Year: 2015

A three-time convicted violent felon who was released from prison on parole this summer is charged with firing a handgun on Clark Street as the Cubs victory celebration wound down last night. Dolton resident Hoytuan Pierce, 31, is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and with being an armed habitual criminal, according to court

One man faces weapons charges today after firing a gun near Clark and Cornelia in the waning hours of last night’s Cubs victory party in Wrigleyville. Two people are listed as victims of the aggravated assault which unfolded at 11:33PM after what had been a relatively uneventful celebration of the Cubs’ division championship win. See

Woods. Banned from “youth” shelter. “I’m banned from the Center on Halsted and now The Crib [youth shelter in Boystown] and now here! This is bogus.” That’s what a very mature-looking 25-year-old Marquise L. Woods told police who approached him after Inter-American Magnet School administrators reported seeing him playing video games on the school steps

Image: The Heckler While the crowds looked relatively tame around Wrigley Field after last night’s Cubs victory, CWB Chicago has learned that, at least as far as arrest numbers go, those looks were deceiving. We estimate that between 10 and 14 persons were arrested by officers assigned to the Wrigley Field detail before, during, and

Ald. Tunney It has been a month since Boystown resident Ted Rosinus wrote a letter to his alderman, Tom Tunney, with a few courteously-presented questions about the alderman’s response to crime and the seeming lack of results. Five days later, Tunney’s chief of staff, Bennett Lawson, told Rosinus in an email that a response was

A career Cook County prosecutor this weekend become one of our neighborhood’s newest robbery victims. The Assistant State’s Attorney called police from a 7-Eleven store near Clark and Southport at 3:40AM Saturday to report being beaten up and robbed of his belongings nearby. He was not immediately able to identify the exact scene of the

This week, we published a Lakeview woman’s account of being mugged near Halsted and Oakdale as she walked to work on Tuesday. With her alleged attacker now behind bars, her Dad says “Thanks.” I’m the Dad of the young woman that was attacked Tuesday morning on Oakdale. My wife and I live in Michigan. When

A 23-year-old South Side man has been charged with three of the recent robberies reported in Lakeview and Roscoe Village. Darryl D. Walton of the 7000 block of S. Eberhart faces three counts of robbery, one count of receiving or possessing a stolen vehicle, reckless driving, and leaving the scene of an accident. He was

An  SUV used in multiple robberies this week is trapped by a CPD unit at Belmont and  Lake Shore Drive today. UPDATE OCTOBER 9, 10:42AM: Robbery charges have been filed. Full report HERE. ————- An hour-long manhunt in Boystown overnight ended just hours ago with the arrest of a suspect in at least two of

Two more women were robbed Wednesday morning in Lakeview, including one three blocks from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home. At least six women and one child have now been robbed in Lakeview and Roscoe Village since late Monday night. At 6:15 this morning, two offenders emerged from an alley in the 4000 block of N Hermitage,

Garry McCarthy (L) and Rahm Emanuel. (Visual approximation) The Chicago City Council held its annual police “budget hearing” on Tuesday. It’s really more of a 5-minute grandstanding session for each of the city’s aldermen to get some good soundbites in. Anywho, since it’s in the news this morning, here are a couple of thoughts and,

A 14-year-old boy was robbed in broad daylight Tuesday afternoon less than a half-block from where a retired Chicago policewoman was robbed the night before. No one is in custody in either crime. CWB Chicago reported the boy’s story in our Twitter feed as it happened. The teen was walking home from the nearby Addison Brown