Month: January 2017

Every neighborhood across the city’s North Side lakefront saw double-digit increases in violent crime last year, according to an analysis of official City data by CWB Chicago editors. And the Wrigleyville and Boystown neighborhoods saw some of the greatest increases with violent crime up 41% here. We saw eight shooting incidents with ten victims last year,

Banks (inset) and one of the many vehicles shot in the incident near Wrigley Field | CWB Chicago reader; IDOC Nearly 80 shots were fired during a wild gun battle on a Wrigleyville side street in December 2015. Now, the first of two men to be charged in the case is heading to prison. 20-year-old

A 25-year-old man was shot in the leg outside of Cardinal Bernardin Early Childhood Center in Lincoln Park on Tuesday evening. It was the second shooting in that immediate area since Monday. Witnesses reported seeing a man get out of a black vehicle and open fire outside of the school on Paulina at Diversey around

Karczynski said he was firing his gun “into the water” at Diversey Harbor, police say. | Google; Chicago Police A Lincoln Park man is faces weapons and trespassing charges after he admitted to firing a gun at Diversey Harbor early Friday, police said. Officers who responded to a call of shots fired in the 3000

Brown (top) and Williams allegedly followed their victim from the Boystown I-Hop. | Chicago Police; Google Two men are facing robbery charges, accused of attacking and robbing a man after following him from the Boystown I-Hop early Monday, prosecutors said. One of the men is on probation for setting a Boystown home on fire last

Steamworks building and jacuzzi area (inset) | Google; Yelp Chicago police are investigating the death of a 36-year-old suburban man who was found unresponsive inside a Boystown bathhouse late Monday night. Paramedics and police responded after the man was discovered unconscious in the jacuzzi and sauna area of Steamworks, 3246 North Halsted, at 11:30 p.m. The

A man who intentionally set his friend’s Lakeview home on fire last spring has been sentenced to three years in prison. Bobby Idaka, 54, was drunk when he angrily set fire to a dumpster behind his friend’s home in the 900 block of West Belmont on May 7, prosecutors said. Idaka started the fire after

Cook County Judge Marvin “Let ‘em Go” Luckman has struck again! You may recall reading about Michael Curry, who was charged with repeatedly stabbing a Lincoln Park beach volleyball player this summer less than a month after Luckman found “no probable cause” to continue trying Curry for allegedly slashing, pepper spraying, and robbing two men

Police are investigating two reported robberies in our immediate neighborhood from over the weekend. No one is in custody. The victim was robbed at the mouth of this alley. | Google The first victim flagged down a passing police officer near Cornelia and Halsted at 6:15 a.m. on Saturday. He had just been robbed near

Emergency personnel on the scene of a double-shooting at Belmont and Sheffield last summer. | CWB Chicago reader Local tax dollars will be used to provide private security patrols for Wrigleyville and the high-crime Belmont Avenue corridor between Halsted and Racine according to a Request For Proposals issued by the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce. Funds

A DePaul University student was robbed at gunpoint near the school’s Lincoln Park campus Wednesday afternoon according to police and DePaul’s Office of Public Safety. The 20-year-old student told police that the robber approached him in the 2400 block of North Seminary around 2:30 p.m., pulled out a silver semi-automatic handgun and demanded his property.

Paramedics treat Tuesday’s gunshot victim in the 900 block of West Wilson | UptownChicago.Rocks A 36-year-old  man became Uptown’s third gunshot victim of the new year Tuesday night. Police said the man was shot in the leg outside of 921 West Wilson shortly after 6 p.m. He fell to the ground a few doors away