Year: 2015

Chicago police are investigating the attempted theft of an entire ATM from a Lake View high-rise overnight. The thieves didn’t get very far. Officers were called to the Park Place Tower, 655 Irving Park Road, around 6:30 this morning after someone stumbled across the machine, abandoned in a parking garage stairwell. Police say the machine

After a few relatively quiet months, things have picked up at the Center on Halsted (COH), 3656 N. Halsted. Love Lost Police responded to the COH on January 22 after receiving multiple reports of a woman “pulling on a male’s privates” outside a third-floor basketball game there. The alleged “pulling” was apparently not the friendly

Snowfall makes the job easy for area burglars. Year after year, police report, burglars are found targeting homes that are surrounded by undisturbed snow. No footprints? No shoveling? That means nobody’s home and the residence shoots to the top of likely targets. Before this weekend’s snow fell, a series of burglaries were reported in and

Here it is. CWB’s third annual list of the most robbery-filled blocks in Wrigleyville and Boystown. Muggings were down 34% in the neighborhood last year, due in large part to strategic patrols by 19th district officers. But a local police zone that covers the center of Wrigleyville and Boystown—beat 1924—still managed to rank #3 citywide

Major crime stats for the week of January 19to 25 as given in Alderman Tom Tunney’snewsletter (top) and on the CPD’s ownwebsite (bottom).  UPDATE FEBRUARY 2, 7:32PM: The crime update in Alderman Tom Tunney’s newsletter is custom created for each of the district’s aldermen on a weekly basis by an officer in the 19th district. According

Cole Both men were charged with armed robbery in our neighborhood. Both were tracked down by cops who followed signals from their victims’ cell phones. And, this week, both received 12-year prison sentences. (Both also have alleged accomplices whose cases have not yet been resolved.) Armed Robbery At Surf And Broadway Malik Cole’s 12-year sentence

GalvestonJustice.com Chicago Police executed another search warrant Thursday morning at the Wrigleyville condo building where a woman last week reported finding a hidden camera in her bedroom vent. It is not yet clear which areas of the property were searched or if the warrant is connected to the hidden camera case. A CWB source reports

Martensen Sometimes, it’s better to just keep your yap shut. Like, say, these times: • James Martensen, 51, of Boystown is charged with assault, criminal trespass to land, and theft of lost or mislaid property after a January 12th incident. According to court records, police met Martensen after he allegedly refused to leave a 7-Eleven

Chicago’s network of red light and speed cameras are supposedly designed to keep children and families safe near schools and parks. But they don’t seem to be slowing down Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s motorcade. Since late November, Emanuel’s 2-car motorcade has received five red light camera violations, including one in which the mayor zips through a

Stop signs on three corners at Southport and Belle Plaine are tagged “SGD” by the Spanish Gangster Disciples street gang. A fresh surge of graffiti placed by rival gangs in the area of Lake View High School has residents and police concerned about possible gang tensions in the area. Attention was drawn to the neighborhood

A robbery victim took this picture of an older model RAV4 get-away car in  Roscoe Village Saturday. Targeted in a Roscoe Village robbery this weekend, a North Center man managed to take a picture of the offenders’ getaway car as they circled the block after jumping him. The victim, who has asked to remain anonymous, wrote

L: Cappleman; R: Tunney Despite being provided irrefutable proof that our 19th district continued to shed police officers last year, the two aldermen who represent our neighborhood continue to falsely boast that manpower is up (thanks to them, of course). The false statements of aldermen Tom Tunney (44th) and James Cappleman (46th) come as fresh