Month: August 2016

Detectives are investigating after a newspaper delivery man’s car was stolen in Uptown early today…with his 3-year-old son in the back seat! The boy was later found unharmed in the middle of Superior Street in Streeterville. According to the 39-year-old victim, he was delivering newspapers near Irving Park Road and Marine Drive around 4:45AM when

A 24-year-old man was beaten and robbed this morning along the Boystown bar strip, according to a witness and police. The man was found bleeding heavily on the corner of Halsted and Buckingham around 3:45AM, the witness said. Police determined that the man had been attacked and robbed behind the D.S. Tequila Company patio at

Three people reported being robbed in separate incidents Sunday, all along the infamous “Helmont” strip—a short stretch of Belmont Avenue between Halsted and Sheffield that routinely sees more robberies and violence than any other part of our neighborhood. The first victim, a 26-year-old man, was beaten with an unknown object and robbed outside of Seven

Image: TelegraphUK A 92-year-old Lake View woman has become one of the latest additions to the North Side’s ever-growing list of burglary victims. The woman answered her front door Friday afternoon to speak with a man who claimed to be a utility worker. The “worker” entered the front while his partner entered the back and

Need a laugh to get your Monday started? Check out this post from the crew at Second City Cop.  It’s a computer screen displaying a police call from our neighborhood on Friday. ———- Email us. Facebook us. Twitter us.

Rodriguez Antonio Rodriguez’s mugshot tells the tale. He decided to pick on a man more than twice his age in Wrigleyville. And that man reset Rodriguez’s clock. Witnesses told police that the 52-year-old victim was simply walking out of the Addison Red Line station around 7:45PM on August 3 when 21-year-old Rodriguez blocked his path,

Pre-schoolers cross Belmont at Sheffield today, steps from the site of Friday’s double-shooting (Wes Ingram) In the wake of three shootings near its front door last week, a Lakeview pre-school and day care center says it will have lockdown drills and will teach children “a get low song [or] saying” to help them remember what

Police are investigating after an armed robbery and a separate carjacking were reported in Boystown early today. No one is in custody. In the first incident, a victim reported being robbed by two men armed with handguns in the Walgreens parking lot at 3201 N. Broadway around 2:45AM. Both offenders fled into a gray Hyundai

Some of of our neighborhood’s robbery offenders have been handed serious prison time, a too-rare occurrence in Cook County. Of course, the courts have dispensed a generous amount of the county’s more typical  offender-friendly version of justice, too. Here are some recent court developments: 20 Years Mitchell First up, 27-year-old McKale Mitchell. He received a

A 29-year-old man with the word “Renegade” tattooed to his forehead faces felony charges after he tried to take a cop’s gun as the officer arrested him near Belmont and Sheffield early Saturday, police said. The incident unfolded almost exactly 24 hours after a double-shooting took place near the same intersection. Brown (Chicago Police Department)

A Boystown bank was robbed Saturday afternoon by a man who also robbed a Near North Side bank last month, according to the FBI. The offender walked into Fifth Third Bank at 3601 N. Broadway and handed a hold-up note to the teller just before 2PM on Saturday, police said. He took the note back,

Unfortunately, NBC Chicago yesterday aired a story that strongly suggested Friday morning’s double shooting at Belmont and Sheffield was an anti-gay hate crime.  That story, which we will not link to, continues to appear on page one of the station’s web site. According to multiple, proven sources, there is no evidence that the shooting was anything