Year: 2015

A woman was robbed at gunpoint of her mink coat by two men in Boystown late last night, police said. No one was injured and no one is in custody. The victim was near Broadway and Buckingham around 11:15PM when two men approached her and one produced a black semi-automatic handgun. Both men fled southbound

Last night, local alderman Tom Tunney stood up and walked out in the middle of our neighborhood’s monthly community policing meeting, declaring its 45-minute length to be “a long one” as he headed toward the exit. Earlier in the meeting, 19th district community policing (CAPS) Sgt. Jason Clark announced changes to the community meeting format.

Criminal sexual assaults, aggravated assaults, and motor vehicle thefts have shown the greatest year-over-year increases in Lakeview as well as the 44th ward according to analysis of city crime data by CWB Chicago editors. In fact, more criminal sexual assaults were reported here through October 15 than in any other year in the public database,

Motor vehicle thefts, which are up 20% over last year in our neighborhood, went up a little bit more Tuesday after a resident and his girlfriend had their cars stolen by a group of men. One of the cars was quickly ditched in a West Lakeview yard. The other vehicle remained missing this morning. Police

The living has been interesting in the 3400 block of N. Janssen this week. It started with three people getting robbed at gunpoint and one getting pistol-whipped early Sunday. Then on Monday, a woman who lives just a few doors down from the robbery scene returned home from work to find her apartment burglarized. “iPad

Three occupants of a Lakeview coach house were robbed at gunpoint late on Halloween night by four or five offenders who brandished at least one firearm. One of the victims was pistol-whipped, police said. According to statements by a witness, up to five men entered the coach house in the 3400 block of N. Janssen

Newly-released Chicago police records show that two people were robbed at knife-point 24-hours apart at the exact same spot in Wrigleyville last weekend. No one is in custody. Both victims were mugged between the Cubby Bear Lounge, 1059 W. Addison, and the Wrigleyville Taco Bell. One attack took place at 2 o’clock last Saturday morning

A woman who called police after seeing an unknown person’s hands sticking through her roommate’s bedroom window last night became the latest local resident to report strange activities as a month-long streak of burglaries claims more victims here. The creepy, curious hands were not able to grab anything during the incident, which was reported at

A coachhouse in the 1400 block of W. Diversey is boarded up after an October 17 arson fire. Chicago police are investigating links between a number of fires in west Lakeview and North Center after coachhouses and garages have been burned in recent weeks.  Three cases have been officially classified as arson. While no police

The local alderman who just 9 months ago promised citizens that police officers will transfer into our district every month “until we are back to the staffing level that we were [in 2012]” is singing a much different tune today. In justifying his vote yesterday for the city property tax hike and 2016 budget, 44th Ward

Making it difficult to report crimes is a great way to keep Chicago’s impossibly low crime rates heading in a downward direction. Just when we thought we’d heard every hoop and hurdle that can be thrown in a citizen’s way as they try to file a report, we caught wind of a doozy. Twitter DM

Chicago police today issued an alert in which they warn of an armed robbery pattern that includes two robberies at gunpoint in our neighborhood and nearby Lincoln Park.. According to the alert, three similar robberies have been reported in which multiple offenders approach victims on the street while displaying or implying that they have a

Marshall J. Howard is back in prison. It’s his third trip up the river for burglary since 2000, according to state records. It’s also his longest sentence: 6 years. Howard (Ill. Dept of Corrections) Howard pleaded guilty to entering an occupied Lakeview home and stealing a cell phone at 1PM on September 16. When the