Leslie Pieroni | CPD A registered sexual predator who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old in 2003 is now accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting another 12-year-old boy in Rogers Park last month, according to court records. Leslie Pieroni, 49, who police said worked as a janitor in the boy’s apartment complex, threatened to kill
A Fire Department ambulance in downtown Chicago | H. Michael Miley via Flickr By Steven Dahlman • Loop North News Siren noise in downtown Chicago will be reduced “dramatically” when a new state law takes effect on Tuesday, according to a city alderman who helped craft the legislation. 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly worked with 2nd
Chicago police work to clear a mob from the McDonald’s at State and Chicago on Dec. 30th | @David2Chicago At least four people were injured and CTA Red Line traffic was snarled as large groups of teens and young adults brought havoc to the Magnificent Mile on Saturday evening. One arrest was made. Alderman Brian
Approximate location of Friday evening’s carjacking. A delivery driver was carjacked at gunpoint Friday evening near Boystown. Minutes later, a woman was robbed by a gunman in Roscoe Village. The two incidents are part of a late-year surge in robberies around Lakeview, Lincoln Park, and nearby North Side neighborhoods. Here are the details: • A
Quinten Hawthorne (inset) and Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School | CPD; Google UPDATED 3:25 PM: Added just-released letter to parents. UPDATED 4:02 PM: Added statement from CPS spokesperson. UPDATED 8:54 PM: Added new email from Right At School ———————— A male worker at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School, 3730 North Oakley, has been charged with
Approximate location of Thursday’s carjacking in Old Town. A 35-year-old man was run over by a carjacker who stole his vehicle in the Old Town neighborhood on Thursday evening. No one is in custody. It was at least the third carjacking to be reported in Lincoln Park since last Friday. Police said the man pulled
Xavier Lyons was arrested on the southbound Red Line platform on Thursday afternoon. | CPD; File Chicago police have identified the alleged robbery offender that police pulled from a Red Line train at the Belmont station on Thursday afternoon. Xavier Lyons, 18, of the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is charged with felony armed robbery and misdemeanor
Levonta Nesbitt was arrested at a narcotics “hot spot” in the1100 block of North Clark. | CPD; Google A twice-convicted robbery offender who’s on parole has been charged with being an armed habitual criminal after police say they found him with a handgun during a narcotics operation in River North. Cops were dispersing loiterers from
Approximate location of Thursday evening’s carjacking Lakeview chalked up another carjacking on Thursday evening, this time in the Wrigleyville neighborhood. It is at least the 11th vehicular hijacking of the year for Lakeview—more than any year this millenium—and at least the third carjacking to be reported there this month. A female Lyft driver told police that
Rev. Jesse Jackson (left) and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart | Wikipedia Back in March, CWBChicago published a three-part series that exposed holes in Cook County authorities’ claims that hundreds of inmates were jailed in Cook County “just because they are poor” and unable to put down a bail deposit of $1,000 or less. Our
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