Month: May 2017

A woman who moved to North Center one year ago to get away from Boystown’s street crime was chased and robbed as she walked home from a euchre tournament Tuesday night. Skinned knees and a swollen ankle will be reminding Sarah of her post-euchre mugging for a while. | Sarah Jane  “So much for moving

Bloom Yoga Studio and one of its employees was robbed by two teens yesterday evening, police said | Google Two juveniles punched a yoga studio employee in the face, stole her wallet, then emptied the business’ cash drawer in Lincoln Square on Wednesday evening. One suspect is in custody. Police responded to the Bloom Yoga

Here are a few court updates for stories you may have read about on CWBChicago: Bell | Illinois Dept Of Corrections • Harry Bell has received an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to robbing an Uptown Verizon store at gunpoint last August. Cops followed pings from one of the store’s stolen cell phones to find

Dumas (inset) pushed the woman into a gangway, seen to the left of the hotel, in this Google image. A five-time convicted felon, free on parole since January 13, is now charged with robbing a Lakeview woman at gunpoint in Lincoln Park last Thursday night. 21-year-old Jamal Dumas of Mount Prospect pushed the 28-year-old woman

Garcia-Gonzalez (inset) is charged with robbing five cabbies last month. | Chicago Police Dept; File A 27-year-old Avondale man is accused of robbing five taxi drivers on the North Side last month. One of the hold-ups took place in Wrigleyville. Area North detectives issued a warning about the robberies on April 15, but the situation

The carjacker crashed at Cambridge and Briar, then fled on foot | CWBChicago UPDATE May 5, 4:26 a.m.— Police yesterday stated in a charging announcement that the offender is 15-years-old, not 16. Our original report follows. ————————- A man was carjacked at gunpoint near Wrigley Field on Monday night while the Cubs were playing the

Remember Michael Weimer, the guy who was detained on April 17 because a “concerned citizen” who saw him walking near Broadway and Irving Park Road thought he looked like a serial bank robber? You know, the Michael Weimer who was found minutes later, detained as a suspect, and charged with possessing a controlled substance—but was

Police are investigating the rape and armed robbery of a woman in North Center on Sunday evening. The 31-year-old victim told police that an unknown man attacked her from behind in the 2500 block of West Pensacola around 9 p.m. After robbing the woman of $20, the offender—described as a 5’9″ black man with a medium

The victim said he was carjacked near this building at Cornelia and Pine Grove | Google A Lakeview man told police that he was carjacked at gunpoint near Cornelia and Pine Grove Sunday evening. Details of the incident resemble circumstances described in a Chicago Police Department alert about seven auto thefts and carjackings across the

We haven’t seen an eye-roller like this in a long, long time. Johnson | Chicago Police Dept Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s take-home police car was broken into this weekend as it sat outside of his Bridgeport residence. From the Sun-Times: “Johnson’s security detail dropped him off at his home Friday evening and parked the

A 50-year-old man suffered a “very superficial wound” during an altercation onboard a Red Line train at Addison this morning. Witnesses told police that two apparently homeless men began arguing on the train and one of them took out a small knife and stabbed the other in the hip. Cops took the 23-year-old armed man