Month: August 2017

Jackson lives in Lakeview and targeted bar-goers across the North Side, Loop, and Wicker Park, police say. A 49-year-old Lakeview man posed as a ride share driver and defrauded his passengers by stealing their debit cards, acquiring PINs, and later withdrawing money from ATMs, police said. Gabriel Jackson of the 400 block of West Barry

It’s a case of “good news, bad news” for two men whose car was shot up overnight in Lincoln Park. The men—both reputed gang members according to a police source—were in a car near Ashland and Fullerton when someone in a passing car opened fire on them around 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The victims sped away

Thompson is charged with robbing the Parkwest Foodmart near Halsted and Diversey A Lakeview man who robbed a liquor store near his home with a butcher knife was arrested three days later when a witness saw him on the street, police said. Jacque Thompson of the 700 block of West Diversey robbed the Parkwest Food

Locations of 6 robberies since June 28 on the north end of Lincoln Park Now it’s SIX. Another armed robbery within a small, normally peaceful corner of Lincoln Park last night raises the number of muggings in the lakefront retreat to SIX since June 28. Incredibly, that’s more robberies than that slice of parkland has

Another gun is off of Uptown’s streets after a police surveillance mission found an accused cocaine dealer with a handgun in Clarendon Park on Saturday evening. Moore | Chicago Police Dept Officers were covertly monitoring a group of ten Conservative Vice Lords in the park around 7 p.m. when 18-year-old Shannon Moore stepped behind a

Jarrett (top) and Ortiz are each charged with two counts of burglary | Yelp!; Chicago Police Dept Have you heard about the two 19-year-olds who burglarized Navy Pier’s Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Shop last month? Cops say the duo stole all of the store’s cash on July 24 and they didn’t waffle before going

A 55-year-old Uptown burglary victim decided to do a little detective work of his own last Monday. And he had the darnedest luck. Nikolovski | Chicago Police Dept He told police that he decided to swing by the “Just Pawn” store at 4509 North Sheridan to see if he could locate any of his stolen

The good news is that two juvenile robbery offenders were arrested after mugging a woman late last night near the Southport Corridor. (Full info HERE.) The bad news is that two more women were robbed in the hours after the arrests—one in Wrigleyville and the other near the Diversey Brown Line station. The 2800 block

A Near West Side man, convicted seven times for burglary, is back in jail today, caught red-handed walking down a Lakeview street with a stolen TV, cops say. Maldonado | Chicago Police Dept 54-year-old Samuel Maldonado was arrested just after 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the 4300 block of North Clark Street. Police were in

Luxury Lexus vehicles are being targeted by catalytic converter thieves in Lincoln Park, police said in a community alert. At least four cases have been reported during late night, and overnight hours this month, police said. The vehicles’ catalytic converters are sawed off and resold for valuable scrap materials. Thieves typically target SUV models because

The couple was robbed here near their home in the 2100 block of West Fletcher, police said. | Google A Roscoe Village couple was held at gunpoint and searched for valuables by a vanload of robbers early Thursday morning, police said. There is an emerging pattern of similar robberies involving a minivan in Lincoln Square, North

Approximate locations of four robberies reported within two hours on Tuesday evening | BatchGeo Wow. What an afternoon. At least four people were robbed within two hours during this evening’s commute across the Town Hall police district. No one is in custody. From Boystown to Roscoe Village to Graceland West, the 911 calls came hot