last week that the Emanuel robbery had gone missing from

Wanted.  Chicago police have just issued a community alert warning the public about a man who has robbed two businesses at gunpoint in our area. Both crimes were first reported here on CWB. The man is wanted for robbing Plato’s Closet resale shop at Broadway and Diversey over the weekend as well as robbing a

Two days after CWB revealed that the robbery of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s own son did not appear on the city’s lauded crime statistics “transparency” site, the city “fixed” it. In a lonely Tweet Friday afternoon, Chicago Chief Data Officer Tom Schenk Jr wrote “We ID’d the issue and fixed it. It’s now online with

Surveillance photo of the suspect robbing Plato’s Closet on Saturday.(Chicago Police Department) UPDATE 9:09PM: Police have issued a community alert regarding this crime. Our original report follows, with surveillance photo added. ————- The hustle and bustle of a major 3-way intersection did not dissuade a man from robbing a Lake View clothing store at gunpoint

A “Fang Banger Dual Blade Vampire Lover’sFolding Pocket Knife.” $10 on Ebay. A man charged with brandishing a knife at the Center on Halsted earlier this month is the same man who was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill a security guard there on January 20th. Brian Conner of Uptown is charged with aggravated assault

UPDATE FEB 21, 2:15PM—City Chief Data Officer Tom Schenk Jr. stated via Twitter Friday that “we [identified] the issue and fixed it.” The Emanuel robbery is now online with another 114 crimes that were “omitted in the past 8 years” due to the glitch, Schenk said. We have asked Schenk for more information about what