Month: February 2019

Dashaun Patrick was detained by Palmer House security near the hotel’s Wabash entrance. | CPD; Google Security at the Palmer House came to the rescue after an Indiana man was beaten and robbed near the landmark hotel in the Loop, police said. A hotel guard was watching as 26-year-old Dashaun Patrick of Chatham walked up

Three burglars enter Johnny Sprockets bike shop in Lakeview early Sunday. | Johnny Sprockets Since mid-January, a small group of high-end bicycle retailers from Lincoln Park to Lakeview to Lincoln Square has been repeatedly targeted by burglars who strike between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. And it seems that nobody can stop them. Around 4:20

Jussie Smollett | Good Morning America On Friday, Jan. 18th, a letter was dropped into a mailbox in Chicago’s southwest suburbs. The envelope was addressed in childlike scrawl to Empire TV star Jussie Smollett at Cinespace Studios, a West Side production facility that the Fox program calls home. “MAGA”—the acronym for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential

Sripai Biadnok is accused of sexually assaulting and abusing children at this Uptown temple. | Google; CPD A Buddhist monk has been taken into custody on a warrant to face allegations that he sexually assaulted and fondled two children at an Uptown temple in 2001 and 2002, Chicago police Monday. Sripai Biadnok, 48, victimized the

Gaston Tucker fled from a traffic stop at Sedgwick and Evergreen, police said. | CPD; Google A man who was recently paroled after serving 12 years in prison for shooting someone is back in jail, accused of dropping a handgun during a traffic stop in Old Town on Sunday evening. An officer who was working

Catalytic converters are prized by thieves who sell them at scrapyards for up to $200. | Allstate A crew of bold daytime catalytic converter thieves slipped away from cops on the North Side this weekend after witnesses reported seeing the criminals sawing off car parts in Uptown and Lakeview. As you probably know, thieves love

| Wikipedia A gunman opened fire on an off-duty Amtrak police officer who was driving to work in a road rage incident near Union Station on Sunday evening, according to Chicago police and a department source. The officer was not injured. Officially, Chicago police said only that a man was fired upon by an occupant

Johnny Sprockets was burglarized early Sunday, the latest North Side bike shop to be targeted. | Google Burglars broke into the Lakeview location of the Johnny Sprockets bicycle shop chain early Sunday and made off with more than $5,000 worth of specialty bikes, Chicago police said. The break-in is the latest in a string of

Approximate location of the attack | Google A 26-year-old man was beaten and stomped on by a group of six men who followed him from a Near North bar following an altercation early Sunday, police said. Around 4:40 a.m., the victim and a witness left a bar near the intersection of Dearborn Street and Elm

Andrew Clark is accused of burglarizing Wintrust Bank — but not of cash. | Google: CPD A man who has made a career out of burglaries and armed robberies is back in jail, accused of breaking into a bank near the United Center to steal virtually everything except cash. Andrew Lamont Clark, 52, was arrested

Here are the latest developments in the Jussie Smollett hate crime investigation: Saturday evening, CPD’s top spokesperson said investigators’ interrogations of Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and his brother Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo have “shifted the trajectory of the investigation. We’ve reached out to [Smollett’s] attorney to request a follow-up interview.” The two men were identified as being the

Isaiah Johnson was arrested at Amundsen High School on Feb. 11th | Google; CPD An Amundsen High School student is being held without bail, charged with sending threatening Snapchat messages to fellow students during class. Nineteen-year-old Isaiah Johnson was arrested at the school, 5110 North Damen, shortly after 3 p.m. last Monday, according to police