Month: May 2016

He did it AGAIN! Landmark Wrigleyville snack shop Nuts on Clark was burglarized for the third time in two months this morning. Image: NBC Chicago Once again, the burglar pushed through an air conditioning vent and ran out with the store’s cash register. And, once again, police found the cash register lying nearby. Officers Friday

Manpower in the 19th district reached its highest level since autumn 2013 this month according to staffing information released by 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney on Thursday. CWB Chicago received identical staffing numbers independently through a reader’s Freedom of Information Act request on Wednesday. The 19th district’s manpower is now 100 officers short of its

Google UPDATE 9:09PM—Also burglarized overnight were Angela’s Burrito Style at 2556 N. Clark and Cafe Luigi at 2548 N. Clark. The owner of Cafe Luigi said that the thieves left his place empty-handed because he does not keep cash in his register overnight. One freshly-emptied cash register was found in an alley behind the 600

A Cicero man is facing a felony charge after police said he pulled a chunk of a female officer’s hair out by its roots, leaving an “unsightly bald spot” after a recent Cubs game, according to court records. Ellis (Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office) 19th district officers say they saw David M. Ellis and another man

An armed robber targeted two victims within 10 minutes in Wrigleyville and nearby Lakeview Monday evening. No one is in custody and neither victim was injured. In the first case, a woman was approached around 9:30PM by a gunman who demanded her property near Racine and Waveland. The offender fled with a large blue flower-patterned

Carjackers took an Uptown man’s $145,000 sports car at gunpoint Sunday evening. Two hours later, a Lincoln Park man was relieved of his $45,000 Audi by armed carjackers who confronted him in his garage. Two juveniles are in custody in the Lincoln Park case. The Uptown man told police that he was confronted by four

Two men from the Avondale neighborhood are facing charges in connection with an incident after Tuesday’s Cubs game that involved an off-duty Chicago police officer firing his weapon. Mendoza Police say the off-duty officer saw a disturbance in the 3700 block of N. Kenmore around 10:40PM and several people were pointing in the direction of

One man is in custody while another remains at large after a landscaping contractor was robbed of a $900 leaf blower in Lakeview, police said. Brewer (Chicago Police Dept) The 20-year-old landscaper was working in the 3500 block of N. Janssen when he saw a man stealing the leaf blower from his equipment trailer around

One shot was fired by an off-duty Chicago police officer after two men robbed a woman following last night’s Cubs game and then attacked him. No one was shot. Both offenders are in custody. The woman was near the intersection of Grace and Kenmore when she was mugged around 10:40PM, according to a witness. The

Hernandez, Lee, and a Rohm RG10 .22-caliber handgun like the one police say they recovered. A convicted felon who sells cocaine in Boystown and his new girlfriend are facing weapons and other charges after they got into an argument and dropped a handgun that discharged on the Halsted bar strip on Friday evening, police say.

Charges have been filed in connection with the stabbing that left a Boystown man hospitalized early Monday morning. 25-year-old Christopher Holmes of the 500 block of W. Aldine has been charged with one count of aggravated battery/great bodily harm, according to the Chicago Police Department. Police say Holmes and the 28-year-old victim were drinking in

Arson charges have been filed against a Lincoln Park man in connection with a fire that displaced two residents from their home in the 900 block of W. Belmont on Saturday afternoon. Bobby Idaka, 54, has been charged with one count of residential arson for setting fire to a dumpster and furniture that was lying

A 28-year-old man is in critical condition after suffering multiple stab wounds in a Boystown apartment early this morning. An offender, who is known to the victim, is in police custody. Officers were called to a third-floor apartment in the 500 block of W. Aldine after receiving reports of a man being stabbed in the