Month: July 2018

Approximate location of Sunday’s stabbing.  A 21-year-old man is in serious condition after being stabbed during a fight near the Lincoln Avenue bar strip in Lincoln Park early Sunday, police said. No one is in custody. Around 2:45 a.m., witnesses reported seeing a group of five people fighting in the 600 block of West Belden

Police on the scene of Friday evening’s shooting in the 4500 block of North Sheridan. | @UptownChgoRocks A 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg during an exchange of gunfire in the Uptown neighborhood on Friday evening. No one is in custody. The boy was walking with a group in the 4500 block of North

Oh, Divvy. What are we going to do with you? Police are looking for the man who robbed a woman in the Loop early today while he rode past on a Divvy bike. The 35-year-old woman and three friends were walking in the 700 block of South State when the Divviot pedaled up on his baby

Shots were fired in the alley behind Robert Jeffrey Salon. | Google Shots were fired near Boystown late Thursday night, striking an occupied vehicle, but leaving no one injured, police said. No arrests have been made. A 34-year-old man told police that he was parked an alley behind the 3100 block of North Broadway when

This Walgreens at 1001 West Belmont was robbed at gunpoint Thursday evening. | File A Lakeview Walgreens store was robbed at gunpoint Thursday evening by a man who escaped with a “significant” amount of cash, according to Chicago police and a source. The offender entered the store at 1001 West Belmont around 8:20 p.m. and

Police Thursday night warned about a carjacking pattern on surface streets along the Kennedy Expressway from River West to Fulton Market To Greektown. Detectives typically issue community alerts when they believe that a series of crimes have been committed by the same person or group. Three carjackings earlier this month are identified in the bulletin.

Darius Moses is charged with robbing the man here, in the 1400 block of North State Parkway. | CPD; Google A Lincoln Park man was rendered unconscious and robbed as he walked through the Gold Coast on his way home from an after-work social function last Friday. One man is in custody and a second

Pace bus driver Burnell Johnson is accused of sexually assaulting a woman with cerebral palsy at least twice. There are new developments to report in the case of Burnell Johnson, the suburban bus driver who is accused of twice sexually assaulting a passenger who was traveling from a cerebral palsy treatment center. Initially held without

Joanne Signa poses with the Stanley Cup in 2015. | Facebook Guilty pleas from two men have brought an end to one of the most violent, vicious crimes in recent Lakeview history. What happened early one January morning in 2016 changed the fabric of the neighborhood for many residents. It prompted others to launch one

Chicago police today issued two community alerts for Lincoln Park residents: One warns about a series of robberies and the other warns of a catalytic converter theft pattern. Detectives generally release community alerts when they believe that a series of crimes is the work of a single person or group. Approximate locations of the three

The Special Olympics athlete who went missing in Streeterville last week has been found safe, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the Chicago Police Department’s chief spokesperson. Haque Rezwanul, 22, who has autism and cannot speak English, went missing after he stepped into an SUV outside of his hotel in the 100 block of East Delaware around

A stolen Divvy at Washington and Wells on Tuesday evening. | Provided It has been less than two weeks since CWBChicago broke the news about a massive theft problem that is affecting Chicago’s Divvy bike-sharing program. Thieves have learned a technique that will release bikes from the system’s docking stations without paying, we reported. Now,