Month: January 2017

A “use of force” training video that cadets watch at the Chicago Police Department’s academy is 35 years old. 35 years ago, Chicago cops drove these. | CopCarDotCom The video has been in the department eight years longer than Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Not only is the video old, according to the US Department of

Career criminal Larry Tolliver will get 50% off his sentence for this attack on a 74-year-old woman.  A career criminal who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for battering and robbing an elderly woman in her Lakeview senior center’s lobby on Easter morning 2016 should be released in just 10 years, the State of

Locations of three robberies at gunpoint in the 900 block of W. Fletcher this week. | Google UPDATE 4:51 p.m. — Additional information about the offender is not available because he is a juvenile. “Police found the victim’s phone and a black replica handgun on the suspect,” according to local Alderman Tom Tunney. CWB Chicago’s

The revolving door of Cook County’s crime-friendly justice system keeps spinning. Wolkow | Chicago Police Dept You may remember Thomas Wolkow. He and two others were charged with possessing a pellet gun, theft, reckless conduct, and criminal damage to property after cops said the trio shot out car windows near the Sheridan Red Line station

Screen grabs of a man setting fire to a discarded Christmas tree early Sunday morning. | Scott Montgomery Hey, if you have an old, dry Christmas tree lying in the alley, near your garage, or possibly close to your wooden back deck, this video may convince you to move it. A couple of ne’er-do-wells came

A man who claimed to be carrying a bomb robbed a bank near the Sheridan Red Line station Friday afternoon, police said. No one is in custody. The robber, decked out in a bright orange jumpsuit with reflective stripes, entered the Chase Bank at 3956 N. Sheridan just after 2 p.m. and made off with

The woman was robbed just north of Big & Little’s restaurant on Kenmore | Google A Lakeview woman was pushed to the ground and robbed Wednesday evening by a group of men who jumped out of a passing car, police said. The victim was walking in the 3200 block of North Kenmore around 9:30 p.m.

Robbers targeted a Lincoln Park T-Mobile store Wednesday evening, marking at least the third cellular store heist in our area since December 30. No one is in custody. T-Mobile store at 2744 North Clark | Google Around 6:35 p.m., three offenders walked into the TMO store at 2744 North Clark and began using wire clippers

UPDATE 10:30AM JANUARY 5: DNAInfo reports that “an orange sign stating the business was closed ‘by Order of the Superintendent of Police’” has been posted in the restaurant’s windows. Our original story follows… ——————– An Uptown alderman is calling on the city to shut down the restaurant where two men reportedly shot each other to

New information has emerged regarding an animal abuse and neglect case that was discovered in the 500 block of West Belmont recently. Laserko | Chicago Police Dept 22-year-old Christina Laserko is accused of cruelty to animals and failure to perform animal owner duties, police said. A building engineer who was working to fix a leak on December 23 entered Laserko’s seventh-floor

Laskero (inset) and the 500 block of West Belmont | Chicago Police Dept; Google A 22-year-old woman is charged with two misdemeanors after dead dogs were allegedly found in a Lakeview apartment. Christina Laskero is accused of cruelty to animals and failure to perform animal owner duties, police said. On the Friday before Christmas, a

Maurice Delaney (inset) and the Iyanze restaurant party room | Facebook, Iyanze Chicago police have identified one of the two men who reportedly shot each other to death in an Uptown restaurant’s party room early on New Year’s Day. 38-year-old Maurice “Head” Delaney of Skokie was pronounced dead at 5:19 a.m. yesterday by doctors at

UPDATE 6:09PM:  CWB Chicago has been told credibly, but not yet confirmed, that no firearms were recovered from the shooting scene, potentially raising further questions about Ald. James Cappleman’s cut-and-dried statement that two men simply shot each other to death in a disagreement. Police say it is not uncommon for witnesses or family members to pick