Month: January 2018

Ryan | CPD An Irving Park man was caught with packages belonging to five different residents of Wrigleyville on Saturday afternoon, police said. Now, he’s facing a felony burglary charge. Cops responded to a call of a package thief working the 900 block of West Waveland around 3 p.m. Saturday. An officer arrived on-scene to

An off-duty Chicago police detective was carjacked at gunpoint in Bucktown this morning and the local alderman said it happened while school kids were enjoying recess nearby. Drummond School students were on recess when the off-duty cop was carjacked on the corner, an alderman said. The 43-year-old cop was sitting in his car in the

Locations of recent armed robberies in Old Town. An armed robber opened fire on two mugging victims in Old Town late Sunday night, escalating the violence in a week-long robbery pattern that has plagued the normally-quiet neighborhood. Just after 10:30 p.m., two men emerged from an SUV and approached a man and a woman who

Tow them awayWe plunder the streets of your townBe it Edsel or Chevy there’s no car too heavyAnd no one can make us shut down                                  — Lincoln Park Pirates, Steve Goodman Image: DNAInfo Nearly two years after state regulators

Michael Pfeiffer in photos provided by the Chicago Police Department (L) and Facebook. UPDATE 8:20PM—CPD just issued a media alert. Michael has been located. No other information was offered in the notice. —————- A Rogers Park man who formerly worked at Crew Bar & Grill in Uptown has gone missing, police say, and they are

Lake View is just one of 15 Community Area crime reports that you will receive. They’re here! CWBChicago’s editorial team has just published 2017 year-end crime reports for many North Side neighborhoods including Lakeview, Uptown, North Center, Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, the Loop, Near North, and Near West. Additional reports will be issued this week

Cook County’s new “affordable bail” program for accused criminals continues to amaze us. Herbert | CPD CWBChicago has learned that yet another accused criminal, charged with Class X felony robbery, has been released on a recognizance bond, a curfew, and electronic monitoring. Class X felonies are the most serious class of crimes in Illinois. Not

Three people were robbed in two separate hold-ups early Saturday and police were working to see if the cases are related. Just after 2 a.m. in Old Town, a 37-year-old man was walking in the 1600 block of North Orleans when three or four men exited a gold vehicle and approached him. At least one

It’s been six months since a Florida tourist in Boystown refused to press robbery charges against Derrick Robie. Since then, the 20-year-old pride of Dolton, IL, has been arrested repeatedly for weapons and theft charges along the LGBTQ bar strip. Late Monday night, cops stopped Robie on Halsted Street in Boystown because they had been