Month: May 2017

The man wore a baseball hat with a large #23 during two of the robberies, police said | Chicago Police Dept. Detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who has committed at least three robberies across Lakeview and Uptown this month. Here is what  cops are saying as well as some

Apartments and storefronts in the 3300 block of North Clark | Google Police are investigating after a Lakeview man reported being sexually assaulted by two other men on a Lakeview staircase Sunday evening. No one is in custody. The two offenders raped the man on the second-floor landing of a stairwell in the 3300 block

Brown (inset) drove a stolen Mercedes through the garage door at Sandberg Terrace, cops say. | CPD; Google Cops say a Lombard man stole a luxury car from an Old Town high-rise, drove it through the parking garage door, crashed the car, and ran away. But he didn’t get far and he’s now charged with

Cops are investigating two more recent robberies in the Wrigleyville-Boystown area. And detectives have now identified a seventh hold-up connected to a two-night armed robbery spree in nearby Lincoln Park. Here’s the latest: A traffic aide found a 32-year-old man on the brink of unconsciousness near Addison and Magnolia around 10 p.m. on Wednesday. While

A woman was threatened by a man with a handgun as she parked her car Wednesday night in Lakeview, about three blocks from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home. The victim had just parked her car in the 4100 block of North Greenview and was collecting her belongings when a man wearing a red hoodie approached the

Cops are investigating a bump ’n’ run auto theft that played out on bustling Ashland Avenue on Friday afternoon. The stolen car is similar to this 2014 Lexus. A woman told police that another car hit her vehicle from behind in the 2900 block of North Ashland around 3:45 p.m. When the woman got out

Williams (inset) was arrested after he ran into Lake Shore Drive’s traffic lanes, cops say. | Google; CPD A 21-year-old Englewood man who’s on parole for robbery beat a woman and fractured her son’s skull during a robbery in the Gold Coast on Monday, prosecutors said. A group of men punched and kicked the 48-year-old

Here are a few of the more unusual arrest reports we’ve come across recently: Stewart A 61-year-old East Garfield Park man has been charged with the nearly superhero-like feat of stealing a 1,300 pound I-beam from a construction site at Western and Belmont. Police went to the site last Friday after a construction supervisor reported

Approximate locations of six armed robberies reported in nearby Lincoln Park | Batch Geo Chicago cops are warning residents about a series of six armed robberies that took place in nearby Lincoln Park on Monday and Tuesday. Three of the hold-ups happened during the 10 p.m. hour on Tuesday. In each case, a group of

Melvin Smith (inset) stole dozens of packs of cigarettes from this Lincoln Park gas station, prosecutors say. A Lincoln Park man who broke into a gas station and stole dozens of packs of cigarettes this month is charged with felony burglary, prosecutors say. A witness reported seeing a man break into the gas station at