Month: October 2017

A 15-year-old boy is in custody, accused of taking part in a group robbery near Boystown early Saturday morning. Police responded to the 3200 block of North Clark around 2:45 a.m. after a woman reported seeing three males holding two other men at gunpoint near a painting supply store. Officers on patrol near Halsted and

Police resources will be front and center in the city’s 2018 budget, said Ald. Hopkins (top) and Ald. Reilly By Steven Dahlman (email), Loop North News Slow police response, sometimes no response at all, is ‘unacceptable,’ says 2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins, and he will ‘fight for additional patrol officers’ in the 18th police district. When

McCall is charged with a robbery and three aggravated batteries on the Belmont Red Line platform, police said. A 24-year-old Dolton man who once played college football for Iowa is now charged with robbery and aggravated battery in connection with an incident on the Belmont Red Line platform this weekend. Around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, 911

Map showing the approximate locations of 12 related auto thefts listed in tonight’s police alert | BatchGeo Chicago police tonight are warning the Town Hall District about a series of incidents in which legally-parked cars have been stolen since September 18. At least twelve cases have been connected to the pattern, but investigators did not

Last night’s robbery is at least the fourth to be reported in southeast Lakeview since October 9. A Lakeview man was robbed of his bicycle near Diversey and Sheridan Sunday night. He becomes at least the fourth robbery person to be mugged in the southeast Lakeview neighborhood since last Monday. Three men, one armed with

Browning A bunch of North Side burglary suspects have reached plea deals in recent weeks. Here is a run-down on the allegations against them and their sentences: • Lifelong thief Randall Browning received an eight-year sentence from Judge Matthew Coghlan for burglarizing a Wrigleyville home on the morning of March 2, 2016. Police were called to the

Tucker is charged with trying to break into a Wrigleyville ATM and battering police. | Google; CPD A Lakeview neighborhood menace is finally facing serious charges after he tried to break into a Wrigleyville ATM and then battered the police who tracked him down, prosecutors said. Cops said they saw Tevin Tucker prying open the

Duniver (inset) turned himself into police after surveillance images of robbery suspects were made public. A South Side man who was accused of an aggravated robbery in Woodlawn this summer is now charged with two violent robberies near the Magnificent Mile this week, including one on the Northwestern University campus. On October 12, 18-year-old Rashawn

These four suspects are being sought in connection with the beating and robbery of a Northwestern University law student in Streeterville on Sunday. | Chicago Police Department A Northwestern University law student was punched in the face, knocked to the ground, kicked, beaten, and robbed on the school’s Streeterville campus Sunday evening, Chicago police said

s***A 36-year-old Lakeview man told police that he was struck in the head and robbed in the 600 block of West Wellington around 7:45 p.m. on Monday. The man reported being robbed here, in the 600 block of W. Wellington The victim called police around 9 a.m. yesterday to report the crime, police said. “I

Hornbuckle | CPD An Uptown man has been charged with battering and trying to rob a couple near Wilson and Broadway on Sunday evening. Police said Jessie Hornbuckle, 39, got into a dispute with two men over a Divvy bike and then tried to rob them of cash and their phones around 7 p.m. A