Douglas
Month: April 2026
South Loop
Strip club gunman’s home curfew counts as prison time, reducing his 5-year sentence to 13 days.
A Chicago man has been given a five-year prison sentence for shooting a bouncer outside a West Loop strip club, but because the state automatically reduces most sentences by 50% and he already spent nearly 2½ years under a nighttime curfew at home, he is expected to be released after serving 13 days in an actual prison.
Gold Coast
2 charged with kidnapping, robbing man as he left Gold Coast bar may have targeted other victims, prosecutors say
A man kidnapped at gunpoint after leaving a Gold Coast bar last month caught an extraordinary break during the terrifying ordeal: prosecutors say he found a previous robbery victim’s cellphone inside his abductors’ SUV and secretly hid it so he could call for help when the chance came. Now, two men are charged in that case and could face additional charges in a string of similar robberies.
Norwood Park
West Town
Bucktown
CTA
Austin
Citywide
Chicago man gets 25 years for running ISIS propaganda network, hacking Twitter accounts to spread terror content
A 41-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Thursday after a judge in Chicago found he spent more than a year managing an online media operation that produced propaganda for the Islamic State, encouraged lone-wolf attacks in Western countries, and hacked Twitter accounts to blast out extremist content to unsuspecting users.
Magnificent Mile
Citywide
Avalon Park
Chatham
‘Nova’s Exotic Beverages’ was actually a 24-hour fentanyl and cocaine operation, feds say
A South Side drug crew distributed business cards for “Nova’s Exotic Beverages” to advertise the fentanyl and cocaine they sold from a Chatham apartment while storing inventory, cash, and firearms, including machine gun conversion devices, at a nearby stash house, according to newly unsealed federal court records.