Month: March 2018

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart As Cook County officials pushed for the adoption of “affordable bail” practices beginning in 2016, they consistently framed the issue as being about poverty. Poor people were being held in jail simply because they didn’t have $1,000 to go free, the press was told. But a CWBChicago investigation is finding

According to state officials, this is Spybar’s most recent Illinois liquor license. It expired on June 30, 2016. CWBChicago has learned new information about the city’s closure of Spybar, the late-night dance club staple at 646 North Franklin in River North. We were first to report on Friday that city officials said the bar had

This man is being sought in connection with a February 25th home invasion in Lakeview, police said. | CPD Chicago police late Monday released surveillance images of a man wanted for questioning in connection with a Lakeview home invasion on February 25. The photos show a man who used the victim’s Ventra card at the

It’s Monday Gunday! Time for another look at the seriousness with which Cook County judges are handling persons who are accused of weapons offenses in the city: Roberts • Keyshawn Roberts, 34, is a convicted felon living in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Cops say they went to his house on February 26 to take him

Miller An Uptown man’s jaw was broken in two places when a stranger approached him in the Loop and socked him in the face last Monday afternoon, according to prosecutors. Marlon Miller attacked the 40-year-old victim outside of Block 37, 108 North State, around 2:10 p.m. A CWBChicago editor saw police pursue Miller and arrest

A Chicago taxi driver has been charged with sexually abusing a woman who got into his cab in River North this weekend. Elchiev | Chicago Police Dept Police said a woman got into Murasbek Elchiev’s cab in the 300 block of West Ontario around 2:35 a.m. Saturday. Elchiev locked the cab’s doors and sexually grabbed

Twenty new probationary police officers pose for a pic with 19th (Town Hall) District Commander Marc Buslik (front row, 3rd from left) and Captain Paul Kane (front row, right) | Chicago Police Dept Update 5PM—In a sign that the police department is still not quite ready for hiring 1,000+ new officers, most of the 19th

Two robberies have been reported in Wrigleyville and Boystown since Thursday, but there is some very good news to report on the two neighborhoods as well. The three-month period ending February 28 recorded the fewest robbery cases in W & B of any December-February period since at least the year 2000. Only 15 hold-ups were

An off-duty Chicago police officer was hit with a bottle and robbed in the Near North neighborhood this weekend. Not far away, a Loop resident was mugged as he entered his high-rise residential building. The incidents are the latest in a violent crime surge that shows no signs of slowing down in the two neighborhoods.

Two deaths at Steamworks (left) and its jacuzzi area (inset) were ruled accidental. | Google The deaths of two men who were found unresponsive in separate incidents at a Boystown bathhouse last year were ruled accidental according to newly-available information from the Cook County Medical Examiner. A man who was found unresponsive early on July

Police said the victim was unable to escape from the car until it reached Clark and Wrightwood. | Google A rideshare customer who got into the wrong vehicle in Old Town yesterday evening was locked in the car and taken for a ride by a driver who later robbed her, police said. The woman entered