Month: March 2018

A 17-year-old student sent threatening messages to a girl and brought a handgun to Alcott College Prep High School after class last week, police said. Now, the boy is facing a felony weapons charge in juvenile court. The school, located at 2957 North Hoyne, is just south of Roscoe Village in the North Center Community

Morgan (inset) is charged with robbing a man at 8 East Randolph. A 51-year-old man is in custody, charged with robbing a Loop resident as the victim walked into his apartment complex’s rear door early on March 3. James Morgan was arrested last Tuesday afternoon on the corner of State and Lake, about a block

Welcome to another edition of “Monday Gunday,” our weekly review of recent  firearms cases and how the allegations have been handled by Cook County’s court system: First up, a verdict: Kelly Hoard, accused of trying to carry a firearm into a federal passport office in the Loop on January 5, has pleaded guilty to disorderly

Stump (inset) was charged with filming n the men’s room at North Avenue Beach. | Chris Smith on Flickr A suburban man who secretly video-recorded a 16-year-old boy in the North Avenue Beach men’s room last summer has been sentenced to sex offender probation. Gregory Stump, 68, pleaded guilty to a single count of felony

The victim was robbed in the first block of E. Chicago Ave, near the Chicago Red Line station, police said. | Google A Streeterville condo building’s security guard was pistol-whipped and robbed by a group of attackers near the Chicago Red Line station early Sunday morning, police said. The 26-year-old victim was on his way

The boutique shop specializes in leggings for women. | Google A Lakeview women’s boutique was robbed Saturday evening in a hold-up that resembled similar robberies of small shops in the Loop last week. So far, police have not yet connected the crimes publicly. Around 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, a man walked into Leg Appeal, 2933 North

Approximate locations of two robberies overnight that police believe could be related. | BatchGeo A man was pistol-whipped during a robbery in Lincoln Square early Saturday and cops are working to determine if the incident is related to another hold-up reported overnight in nearby Albany Park. Around 2:35 a.m., the Lincoln Square man was in

Friday morning’s victim was mugged behind these buildings in the 1200 block of West Belmont, police said. | Google A man was hit on the head with a rock and robbed Friday morning near Belmont and Racine. Later in the day, a would-be bank robber was caught in the act near Boystown. Here are the

Two shops in the 300 block of Michigan were robbed this week, police said. | Google An armed man held-up two Michigan Avenue boutiques during afternoon hours this week and police are asking for the public’s help in tracking him down. Surveillance image of the robber. | Chicago Police Dept Shortly after noon on Monday,

The 4500 block of North Magnolia, near where today’s victim was shot. | Google A 21-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot near Truman College in Uptown this afternoon. A police source said the victim is a student at the school. Witnesses said the victim and another man were seen arguing on the

Clifford Brewster was arrested outside of a hotel near Michigan Ave and Wacker Dr in the Loop. | CPD; Google A South Shore man forced a woman into prostitution by beating her and threatening to have her child taken away by the state, prosecutors said. Clifford Brewster, a 32-year-old registered child sex offender, was arrested