Chinatown
Month: April 2025
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River North
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Loop
Suburban man robbed Loop bank 2x after losing his job at Walmart: FBI
A suburban man faces federal bank robbery charges after the FBI accused him of holding up a Citibank branch in the Loop twice in two weeks. Investigators identified Jason Paniagua after the first robbery but didn’t get around to arresting him until he robbed the bank at 69 West Washington a second time on Tuesday morning, officials said.
River North
Citywide
Chicago cop pleads guilty to evading police during off-duty traffic stop
A Chicago police officer has been given court supervision and ordered to perform community service for an off-duty incident in which he allegedly drove recklessly and evaded on-duty cops who tried to pull him over. Body camera footage of the same officer’s behavior during a previous traffic stop went viral in 2021.
Magnificent Mile
Pilsen
Logan Square
Citywide
Problem-plagued electronic monitoring program has become ‘a serious threat to public safety’ top Cook County prosecutor says
Cook County’s electronic monitoring program has become “a serious threat to public safety” because the office of Chief Judge Timothy Evans, which recently assumed responsibility for its operation, is not equipped or prepared to handle it. That’s according to the county’s top prosecutor, Eileen O’Neill Burke.