Month: February 2018

Image: FTSKfan at English Wikipedia Speaking to the Chicago Tribune following last week’s murder of Chicago Police Commander Paul Bauer, Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) talked about changes downtown: “It involves things that have been happening in the Loop that were unthinkable not that long ago — open-air drug markets, armed violence, an offender wearing body

A couple of months ago, we reported on Chicago’s dirty little secret: Robberies were out of control in the Loop, we told you. Well, a new year is here, and the story of the Loop is not any better: Through February 7, robberies in the central business district are up 83% this year compared to

Stop leaving your car running with the keys in it. That’s the takeaway from a series of community alerts issued this week by the Chicago Police Department. One after another, the alerts came out, mentioning more than a dozen times that numbskulled (our pronoun, not theirs) drivers had lost their cars after leaving them running

An 81-year-old Portage Park man was mugged near the Lakeview Post Office on Thursday morning, police said. It’s the second robbery this week in an area that is experiencing its lowest wintertime robbery count in at least 16 years. The victim and a witness told police that an unknown man approached him on foot in

Marin Garcia (L) and Faustino Dominguez are accused of driving the same car while drunk. | Chicago Police Dept It’s not easy to get a DUI when you’re in the passenger seat, but a couple of Chicago men have managed to do precisely that. Chicago police say a drunk driver crashed into another car in

Jorgensen in a 2014 mugshot | CPD UPDATE 7:29PM: Cook County Judge Mary Marubio this afternoon ordered Jorgensen held without bail. Our original report from earlier follows.————————————————————- An intoxicated suburban man battered a cab driver late Tuesday, carjacked the victim’s taxi, and then killed a woman when he crashed the cab into two other cars

Marius Manolache (inset) had 17 fake debit cards containing skimmed bank information, police say. After recovering dozens of ATM skimmers across the North Side and downtown in recent months, Chicago police may have caught a break. And a man who has been living in a motel near Clark and Diversey is in custody. Skimmers are

Wheel thieves hit this car in Lincoln Park recently. | Photo courtesy HeyJackass.com Chicago’s notorious wheel thieves have hit parts of the 19th (Town Hall) District hard in recent weeks, police say. In a new community alert issued on Wednesday, detectives identified eight cases since January 22 in which victims’ cars have been de-wheeled and