Month: May 2017

Cops are looking for a man who held up the Byline Bank branch at 1401 West Belmont in Lakeview on Saturday morning. And the Byline Bank branch oughta be shopping for new cameras. Pronto. The suspect seems to have identified and then robbed the bank that’s “protected” by what may very well be the world’s

Detectives are investigating the armed robbery of a work crew in North Center on Thursday afternoon which may be connected to a similar incident that targeted plumbing contractors in Lakeview last week. Yesterday’s victims were working on a project near Lincoln and Grace around 11:30 a.m. when a white Chrysler 200 pulled up, a man

King (Left) and Stokes were arrested at MB Bank, 3179 N. Clark after someone reported a robbery. It’s the darnedest of coincidences. 19th District cops responded to a call of a man being robbed at an ATM inside of MB Bank, 3179 North Clark Street early Sunday morning. When officers arrived, they couldn’t find a

Jabri Sims Chicago Police Dept The arrests of two brothers after a police raid in Uptown has many people in that neighborhood jumping for joy. Both men, whose family has been at the center of more violence and crime than most Chicagoans will ever see, are facing a variety of felony charges, police said Thursday.

Two masked and armed men robbed a woman at gunpoint in southeast Lakeview on Tuesday afternoon and then fled the area in a vehicle that was reported taken in an armed carjacking days earlier, police said. The woman was walking in the 500 block of West Oakdale when two offenders approached her, displayed a handgun,

| Image: It’s Tactical Another day, another armed carjacking. A North Center man told police that an armed man stole his car at gunpoint in the 1800 block of West Oakdale on Tuesday evening. The man had just pulled his silver 2015 Infinity Q50 into his garage when the gunman walked in behind him and

No, neighbors. You aren’t going crazy. You really were awakened by gunfire this morning. Several people who live near Melrose and Ashland were awakened early Monday morning by the sound of gunfire in their alley. Police responded, but no signs of trouble were found. Yet daylight—and the review of home surveillance footage—revealed that people were

Salazar (inset) is charged with robbing two women near the Chicago Archdiocese’s Quigley Center (left) | Google An Avondale man has been charged with committing a string of robberies against women in Streeterville and River North during the Wednesday morning rush hour. Emmanuel Salazar, 22, is charged with two counts of robbery and one count

Kids know they should not accept rides from strangers. Some folks forget that lesson as they grow up. To their own detriment, sometimes. …and adults. Cops are looking into the armed robbery and pistol-whipping of a Lakeview man who accepted a ride from two guys he met in a bar on the Far North Side

The woman reported being attacked near the intersection of Addison and Magnolia. | Google A Lakeview woman told cops that she was the victim of an attempted criminal sexual assault on a street near Wrigley Field this morning. The incident is under investigation by Chicago police. The woman said she was walking in the 1200

UPDATE MAY 7: The North Center victim was actually carjacked near Paulina and Augusta in West Town, according to police. The car is a gray 2011 Accura TSX. Our original report follows. ———– At least two more armed carjackings are under investigation by Chicago police–one in our neighborhood and another in nearby North Center–as a

Burglars smashed the front glass of at least six MetroPCS stores on the North Side early Friday and made off with an undetermined number of wireless devices and accessories. The hour-long spree hit stores in Lakeview, Uptown, and West Ridge, police said. Stores not affiliated with MetroPCS were apparently spared, according to early reports. A