Month: October 2018

A catalytic converter Readers and police sources have provided a string of information to CWBChicago this month about some of the North Side’s biggest and most persistent pests: catalytic converter and wheel thieves. Theft and resale of converters, which are pollution control devices that contain precious metals, is an attractive career path for some Chicagoans.

Police have again warned about a series of after-hours business burglaries in the Uptown neighborhood. While the police department didn’t say so, all the burglar has been targeting Asian restaurants. Detectives typically issue community alerts when they believe a series of crimes have been committed by a single person or a specific group of people.

Chicago police investigate a reported robbery in the 3300 block of North Halsted last summer. | File Wrigleyville and Boystown, the North Side neighborhoods that five years ago festered with more violent robberies per block than any other part of Chicago, can do what they do best: celebrate. Thanks to more aware local residents, an

Keshawna Davidson is charged with armed robbery of a Divvy bike. | CPD; Motivate If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Know what I mean? Chicago police have now arrested more than 200 adults for possessing stolen Divvy bikes since thefts of the bike share service’s baby blue rides began to skyrocket in mid-June. The thefts

Locations of this morning’s two shootings in River North. Two shootings were reported in about 30 minutes overnight in the heart of the River North entertainment district. No one is in custody. At 3:30 a.m., witnesses reported hearing three shots fired and a man falling out of a dark-colored SUV near Ontario and Orleans. Arriving

Locations of the three robberies that police have linked to the suspect. Chicago police and the FBI are looking for an armed robbery offender who has held up one bank and two restaurants in the heart of the West Loop since Friday. Friday, the man robbed MB Financial Bank at 932 West Randolph Street at

John Danuk is charged with beating a taxi driver in the 500 block of West Adams. | CPD; Google A Wrigleyville man was arrested Friday and charged with severely beating a taxi cab driver in a road rage incident last spring, according to police and court records. John Danuk, 20, was arrested at his home

An Uptown man is in critical condition after being shot by his girlfriend during a domestic dispute Tuesday morning, police said. The woman was questioned by police and has been released without being charged. Police were called to an apartment building in the 900 block of West Wilson Avenue around 7:40 a.m. after residents reported

Here are some recently-reported incidents in the Lincoln Park neighborhood: A DePaul student was robbed as she walked on the school’s Lincoln Park campus Tuesday afternoon, according to the university’s public safety office. The woman was walking eastbound in the 900 block of West Belden around 1:20 p.m. when she was confronted by two offenders

Laroyae Baker | CPD A man who worked as a restaurant server at Navy Pier has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl on the Northwest Side, according to court records. Prosecutors said 31-year-old Laroyae Baker was staying at an acquaintance’s home in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on September 30th when he entered the girl’s bedroom