Month: September 2016

Police this week sought surveillance video after gunshots rang out during a fight near Windy City Gyros, 3932 North Broadway, early Monday. No injuries were reported. Residents and witnesses reported hearing between three and nine gunshots around 1:30 a.m. and cops soon determined that the incident took place in the restaurant’s parking lot. Witnesses said

Chicago police have launched a death investigation after a passer-by found a man bloody and unresponsive in a Lakeview gangway early Friday. Officers found the man, who appeared to be in his 20’s, unconscious between two apartment buildings in the 700 block of West Briar around 2:10 a.m., police said. The man was later pronounced

A three-time convicted felon who federal prosecutors called “a serious danger to the public” is charged with shooting and critically wounding a Lakeview man during a robbery near Belmont and Racine on August 1. And it’s the second time he’s been charged with shooting someone during a robbery in Chicago! Burch (Chicago Police Dept) Lakeview Charges

McCune The 24-year-old man who was arrested after trying to break into a Boystown woman’s apartment this week was carrying a bag full of expensive electronics, jewelry, and other items that detectives believe were taken in other recent burglaries or auto break-ins around Lakeview, according to a police department source and documents reviewed by CWB

Attempted burglary charges are filed against an Englewood man who was caught trying to break into a Boystown apartment on Monday, police said. McCune 24-year-old Delvon McCune is charged with one felony count of attempted residential burglary for trying to break through the rear door of the victim’s home in the 800 block of West Aldine

Nope! That’s not Coolio. It’s Venson. A 22-year-old South Side man, released one month ago on parole, has been charged with Monday’s burglary of a home in the 1700 block of West Melrose, according to Chicago police and state records. Kaavar Venson was arrested at 10:40 p.m. Monday less than a block from the home

With burglary reports up over 87% in Lakeview and over 100% in our immediate area this year, there is finally some good news about break-ins. Actual criminal may vary. Yesterday evening, Chicago police caught two burglary suspects in less than three hours—one in Boystown and the other in Roscoe Village. The arrests come after several residents

The Uptown teen who pleaded guilty to robbing Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s son outside of the family’s home at Christmastime 2014 has been shipped off to prison after pleading guilty to narcotics and motor vehicle theft charges this week. Payne’s IDOC intake photo Phillip Payne, now 19, received juvenile probation for beating up Zach Emanuel and

It’s not what most people expect to see when they peer out of their front window in Lakeview. But with robberies up 68% this year, maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. A man who lives in the 2800 block of North Paulina told police that he looked out his window at 10:15 Saturday night and saw

Halsted bank robbery suspect (FBI) The FBI is investigating two Lakeview bank robberies that were reported hours apart on Thursday. In the first robbery, a man walked into the BMO Harris Bank at 3601 North Halsted at 10:56AM and handed the teller a note in which he implied that he was armed. Police describe the