Articles by Tim Hecke

About Tim Hecke

Tim Hecke is CWBChicago's managing partner. He started his career at KMOX, the legendary news radio station in St. Louis. From there, he moved on to work at stations in Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. Tim went on to build syndicated radio news and content services that served every one of America's 100 largest radio markets. He became CWBChicago's managing partner in 2019. His email address is tim@cwbchicago.com

30 years for the man who shot a CTA bus driver in downtown Chicago

December 9, 2023 8:30 AM Tim Hecke

A Chicago man was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison for shooting an on-duty CTA bus driver during an altercation in the Loop two years ago.

Man with ‘extensive criminal history’ knocked Red Line passenger unconscious for standing too close to his bike: prosecutors

December 8, 2023 7:42 AM Tim Hecke

Officials say a Chicago man with an extensive criminal history knocked a CTA passenger unconscious because the victim was standing near his bicycle on a Red Line train in the Loop.

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

December 7, 2023 2:21 PM Tim Hecke

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 Tim Hecke

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.

Repeat DUI driver ‘nearly killed’ motorcyclist, judge says before ordering him jailed

December 6, 2023 9:15 AM Tim Hecke

A Chicago man who was severely injured in a crash while driving drunk in 2012 will be detained to await trial after prosecutors accused him of badly injuring a motorcyclist while driving drunk this summer.

Drug dealer kept a gun and $60,000 worth of heroin and crack inside a West Loop homeless camp tent, prosecutors say

December 5, 2023 8:13 PM Tim Hecke

Prosecutors say a man who sold drugs to an undercover cop had more than $60,000 worth of heroin and crack and a loaded handgun with an extended magazine inside a homeless camp tent that he dealt out of.

Chicago cops didn’t file a report, watched TV in squad car after random attacker killed man on Mag Mile: internal affairs report

December 5, 2023 2:46 AM Tim Hecke

Chicago police officers face suspensions after an internal affairs investigation found they failed to even file basic reports after a River North man was fatally attacked on the Mag Mile in June.

Failed crash-and-grab at Neiman Marcus is linked to citywide pattern of similar crimes, Chicago police say

December 4, 2023 6:33 PM Tim Hecke

The crash-and-grab burglary crew that slammed a car into a Magnificent Mile department store early Monday is the same group that has committed similar crimes recently downtown, in West Town, and in Wicker Park, Chicago police say.

Feds charge 2 with killing man outside ‘Youth Peace Center’ (one was on bail for a gun case)

December 4, 2023 5:59 PM Tim Hecke

Two Chicago men, including one who was on bail for a Class X felony gun case, have been indicted in federal court in a murder-for-hire scheme that left a man dead outside a youth peace center nearly two years ago.

Burglar who stole $85,000 worth of booze from River North bars gets 4-year sentence

December 1, 2023 10:04 AM Tim Hecke

A Chicago man with a history of theft and burglary convictions pleaded guilty on Thursday to burglaries in which prosecutors said he stole $85,000 worth of alcohol from three River North restaurants and bars.

15-year-old stabbed a man on the Red Line, Chicago police say

December 7, 2023 7:30 AM

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with stabbing a man on a Red Line train in Lincoln Park last month, according to Chicago police.

Man killed near West Loop homeless camp, 2nd shooting at troubled intersection in a month

December 7, 2023 6:33 AM

A man was shot and killed in the West Loop overnight, just steps from a homeless camp that the local alderman has said is a catalyst for violent crime in the area. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has reportedly withheld assistance in cleaning up the area because the local alderman refused to link his votes on key legislation to the clean-up effort.

Chicago man violated gun probation by getting another gun and shooting a man to death, prosecutors say

December 6, 2023 8:19 PM

A Chicago man on first-time weapon offender probation is accused of getting another gun and shooting a man 11 times, killing him.