Month: August 2017

Two robberies along Cannon Drive near Diversey Harbor have caught investigators’ eyes. Around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, three men hopped out of a minivan, pushed a man to the ground, and robbed him outside of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 North Cannon Drive. The men implied that they had a gun as they took

Detectives are investigating the armed robbery of a jewelry store in Lincoln Square on Friday evening. Investigators say a man walked into the Nomadic Ant, 4604 North Western, around 5:20 p.m. and placed a knife to the side of an employee’s chest. After demanding “all of the money,” the man fled southbound on Western Avenue

A nearly weeklong search for two suspects wanted in connection with a grisly River North murder came to a peaceful end in the San Francisco area on Friday evening, police said. Lathem (left) and Warren surrendered separately to authorities in the Bay Area on Friday  | Chicago police Northwestern University associate professor Wyndham Lathem, 42,

Chicago police are warning Lincoln Park residents about a string of garage burglaries. Cops say over 20 garages have been hit—mostly after doors were left open or unlocked. High-end bikes and other property have been taken, they said. Residents should ensure that they keep garage doors locked and windows secure, police said, while asking people

Through their first 50 home games of the year, arrests at Cubs match-ups are down nearly 50% compared to the same time last year. And nearly one-third of this year’s arrests came during a five-day stretch late last month when Cubs played two key rivals—the St. Louis Cardinals and the crosstown White Sox at home.

Inexplicably, this man wound up getting shot, a source says.  | Facebook He’s a busy man. A SWAT stand-off veteran. An accused crack swallower. An arson victim. And a parolee. When he’s not busy filming handgun videos for YouTube, Keith Hayer is a rapper. And, as of this morning, he’s one of Chicago’s latest shooting

The rear of the 4-story home can be seen in this Google photo taken from Halsted Street. | Google A 23-year-old man died after falling from a fourth-floor porch in Boystown on Friday evening, police said. Police and EMS responded to the rear of a home in the 3500 block of North Reta at 8:25

Alderman Tom Tunney stuffs a stack of emails from CWBChicago editors into our “file.” | Facebook His office may be entering its 14th month of not responding to our emails, but it’s good to see that local Alderman Tom Tunney reads our work. On Wednesday, his office didn’t respond to an email in which we

Boystown street parking will soon become even harder to find on weekends. And lots of locals say they love it. In two weeks, the city will test the expansion of a weekend no-parking zone that will outlaw street parking on a half-mile of Halsted Street from Belmont to Addison, according to comments made at a

An Uptown man kicked his elderly dog and threw it down a set of stairs because the pooch can’t do the things it used to do, prosecutors say. Mazur | Chicago Police Dept A Chicago police animal crimes team went to Anthony Mazur Jr’s home in the 800 block of West Sunnyside last Tuesday to

Lathem (l) and Warren are sought in connection with the murder of a 26-year-old man in this River North high rise. Chicago police are looking for a Northwestern University associate professor and a University of Oxford worker in connection with the stabbing death of a 26-year-old man on the Near North Side last week. Warrants

Police manpower in the 19th District is slipping. Alderman Tom “Tunocchio” Tunney | Artist’s Rendering Staffing levels are lower than local Alderman Tom Tunney promised us when he voted in favor of Chicago’s record-breaking property tax hike in exchange for a 35-officer increase during 2016. So what is Tunney doing about it? Lying, apparently. In

Detectives are seeking information about the man in the solid white shirt. | Chicago Police Dept  Investigators today asked for the public’s help in identifying a man who was allegedly involved in an aggravated battery at the Sheridan Red Line station on July 8. Police said the unknown Asian man pushed a 49-year-old man down