Month: June 2018

Chicago police monitor Halsted Street on the night following a recent Pride Parade. | File Five years ago, we published our editors’ recommendations for enjoying the Chicago Pride Parade weekend safely. There have been some improvements in the parade since then. But everything we wrote in 2013 applies equally to this coming weekend. Avoid Belmont.

Andre Jones (inset) was arrested outside Water Tower Place | CPD; Google How man thieves are there on the Mag Mile anyway? Police say a tourist managed to be targeted by thieves outside of Water Tower Place not once — but TWICE within minutes. At 9:15 p.m. on June 7, the 56-year-old woman was standing

When a Lakeview woman reported that a police impersonator flashed his badge at her during a parking dispute near Wrigleyville and Boystown on Sunday evening, it was the third time we’d heard about police impersonations in the neighborhood since May. Sunday’s incident—which investigators determined involved a Chicago alderman flashing his “alderman’s badge”—turned out to be

Byron Jackson | Chicago Police Dept A registered sex offender who has been twice convicted of criminal sexual assault was arrested at his lakefront restaurant job on Friday to face new charges of attempted criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The new allegations stem from an alleged incident in Edgewater on Memorial Day

Boystown heads into this Sunday’s 49th Annual Chicago Pride Parade with an extra reason to be proud. Just five years ago, the LGBTQ playground and adjacent Wrigleyville were in their third consecutive year of recording more robberies than any other Chicago neighborhood. This year, the Lakeview enclaves are among the city’s safest. It’s a big

Front of an ATM skimmer recovered in Lakeview | CPD Chicago cops recovered another ATM skimming device in Lakeview on Sunday afternoon. It’s the second data-sucking contraption found on cash machines in the area since May 29. At least a dozen ATM skimmers have been found on the North Side since May 1st, according to

Angel Ayala (inset) was ordered held without bail. | CPD; Google A Logan Square man beat up and carjacked a driver in the middle of Milwaukee Avenue on the afternoon of June 7, prosecutors say. Angel Ayala, 19, was arrested at his home last Monday after the victim identified him in a photo line-up, according

UPDATE 11AM JUNE 19 — Chicago Police just announced that Fowsia has been located. No further information was provided in the announcement.——————— A Rogers Park girl has been reported missing after she failed to return home from school on Thursday, police said in a bulletin issued Sunday night. Fowsia Ibrahim, 14, lives in the 1400

The man was shot on the sidewalk in the 600 block of South Lake Shore Drive (above). | Google A 28-year-old man is in serious condition after being shot along the Lakefront Trail downtown early Sunday. No one is in custody. Police said the man was walking with a group of people in the 600

The incident unfolded in the 800 block of West Belmont near Halsted Street, police said. | Google Two people were assaulted in Boystown late Friday by a group of offenders, including one man who was reportedly armed with a pipe, according to police. No one is in custody. Both victims were reported in stable condition