Month: May 2018

This man is a person of interest in two sexual abuse and home invasion incidents, police said. | CPD Surveillance video has been released showing the man that police say entered two Lincoln Park homes early Sunday and sexually abused two young girls as they slept. The video, released late Wednesday night, shows the suspect

Three men wearing Cubs gear who allegedly battered four people in Wrigleyville early last Wednesday are facing multiple counts of battery. And their reported victims, some still recovering from injuries, say a fourth offender got away. CWBChicago first reported on the arrests last night. Now, we’ve heard from one of the alleged victims directly. The

Progress Bar on the corner of Roscoe and Halsted is the latest to suffer an ATM burglary, police say. | Google The Boystown ATM Bandit has struck again, taking an unknown amount of money from yet another cash machine along the LGBTQ bar strip. Police were called to Progress Bar around 6:30 on Wednesday evening

Left to right: Marin; Melendez; and Rodarte | Chicago Police Dept UPDATE: See fully updated report including one of the victim’s stories in our follow-up report HERE. —————————— Three men wearing Cubs gear attacked four friends who were leaving a Wrigleyville bar early last Wednesday, resulting in multiple injuries—and the loss of three teeth, police

Stoner in the Loop earlier this month. | Twitter The victim of an early morning homicide in the Loop has been identified as Zachary Stoner, a popular Chicago-based YouTube vlogger known as ZackTV1. Stoner was driving in the 700 block of South Clark when he crashed into a light pole after being shot around 1:30

UPDATE 12:00PM—The victim has been identified as popular Chicago vlogger ZackTV1.  Full update HERE. ————— A man was shot to death in his car in the 700 block of South Clark in the Loop around 1:30 Wednesday morning, police said. Police are questioning a man whose car was found near the scene. Police said the

This Southport-area Subway restaurant was robbed Tuesday evening, police said. | Google LAKEVIEW — A Southport Corridor fast food restaurant was robbed by an armed man on Tuesday evening. Police said the man entered the Subway at 3706 North Southport just before 10 o’clock, apparently with a gun in his hand. He made his way

The Tribune’s characterization of events in downtown over the weekend shifted from “mayhem” to “peace” in the course of a single day.| Screengrabs chicagotribune.com If they are not careful, Chicago Tribune readers may suffer headline whiplash this morning. Somehow, someway, the newspaper’s assessment of what happened downtown over Memorial Day weekend changed from “mayhem” to

Ya gotta love it. Five temporarily-appointed Cook County circuit court judges who lost their elections in March are on the public payroll for another four years after being appointed as associate judges last week. That’s right. The voters rejected ’em and the Cook County machine dusted ’em off and made ’em judges again. America! What