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Man being sought for two downtown bank robberies

February 4, 2019 10:47 AM CWBChicago

Surveillance images of a man being sought in connection with two downtown bank robberies. | CPD Chicago police are on the lookout for a man who has staked out and then robbed two banks in and near the Loop since mid-January, according to a newly-released community alert. The man seen in these surveillance photos entered

Smollett case update: “Threat letter” mailed from SW suburbs; “persons of interest” pix released to appease “downtown”; more

February 4, 2019 9:29 AM CWBChicago

The threat letter to Smollett was mailed from Chicago’s southwest suburbs. | TMZ Here’s an update on the Jussie Smollett case in which the star of Fox television’s Empire claimed that he was beaten in Streeterville early last Tuesday by two people who put a noose around his neck, poured a chemical on him, and

Man strikes stranger, punches cop in race-fueled incident on Boystown bar strip

February 3, 2019 2:04 AM CWBChicago

Robert Buschman was arrested at 3322 North Halsted. | CPD; Google A Georgia man is accused of punching a woman in the head and then punching a responding police officer in the eye during a racially-charged incident on the Boystown bar strip early Saturday morning. Patrol officers who were conducting an unrelated traffic stop in

Uptown wig shop robbed at scissorpoint; Two charged, another cut loose

February 1, 2019 3:44 AM CWBChicago

Michelle Cain (left) and Javier Hill were charged with the armed robbery of an Uptown beauty shop. | CPD Two people are in custody and a third has been cut loose without charges after an Uptown beauty store was robbed at scissor-point of wigs last Friday afternoon. Police say 25-year-old Javier Hill stuffed wigs down

Smollett neighbor: “I believe him…there are lots of robberies down there” (VIDEO)

February 1, 2019 2:19 AM CWBChicago

Jessie Smollett reported being attacked here, in the 300 block of Lower East North Water, near a secondary entrance to his Streeterville apartment building, police said. | Google Street View “Yeah, I know his story is odd, but I do believe him.” That’s the straight dope from another resident of TV star Jussie Smollett’s high-rise

Month: February 2019

Man being sought for two downtown bank robberies

Smollett case update: “Threat letter” mailed from SW suburbs; “persons of interest” pix released to appease “downtown”; more

Man strikes stranger, punches cop in race-fueled incident on Boystown bar strip

Uptown wig shop robbed at scissorpoint; Two charged, another cut loose

Smollett neighbor: “I believe him…there are lots of robberies down there” (VIDEO)

Man murdered girlfriend hours after she filed domestic battery report with police, prosecutors say

Woman left drugs near toddler who died of overdose in East Garfield Park, prosecutors say

Police warn of 19 auto thefts across Fulton Market, West Town

Suburban lab executive faked 380,000 COVID tests in $66 million fraud, feds say

He pleaded guilty to an attempted murder he didn’t commit. But an Illinois court refuses to give him a certificate of innocence