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Breaking: In wake of Lakeview bar shooting, wrongful death suit filed against Walsh Security

July 30, 2020 8:39 AM CWBChicago

Walsh Security and one of its guards is being sued by the family of Mario Dingillo, who was fatally shot near Bluelight Bar in Roscoe Village last year.

Déjà vu: Not Walsh’s First Dance With Unlicensed Security

September 5, 2017 5:17 AM CWBChicago

Editor Note: This is a supplemental report to our exclusive investigation into the use of tax money to pay an unlicensed security company with connections to a Chicago cop for private patrols in Lakeview. See our main report HERE. Also Related A&T Security: Suddenly NOT Security After All Raw Info: Documents Received In Response To FOIA Request

Chicago cop operated an unlicensed security company, used CPD database to look up people the firm ‘encountered,’ inspector general says

October 17, 2022 12:16 PM CWBChicago

A Lakeview-based Chicago police officer operated an unlicensed private security company, helped run a second unlicensed security firm with his children and used Chicago Police Department resources in the operation of both companies, the Chicago Office of Inspector General says in its latest quarterly report. .

Defund the security team? Citing changing times and advice from police, Boystown businesses may nix armed patrols

May 6, 2021 3:22 PM CWBChicago

A business group that represents businesses in Boystown may pull the plug on its long-time armed security patrol as attitudes toward policing change and the Chicago Police Department itself suggests better ways for it to spend money, according to a recent presentation.

Years — YEARS — after learning of problems with their security contractor, Boystown business group cuts ties

June 22, 2020 12:18 PM CWBChicago

The Northalsted Business Alliance has severed ties with Walsh Security years after CWBChicago exclusively reported that the company’s owner was under investigation for a race-fueled battery of a Black doorman in Boystown, among other problems.

Boystown business group re-ups with controversial security firm

March 17, 2020 8:35 PM CWBChicago

The Northalsted Business Alliance plans to continue using Walsh Security even after racial equality activists successfully campaigned to have the company replaced at a local LGBTQ service agency.

Exclusive: Newly-hired Center on Halsted security company lacks state licenses, regulators say

February 26, 2020 1:45 AM CWBChicago

Quantum Security is not licensed to provide security services in Illinois, regulators say. The Center on Halsted also hired its previous security contractor before the company had required licenses.

Center on Halsted spikes long-time security firm, owned by embattled Lakeview cop

January 23, 2020 1:51 AM CWBChicago

The Center on Halsted will replace long-time contractor Walsh Security with a new company, the LGBTQ agency announced Wednesday. The move comes more than two years after CWBChicago published a series of exclusive reports about Walsh Security.

Two years after our exposé, Center on Halsted looks for new security firm

October 6, 2019 5:23 PM CWBChicago

The request for proposals comes more than two years after CWBChicago exclusively reported on allegations that Officer Thomas Walsh battered a black doorman in a Boystown bar during a race-fueled incident on the day after Thanksgiving 2013.

Cubs, Marathon Security Firm Loses License And NFL Contract In Minnesota; “Hundreds And Hundreds And Hundreds” Of Personnel Problems

October 5, 2017 7:02 PM CWBChicago

A local company that provides security for Wrigley Field and the Chicago Marathon has lost its license to operate in Minnesota after an investigation found widespread hiring irregularities, inadequate training, and double-billing. Monterrey CEO Juan Gaytán outside Wrigley Field Monterrey Security’s contract to provide guards for Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium, home of the Minnesota Vikings,

Man spent 20 hours in jail after alderman signed a criminal complaint without reading it (body cam video)

December 7, 2023 2:21 PM

Newly-acquired Chicago police body camera video shows an Albany Park man being arrested for battering a Chicago alderman at a River North bar, even though the alderman says that’s not what happened.

Following overnight murder, West Loop alderman puts mayor’s office on blast: ’eminently foreseeable that someone was going to get killed’

December 7, 2023 12:22 PM

Ald. Bill Conway put Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office on blast Thursday, hours after a man was murdered steps from a homeless camp the alderman has been trying to get Johnson’s office to address.

Package thieves blasted victim with bear spray: Chicago police report

December 7, 2023 8:18 AM

Two North Siders blasted a woman in the face with bear spray while stealing packages from her apartment building vestibule, according to a Chicago police report.