Month: November 2017

A man who has been banned from entering the Center on Halsted due to his behavior was arrested last weekend for violating the ban and attacking an employee at the massive LGBTQ service agency. 22-year-old Brian Henderson of the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood entered the center around 11 a.m. last Sunday and tried to steal an item

The Wisconsin woman charged with posing as an Uber driver to rob a Lincoln Park man at gunpoint early last Saturday pulled the same ruse to mug a man in River North just an hour earlier, prosecutors say. Raymond | Cook County Sheriff Nytina Raymond allegedly picked up her first victim at an Italian restaurant

One shooting victim sought help in the lobby of this high-rise, 3900 N. Lake Shore. | Google Two men were shot in Lakeview East early Sunday morning. Detectives were working to determine if the men were injured in separate attacks or a single incident. Residents in the 3300 block of North Lake Shore Drive reported

A Lincoln Park church became the latest North Side house of worship to fall victim to burglars. Meanwhile, an Uptown man who has been charged with burglarizing three Rogers Park synagogues was arrested this week—for burglarizing a fourth synagogue. Here are the details: • A worker found the church chapel broken into as he arrived at

Jackson (left) and Kirkman lured at least nine victims into armed robberies using Grindr, police and a source said. Two men used the gay hook-up app Grindr to lure at least nine victims into armed robbery ambushes in Rogers Park since October 14, according to police and city sources. Police on Thursday set up a

These men are wanted for the armed robbery of Big & Little’s restaurant in Lakeview, police said. | CPD New information this morning after yesterday’s armed robbery of Big & Little’s restaurant on Belmont. Police have issued a community alert and CWBChicago has learned more about the getaway car’s license plate number. Here’s what’s new this

Surveillance video has been released showing the attackers who targeted three men within 15 minutes in Uptown on Wednesday evening. CWBChicago reported on the attacks the same night. In a new community alert, police confirm two robberies in the spree: one in the 700 block of West Bittersweet around 7:15 a.m. and the other in

Detectives are investigating the Thursday morning armed robbery of Big & Little’s restaurant, 1034 West Belmont. Two men, both armed with handguns, entered the eatery just before 11 a.m. and demanded the store’s proceeds, police said. Minutes later, the duo ran out the door, sprinted past a gaggle of daycare kids and sped away in

An armed woman took a “substantial” amount of cash from a bank vault during a take-over robbery in Lakeview this morning. No one was injured. A bank surveillance image of this morning’s offender. | FBI Around 9:40 a.m., the woman displayed a black handgun to tellers at Chase Bank, 3956 North Sheridan. The woman entered

Approximate locations of tonight’s Uptown attacks. | BatchGeo Three men were battered and at least two of them robbed in separate attacks in the Uptown neighborhood on Wednesday evening.  The attacks all took place within 15 minutes and are believed to be connected to a single group of four men or teenagers. The first robbery was

Chicago’s fastest-growing crime, carjacking, remains red hot on the North Side. Detectives are investigating an armed carjacking in Lincoln Park and an auto theft in Uptown on Tuesday night. Around 7:30 p.m., an offender armed with a crowbar took control of a man’s Subaru Outback in the 2400 block of North Burling, police said. The

 Wilson battered an off-duty officer into unconsciousness. | Wrigley image via Pandamic Photo on Flickr A parolee who battered an off-duty police officer into unconsciousness near Wrigley Field in June 2016 has been sentenced to time served plus 8 days by Cook County Judge Earl Hoffenberg. The 28-year-old officer announced his office as he tried to

Herek (left); McNeely (center); and Roxas are charged with burglary of a school or place of worship. Officers who responded to a burglary call at Yakov Elementary School in the 3200 block of West Peterson last Sunday afternoon arrived in time to see Anthony Herek of Romeoville in the school’s maintenance room placing proceeds into