March 2023

Hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian in the West Loop

March 25, 2023 7:51 AM CWBChicago

A 26-year-old man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in the West Loop overnight, according to Chicago police.

Chicago cops found 6 catalytic converters and a machine gun inside car linked to armored car robberies, officials say

March 25, 2023 7:20 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police found six catalytic converters inside a stolen car that is suspected of being involved in an armored car robbery, officials said Saturday.

$46,000 Prada store robbery earns man a 42-month sentence

March 25, 2023 6:32 AM CWBChicago

A Calumet City man has been sentenced to prison for participating in a flash mob robbery that allegedly yielded merchandise worth $46,000 from the Prada store in downtown Chicago last year.

Man shot while walking in Edgewater

March 25, 2023 5:15 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating after a man was shot in the Edgewater neighborhood on Friday night.

Cellular stores robbed in Lincoln Park, North Center

March 24, 2023 9:11 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating two cellular store robberies that unfolded just minutes apart Thursday evening in Lincoln Park and North Center.

2 charged after threatening woman with gun during catalytic converter theft, Chicago police say

March 24, 2023 8:53 AM CWBChicago

A man and a 15-year-old boy face felony charges for allegedly threatening a woman with a handgun while trying to steal her catalytic converter just west of Goose Island on Thursday afternoon, Chicago police said.

Man convicted of raping woman he met at Lakeview nightclub; 3 other cases still pending

March 24, 2023 7:45 AM CWBChicago

A Lakeview man accused of sexually assaulting four women between 2002 and 2017, including three women he met at Chicago bars, has been convicted in one case.

Now charged with murder, Chicago man had a ‘success story so moving it was featured on ABC News’

March 23, 2023 7:17 PM CWBChicago

Kevin McMurtry had a “success story so moving it was featured on ABC News,” his defense attorney said Thursday after prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder in Chicago.

6 years for man who robbed CTA passenger of their phone so he could watch porn

March 23, 2023 9:51 AM CWBChicago

A Chicago man who allegedly robbed a Red Line passenger of their phone so he could watch porn, just two days after being arrested for pleasuring himself while watching schoolchildren arrive for class, has been sentenced to six years.

Man carjacked salesman during Land Rover test drive, officials say

March 23, 2023 8:31 AM CWBChicago

Prosecutors say the Chicago man who carjacked a Northwest Side auto dealership salesman during a test drive last year was caught because he gave the dealership a fake driver’s license that bore the picture from his real driver’s license.

At least 14 robbed in violent, hour-long robbery spree overnight; 78-year-old beaten by muggers

September 21, 2023 5:46 AM

Carloads of robbers committed an hour-long string of robberies from the North Side to downtown Chicago this morning, robbing at least 14 people, many of whom were physically attacked.

Another man charged in sprawling $6 million Home Depot gift card scam

September 20, 2023 8:08 PM

Another person faces felony charges for allegedly participating in a years-long gift card scam that cost Chicago area Home Depot stores more than $6 million.

Jogger finds fisherman badly beaten and robbed at Montrose Harbor

September 20, 2023 7:19 PM

A 60-year-old man is in serious condition after being attacked and robbed as he fished near Montrose Harbor on Wednesday morning. Chicago police are still looking for the three offenders.