Month: April 2016

A 22-year-old man is undergoing surgery at Illinois Masonic Medical Center after being shot on the street near 4200 N. Broadway at 10:20 this morning.  He is listed in critical- to grave condition. Police were not able to positively identify the victim, but an officer said they are “90% sure” that he is a known

A Chicago police officer who was handling a routine matter in the 3600 block of N. Recreation Drive early Sunday morning witnessed shots being fired from a vehicle on nearby Lake Shore Drive—and two of the gunshots were transmitted on the officer’s emergency radio call of “shots fired.” The officer reported that multiple shots were

Middlebrooks (Chicago Police Dept) A 19-year-old man from the Austin neighborhood is accused of robbing another man near the Sheridan Red Line Station early Saturday morning. The victim told police that a man wearing a white ski mask and a black hoodie claimed to have a handgun during the hold-up around 12:30AM. Officers searched the

From top: Crayton, Lawson, Kee Three South Side men face various charges in connection with the March 7 burglary of a Boystown home and the subsequent sale or possession of items taken during the break-in. The 71-year-old victim told police that the back door to her home in the 500 block of W. Hawthorne Place

When you read as many police reports as we do, you see some pretty remarkable stuff. Here are a few recent happenings in the ‘hood that we found “interesting.” Terrones (Chicago Police Dept) Knife To Meet You A 29-year-old East Side man is accused of brandishing a machete during a dust-up on the Wrigleyville bar