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Exclusive: “Flash mob robbery crews” are responsible for waves of hold-ups across the city, sources reveal

December 17, 2021 CWBChicago

Investigators now believe “flash mob robbery crews” are responsible for months of robberies stretching from West Town to Uptown, with Lakeview and Lincoln Park being their latest hunting grounds.

Bucktown

Shots fired during Bucktown robbery as cops eye links to Lakeview, Lincoln Park hold-up sprees

December 13, 2021 CWBChicago

An armed robbery team fired gunshots as they robbed a group of peple who were walking in Bucktown early Sunday morning, according to police. The same team is suspected of robbing another group of three people who were walking in West Town minutes earlier.

Bucktown

Police safely detain man who allegedly attacked an officer and grabbed cops’ guns during apparent suicide attempt

December 8, 2021 CWBChicago

A 23-year-old man attacked and tried to disarm a Chicago police officer outside the Shakespeare (14th) District station in Logan Square on Saturday afternoon, prosecutors said.

Bucktown

Bucktown burglars get away with high-end bikes worth thou$and$ — but their plan had some holes in it

December 4, 2021 CWBChicago

Three burglars broke into BFF Bikes early Tuesday and got away with several very expensive bicycles. But surveillance video provided to CWBChicago shows the men weren’t as sly as they thought they were.

Boystown

Cops found credit cards belonging to 32 people in fake Uber driver’s car, authorities say

November 22, 2021 CWBChicago

Chicago police detectives allegedly found 32 credit cards belonging to 32 different people in the car of a man who’s accused of operating a fake rideshare vehicle in the city’s nightlife districts.

Bucktown

At least 4 robbery and carjacking patterns are active in Wicker Park, Bucktown, and West Town, police say

November 5, 2021 CWBChicago

Chicago police detectives have identified at least four separate robbery patterns that are active in West Town, Wicker Park, Bucktown, and nearby neighborhoods.

Bucktown

8 more victims robbed in 5 hold-ups across West Town, Bucktown, and Wicker Park

November 4, 2021 CWBChicago

At least eight more people were targeted in muggings and carjackings from Wednesday afternoon into the early hours of Thursday across the robbery-plagued West Town community area.

Bucktown

73-year-old woman among 9 robbed from Bucktown to West Loop

November 3, 2021 CWBChicago

A 73-year-old woman is among nine people who were targeted as another wave of armed robberies rolled through Bucktown, Wicker Park, West Town, and the West Loop on Tuesday evening.

Bucktown

Bucktown dad is carjacked at gunpoint while loading child into the family car — and it’s all on video

October 31, 2021 CWBChicago

An armed carjacker took a Bucktown man’s SUV at gunpoint as the victim loaded his young child into the family car on Halloween morning — and it was all captured on video.

Bucktown

Volkswagen linked to a series of robberies in Wicker Park and Bucktown slams into a cop car on the North Side

October 30, 2021 CWBChicago

A stolen Volkswagen Jetta that has been used in a series of robberies across Bucktown, Wicker Park, and other parts of West Town was found abandoned in Ravenswood.

Bucktown

At least 9 people were robbed in two waves of armed hold-ups from Bucktown to Little Italy last night

October 28, 2021 CWBChicago

At least nine robberies were reported in two waves Wednesday evening and early Thursday across Wicker Park, Bucktown, West Town, and the Near West Side, according to CPD reports.

Bucktown

Bucktown woman foils carjacking by leaning on the horn; Logan Square woman not so lucky

October 27, 2021 CWBChicago

A Bucktown woman foiled an armed carjacking by leaning on her car horn when the hijacker pointed a gun at her Monday morning.

Bucktown

Gunmen sweep through Bucktown on a 10-minute crime spree; at least a dozen armed robberies in the area over the past two weeks

October 25, 2021 CWBChicago

A group of armed men threatened one victim with a gun and robbed two others within about 10 minutes Sunday morning in Bucktown.

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