Month: July 2017

Walters is charged with raping three different women over the course of three years in his Lakeview apartment. Already accused of two rapes, a Lakeview man is now charged with a third sexual assault. The good news, if there is any, is that a judge has finally decided that the guy shouldn’t be on electronic

Uddin (inset) admitted to dropping her newborn from an 8th-floor window of the building at right, police said. A woman accused of throwing her newborn baby from an 8th-floor apartment window in Uptown has been sentenced to four years probation. Mubashra Uddin had been charged with four counts of murder for allegedly killing the baby

Area North detectives are working on a community alert after two more robberies were reported early Sunday in Southeast Lakeview and nearby Lincoln Park. The muggings follow similar attacks in the same area late Wednesday into early Thursday. Map showing approximate locations of four recent robberies that cops think are related. Most recently, a woman

It’s happening well out of our usual coverage area, but the latest community alert from Chicago police is jaw-dropping. Detectives are warning Near South Side residents of a robbery crew that includes a 6- to 8-year-old boy who’s armed with a silver handgun. Map showing the approximate locations of eleven related robberies, according to Chicago

Police found six shell casings after shots were fired in Uptown Saturday evening. Witnesses reported seeing a large group of men running southbound from Magnolia and Wilson after shots rang out at 9:55 p.m. Saturday’s incident was at least the third shooting or attempted shooting near Wilson and Racine since June 22. A 27-year-old Uptown

Tarasiuk (inset) is charged with taking a stolen city-owned E-Z-GO golf cart on the Wilson Skate Park. UPDATE JULY 7 4:26PM—There’s video, doods! Check it HERE. ————————————— We’re so STOKED to tell you this story, brah. A Franklin Park skater who got bored with his board is accused of taking a stolen city golf cart

Three robberies in less than two hours late Wednesday into this morning have investigators looking for a suspected robbery crew in Lakeview and Lincoln Park. No one is in custody. In the first incident, a Lakeview man reported that he escaped a would-be robbery near Paulina Market, 3501 North Lincoln, around 11 p.m. He told

Detectives are investigating three reported robberies in Lakeview East since Saturday. No arrests have been made in connection with any of the incidents. Most recently, a woman was approached from behind and robbed by a man who claimed to have a gun near the Sheridan Red Line station around 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday. The woman

Another suspicious early morning fire—the second in Lakeview since Thursday—broke out in the 1200 block of West Fletcher around 3 a.m. Monday. No one was injured, but a woman who lived in the building was displaced, police said. The blaze appeared to start in a blue recycling bin that was standing against a wooden coach

Last Wednesday, CWBChicago reported exclusively that cops are on the lookout for a Chrysler 300 that has been used in a series of bump ’n’ run auto thefts across the North Side. The suspect vehicle is a silver or gray Chrysler 300 with tinted windows, we reported. Its license plate begins with X92. Two days

Investigators were working to determine the cause of a fire that broke out in a parking garage beneath a Lakeview apartment complex early Thursday. The fire spread quickly, destroying at least five cars and causing smoke damage to adjoining rental units in the building at 510 West Briar . No one was injured in the

Doty (inset) is accused of brandishing a handgun as the Critical Mass bike ride passed him. | Milosh Kosanovich We’ve all seen Chicago’s Critical Mass bicycle tours—the seemingly mile-long stretch of bike riders who pedal their way through the streets on the last Friday of every month. Last Friday’s ride, dubbed a “14-mile ride &