Year: 2015

WTXL Developing: In addition to the robbery at gunpoint reported below, the CVS Pharmacy at 4051 N. Lincoln—about five blocks from the mayor’s home—was robbed at knifepoint at 5:15AM today. It is the second time that store has been robbed this year. A CVS clerk told police that a white or Hispanic man brandished a

Surveillance images of the man preparing to rob a WrigleyvilleSubway sandwich shop on Saturday. (Chicago Police) UPDATE FEBRUARY 17 5:25PM — Lake County authorities have taken the suspect into custody. —————————— Chicago and suburban police investigators late Monday identified a suspect in the armed robberies of two Wrigleyville and Boystown-area Subway restaurants as the man’s

Surveillance images of the suspect. (Chicago Police Department) Chicago police late yesterday issued a community alert to warn of an armed robber who targeted at least two local businesses last week. Early Sunday, we reported that cops were investigating connections between three robberies and one theft at area businesses last week. Police are publicly connecting two of

Google Street View UPDATE FEBRUARY 16: Chicago police have now issued an alert that publicly connects two of the cases listed in our original report below. ————– Wrigleyville’s Subway restaurant was robbed Saturday afternoon by a man armed with a knife, just days after a different Subway shop was robbed here by a man armed

Members (Cook Co Sheriff’s Dept) A man arrested while allegedly trying to use a credit card stolen from a woman at Roscoe’s Tavern to make hundreds of dollars worth of purchases at a Boystown convenience store this weekend was suspected of trying to pickpocket another woman at an Old Town bar last May. Jimmy Members,

Smith (Illinois Dept of Corrections) A wave of robberies rolled through nearby Lake View early on September 14, 2013, as five victims reported being robbed and sometimes beaten by a groups of two to six men. On Friday, an 18-year-old pleaded guilty to being involved in two of those crimes. Thomas Smith received two four-year

BYC director Imani Rupert (L) and general counsel Michelle Wetzelpresent to a 2014 Southeast Lake View Neighbors meeting. (DNAInfo) One year after a neighborhood group voted 41-21 against supporting a zoning variance for the Broadway Youth Center (BYC), the same group Monday voted unanimously to support the center in an upcoming renewal hearing. BYC ultimately

UPDATE 12:43AM FEB 11 – The promotion list is out. Nine 19th district cops are leaving to become detectives, not eight as previously reported below. ——— The Chicago Police Department this week announces the promotions of 100 police officers into its detective division and sources within the department have told CWB that a good number of

The Chicago Police Department is not allowing any officers to transfer into our 19th district this month, according to the Second City Cop blog, even though manpower here is on the cusp of an all-time low. The elimination of transfer opportunities comes despite local Alderman Tom Tunney’s promise on January 16 that transfers into our

Roscoe’s on the left, 7-Eleven on the right. (Google) Now THIS is one stupid criminal. A Boystown bar pickpocket was arrested this morning while attempting to use the victim’s credit card to make $700 worth of transactions at a nearby convenience store. Officers were flagged down at 2:30AM near Belmont and Clark by a woman

Two men robbed a woman at gunpoint on Wrigleyville’s Clark Street bar strip early this morning. No one was injured and no arrests have been made. Police met the victim across from Al’s Italian Beef near Clark and Sheffield at 2:10AM. There, she reported that two men approached her and one produced a handgun. She