Month: February 2019

Gunfire was reported near the intersection of State and Chicago, witnesses said. | Google No one was injured when shots were fired early Sunday near the usually-bustling intersection of State and Chicago in River North. No one is in custody. Multiple witnesses told police that they heard or saw shots fired between two vehicles in

The Hotel Sofitel. | Hotel Sofitel A woman told Chicago police that she was robbed at knifepoint in an elevator at the Hotel Sofitel, 20 East Chestnut, early Sunday morning. No one is in custody. The victim reported that she was riding the elevator to her seventh-floor room around 4 a.m. when a man on

The Halsted Street Bluemercury location. | Yelp! One day after burglars filled trash bins to steal high-end cosmetics from a Bluemercury store in the Southport Corridor last week, a burglary crew pulled off an identical heist at the shop’s sister location in Lincoln Park. No one is in custody. Police said two male burglars wearing

Young adults settle in for the night at The Crib’s Lakeview location. | Night Ministry “The Crib,” a youth homeless shelter that has operated out of a Lakeview church basement since 2011, may be relocating this summer to new digs in Bucktown, according to information distributed to Bucktown residents, applications filed with the city, and

Update February 16, 2022: Leoanard Dillard pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery by discharging a firearm in a deal with prosecutors who dropped 12 other felonies including multiple counts of attempted murder and weapons charges. Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer oversaw the case and sentenced Dillard to 11-1/2 years. He is scheduled to be paroled

How many times have you heard people say, “they oughta make him pay for the investigation,” since the Jussie Smollett hate crime case began on Jan. 29th? As it turns out, the Chicago Police Department has a form for that. Should Smollett be convicted of filing a false police report as charged, a mundane piece

A 70-year-old man who speaks only Turkish has gone missing from the Boystown area, police said. Kazim Gurgut was last seen at 10 a.m. on Tuesday in the 500 block of West Cornelia, according to a missing person bulletin. He left his home carrying only cash. His wallet and passport were left behind, police said. Gurgut

Marvin Allen was arrested at Jenner on the morning after the off-campus incident. | CPD; Google A Chicago Public School employee battered a 12-year-old boy and sprained the student’s wrist in an after-school, off-campus incident last week, according to Chicago police. Marvin Allen, a student advocate at Jenner Campus, 1119 North Cleveland in River North,

Phillip Smith was arrested at the Mag Mile Norstrom location. | CPD; Google Two Nordstrom loss prevention officers tackled and helped police disarm a man who was holding a gun inside the retailer’s Magnificent Mile location last Tuesday evening, prosecutors said. The store’s agents were watching as a known scam artist tried to purchase merchandise

“This,” Ellis later said “was in reference to the current state of journalism” | Twitter If we told you that the chief spokesperson for a powerful politician offered a personal opinion that journalism is about clicks over quality and sensationalism over integrity, you might think we were talking about you-know-who. But we’re not. Instead, those

Bluemercury on Southport. | Yelp You probably already know about the string of smash-and-grab burglaries in which crews of thieves are breaking through glass doors to steal high-end bicycles from retailers on the North Side between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Well, this morning, there’s a twist. Around 5:50 a.m. on Wednesday, a motorist reported

Jussie Smollett | Instagram At 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 22nd, a tactical sergeant in the Chicago Police Department’s Ogden District was waved down near the West Side production studio where Fox television’s Empire is based. “Hold me down,” the sergeant told dispatchers. “They got some kind of threat through the mail.” And so began the