Month: December 2023

Two off-duty Chicago police officers have been robbed at gunpoint since Saturday evening, the latest in a string of CPD officers who’ve been mugged during the city’s surging robbery problem.

At least three people were robbed during a 2-hour crime spree that stretched from Lakeview to Wicker Park on Sunday morning. Similar incidents were also reported in some of those areas on Saturday.

A Cook County judge rejected a prosecution request to detain a man who’s accused of robbing, pistol-whipping, and threatening to kill a Chicago man.

Chicago police say a man is being uncooperative after he was shot during a party inside a Lakeview home overnight.

Another robbery victim was shot during a holdup on Friday afternoon, Chicago police said, making him at least the seventh person shot during robberies since last Saturday.

Seven ride-share drivers have been robbed and two others have been killed on the West Side of Chicago since December 3.

A Rogers Park woman faces hate crime charges after witnesses told police she defaced buildings in the neighborhood this week, Chicago police said.

Prosecutors say a Chicago man with an extensive juvenile criminal history, who’s currently on probation for auto theft, teamed up with a 17-year-old to physically attack and rob another man at gunpoint this week.

A federal fugitive task force arrested a Chicago man to face murder charges as he tried to board a flight from O’Hare International Airport to Africa with a one-way ticket, officials said.

A suburban man has become the first person to be arrested and have two cars impounded for allegedly spinning donuts in Chicago.