Three people were robbed in about 20 minutes overnight in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Police are also investigating at least one armed robbery that occurred in Lakeview on Wednesday evening.
A man was shot in the wrist during an armed robbery in River North overnight, police said. It happened around 3:26 a.m. on the 500 block of North State, just north of the Royal Sonesta Chicago River North Hotel.
Lakeview Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) believes Chicago police are not committing adequate resources to the upcoming weekend’s Chicago Pride Parade and he’s asking CPD brass to assemble a more robust plan.
Prosecutors on Wednesday said a Blue Island man chained a woman to the wall of a South Side home last month and raped her twice over two days before a passerby heard the victim’s cries for help and summoned police.
Another wave of armed robberies rolled across the city overnight, leaving at least 11 victims in its wake. Police believe some of the robberies are linked to another string of hold-ups that unfolded the night before in Streeterville.
It took Chicago police nearly an hour to respond to information about a wanted bank robber in the Loop. Six minutes after they arrived, he robbed another bank.
The estate of a Chicago murder victim is suing Cook County’s sheriff and chief judge for wrongful death because the man who allegedly killed her was on electronic monitoring (EM) at the time of the slaying.
A group of five men and pistol-whipped a man who was walking in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Monday evening. There are indications that the crime may be linked to two other armed robberies over the weekend.
A bicyclist is among four people who were attacked or robbed in under an hour Monday night in the Streeterville neighborhood, police said. A fourth person was robbed overnight near the local Chicago police station.