March 2022

Burberry shoplifting crew snags purses worth about $35,000 during lunchtime raid: report

March 31, 2022 6:30 PM CWBChicago

A group of thieves that raided the Burberry store on Michigan Avenue midday Thursday may have escaped with handbags worth more than $30,000.

Woman, 72, shot while walking in Lakeview on Thursday afternoon

March 31, 2022 3:43 PM CWBChicago

The 72-year-old woman was shot while walking on the 3100 block of North Broadway in Lakeview.

Kim Foxx says she approves 86% of cases police bring in and over 90% of carjackings. That’s not even close.

March 30, 2022 10:05 PM CWBChicago

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has repeatedly claimed that it approved 86% of felony cases that police bring in for approval last year. That’s not true.

Division Street nightclub, scene of December drive-by, voluntarily closes after meeting with Chicago police, officials say

March 30, 2022 2:45 PM CWBChicago

Play Kitchen and Cocktails, 7 West Division, will close temporarily after management met with Chicago police, the local alderman said.

More carjackings reported in Wicker Park, Lakeview as March hijacking cases soar

March 30, 2022 1:21 PM CWBChicago

Police are investigating two carjackings in Wicker Park, another in Lakeview, and and armed robbery in Bucktown, all reported since yesterday evening. and sunrise today.

#12: He opened fire on his ex’s house, killing a man, prosecutors say. But he was supposed to be home 24/7 for a pending felony gun case.

March 29, 2022 11:48 PM CWBChicago

Keyon Hayes was supposed to be in the house 24-hours a day while on felony bond for a gun case. Saturday evening he allegedly opened fire on his ex-girlfriend’s house and shot a man in the head.

Carjacked Uber driver waited 75 minutes for police response in the Loop, records show

March 29, 2022 9:44 PM CWBChicago

A 70-year-old Uber driver waited more than an hour for a police officer to respond to his 911 call after two men carjacked him in the Loop on Tuesday morning.

CPD releases pic of catalytic converter theft team in action on North Side

March 29, 2022 1:02 PM CWBChicago

CPD released a dark surveillance image of a catalytic converter theft crew that cops stumbled upon while patrolling Rogers Park this month.

Robbers attacked and robbed a woman who was walking in the Loop on Monday evening

March 29, 2022 11:47 AM CWBChicago

A woman was attacked and robbed as she walked in the Loop on Monday evening.

Armed carjacking in Boystown, second hijacking nearby on Monday evening, police say

March 29, 2022 10:51 AM CWBChicago

Armed men carjacked a driver as he dropped off a friend in Boystown on Tuesday evening. The hijacking unfolded about an hour after another driver was carjacked nearby.

Chicago cops hunt 3 suspects in ‘running gun battle’ that left bystander critically wounded

November 28, 2023 9:23 PM

Chicago police detectives just released video footage of a “running gun battle” that left a man critically injured in Avondale earlier this year. The shooting occurred as many people celebrated Mexican Independence Day on September 16.

Pharmacist gets federal probation for selling COVID vaccination cards on eBay (but some jurors thought the government was being petty)

November 28, 2023 9:06 PM

A pharmacist accused of selling blank COVID-19 vaccination cards on eBay as the nation’s immunization effort ramped up in 2021 was sentenced to a year of federal probation on Tuesday, according to court records.

‘Refugee’ rode around on a Divvy, groping passersby, Chicago police report says (but his suburban arrests are even stranger)

November 28, 2023 7:43 PM

A man who claims to be a “refugee” was recently arrested after Chicago police officers allegedly saw him riding around on a Divvy bike and groping women as he passed by. The really weird part of this story, though, is what he previously pleaded guilty to doing in the suburbs.