“Thumbs up,” says this burglar as he makes his way into another Lakeview home. | Provided A wisecracking Lakeview burglar took time to give the “thumbs up” to a surveillance camera as he made his way toward his next break-in this weekend. But the camera may get the last laugh as it captured crystal-clear images
Approximate locations of Monday’s robberies. | Multiplottr Three women were robbed in less than 10 minutes yesterday evening near the Magnificent Mile and Streeterville, according to police reports. Monday’s spree is similar to a wave of robberies that unfolded on Friday afternoon. • A woman walked up to a patrol officer outside the Drake Hotel
Antawan Smith | CPD Monday, after a weekend in which 52 people were shot and 10 were killed in Chicago, the police department’s top spokesperson shared some even more depressing information via Twitter: “As of this afternoon, 11 of the 19 individuals arrested on gun charges over the weekend by #ChicagoPolice are already out on
Floyd Stewart is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at knifepoint in the 200 block of W. Evergreen. | CPD; Google An armed man confronted a woman at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her in an Old Town gangway on Wednesday night, police said. Charges have been filed. The woman was walking in the 200 block
George Condon (inset) is accused of luring two girls near the Disney II Magnet Elementary School. | CPD; Google An off-duty Chicago detective intervened after a man tried to lure two girls as they walked from the Disney II Magnet Elementary School in the Irving Park neighborhood, police said. Prosecutors said the girls were walking
Patrick Newton | CPD Charges have been filed against a man who police say may be responsible for breaking out the windows of nearly twenty vehicles on the Far North Side. Investigators briefly considered the possibility that the crimes were anti-Semitic because many of the damaged cars were located near Jewish establishments. Police now believe
Approximate locations of the robberies Two robberies have been reported this weekend in Lakeview East, and two more went down in nearby Uptown, according to Chicago police. Offenders are in custody for one of the crimes. Here are the details: A Lakeview man was jumped by two offenders as he walked in the 3800 block
Shawn M. Moore | CPD An Uptown man is facing multiple felony charges after witnesses reported seeing a group of men walking down the street with guns while filming a video on Wednesday evening. Police said callers reported seeing a group of men, including three who were armed with handguns, walking in the 4700 block
The victims’ car crashed into a light pole at 1606 N. Sedgwick | Provided UPDATED 9:03PM ——– Two men are dead after occupants of an SUV opened fire on their vehicle while the two vehicles traveled westbound in the 100 block of West North Avenue on Sunday morning. Police said the shooting may stem from
Bullet holes riddle the passenger side of the victims’ car. | Provided An updated version of this story is posted HERE. ————- Two men are dead after occupants of an SUV opened fire on their vehicle while the two cars traveled through the intersection of North Avenue and La Salle in the Old Town neighborhood on
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