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Armed robbery teams returned Saturday morning, targeting 7 victims from Bucktown to Little Village

January 21, 2023 10:15 PM CWBChicago

After taking a few days off, Chicago’s armed robbery crews returned Saturday morning for another crime spree that stretched from Bucktown and Logan Square to Little Village and West Town.

Serial burglar stole doorbell camera, threatened victim, and even took gifts from under a Christmas tree, prosecutors say

January 20, 2023 5:33 AM CWBChicago

A Chicago woman with a colorful criminal history is accused of committing a string of burglaries from Bucktown to Lakeview, threatening a victim who posted surveillance images of her on social media, and even stealing gifts from under the Christmas tree in an occupied home.

Chicago judge lectures attorney for calling church burglary a crime of poverty: ‘that’s an affront to poor people’

January 19, 2023 3:27 PM CWBChicago

A Chicago judge cautioned a defense attorney against calling burglaries of churches and schools “crimes of poverty” during a bail hearing for Hannibal Kerry on Thursday.

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January 15, 2023 1:22 PM CWBChicago

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8 years after a Bucktown woman was sexually assaulted in her home, a man is charged

January 1, 2023 11:01 AM CWBChicago

More than eight years after a Bucktown woman reported that she had been sexually assaulted in her apartment, prosecutors on Friday filed felony charges against a Chicago man who was first linked to the crime by DNA evidence in 2016.

Despite several arrests, armed robbery crews have returned to Chicago’s hard-hit Near West Side

December 22, 2022 3:36 PM CWBChicago

Two men salting a West Town sidewalk and an 80-year-old man are among at least nine people who were robbed at gunpoint during two holdup sprees Wednesday night and Thursday morning, mainly in West Town, Bucktown, and Logan Square, according to Chicago police. There were seven robberies reported in the same areas on Sunday morning.

9-time convicted burglar broke into a Rogers Park home while on bail for breaking into a Bucktown home, prosecutors say

December 22, 2022 6:31 AM CWBChicago

A nine-time convicted felon burglarized a Rogers Park home while he was on bail for burglarizing a home in Bucktown, prosecutors in Chicago said.

2 teens charged with robberies in Bucktown, Near West Side

December 19, 2022 5:21 AM CWBChicago

Two juvenile boys have been charged with participating in a robbery spree Friday morning that stretched from Bucktown to the Near West Side

Armed carjackers who targeted 70-year-old in Lincoln Park have struck again (and again and again), officials say

December 15, 2022 10:04 AM CWBChicago

The armed robbery crew that targeted a 70-year-old woman in Lincoln Park on Wednesday afternoon has committed several similar holdups and carjackings in the past five days, including at least one more on Wednesday night in Bucktown, according to Chicago police and a law enforcement source.

4 robbery suspects in custody after fiery crash on Chicago’s North Side

December 12, 2022 2:07 PM CWBChicago

A carload of suspected armed robbers committed a series of holdups in Bucktown and the North Side, then crashed into a truck in Lincoln Square as Chicago police officers closed in on them Monday morning. Four suspects are in custody after running from the flaming wreckage, and police recovered at least two firearms.