Leondo Joseph (inset) is accused of seven rapes, including two near Wrigley Field. | Chicago Police; Google On his birthday in 2003, he shoved his foot into a Wrigleyville woman’s apartment door so she couldn’t close it. Then, he raped her. At Christmastime the next year, he donned a ski mask, forced his way into
A South Side parolee has been charged with pistol-whipping a Lakeview man and robbing the man’s girlfriend in Lakeview this month. Porter (top) and White | Cook Co. Sheriff Prosecutors said Terrance Porter, 31, mugged the couple near their home in the 3300 block of North Seminary around 11 p.m. on February 12. Porter struck
Chicago’s Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade is changing its name for 2017, but no other significant changes are planned, according to permit applications that have been distributed to the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications. The re-named “LGBTQ Pride Parade” will step off from Montrose and Broadway at noon
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced in December that prosecutors in her office will not file felony charges against shoplifters unless the alleged thief has 10 felony convictions or is accused of stealing more than $1,000 in merchandise. Velde | Chicago Police Dept So, if new allegations are true, Jacob Velde is probably kicking
A romantic ride on a Chicago landmark seemed like a grand way to spend Valentine’s evening in our beautiful city. But those plans quickly turned “un-romantic” after cops found a 24-year-old man packing a loaded .45-caliber handgun on Navy Pier’s famous Ferris Wheel, according to court records. Police went to the pier around 7 p.m.
Lakeview Lutheran Church, home of The Crib youth shelter; Lampkin (inset) | Google; Ill Dept Of Corrections A 23-year-old man who’s on parole for a local robbery has been charged with battering and resisting police officers who responded to a call of a man with a gun inside The Crib youth shelter in Boystown. A
This pit bull mix, “Vinny,” was one of three animals left to die in a Lakeview apartment, police said | Photo: CWB source It’ll be 12-months probation for Christina Laskero, the 22-year-old woman who was accused of moving out of a Lakeview apartment in September and leaving two cats and a dog behind to die
Dillard | Illinois Department of Corrections A darling of the Lakeview social service circuit has been sentenced to prison for attacking a CTA bus driver and threatening the driver with a handgun in Wrigleyville one year ago. Yet, despite being “sentenced” to “eight” years in prison, 24-year-old Rojah Kimble Dillard will be set free in
Our 19th District police are piloting a program that could give residents a safe place to conduct potentially risky online transactions such as Craigslist purchases. Several times a year, police are called to assist people who’ve been robbed during online meet-ups: – A woman was robbed when she met with someone who was supposed to
A 25-year-old Brighton Park man was shot dead as he drove south on Lake Shore Drive at Fullerton this morning. Navarro | Illinois Dept of Corrections The man has been identified by a police source as Jorge Navarro, who was paroled last September after serving part of a 3-year sentence for aggravated unlawful use of
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