Edgewater Archives

3 shootings in an hour leave 1 dead, 2 injured Tuesday afternoon

May 23, 2023 7:28 PM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating three shootings that occurred in under an hour on Tuesday afternoon. Shootings were reported in Uptown, Edgewater, and inside Hollywood Park in North Park.

Man gets 3½ years for robbing student outside Edgewater school

May 17, 2023 2:08 AM CWBChicago

A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to 3½ years for trying to rob a student outside a Chicago Public School in Edgewater.

Two Chicago men head back to prison for burglarizing fitness center locker rooms. Again.

April 30, 2023 1:44 PM CWBChicago

Two Chicago men with long histories of burglarizing fitness center locker rooms are back in prison for doing it again.

Carjackers take two vehicles from North Center man

April 25, 2023 6:46 AM CWBChicago

A man was carjacked of not one, but two vehicles in North Center on Monday night, according to Chicago police. Carjackings were also reported in Edgewater and Humboldt Park overnight.

North Side man robbed 2 banks, bragged about it in Instagram chats, FBI says: ‘I walked into a bank and I robbed it. It was nuts’

April 17, 2023 8:34 PM CWBChicago

A Chicago man faces federal bank robbery charges after he allegedly admitted to the crime in an Instagram chat.

Man shot while walking in Edgewater

March 25, 2023 5:15 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating after a man was shot in the Edgewater neighborhood on Friday night.

A couple was carjacked in Edgewater early Tuesday, but hijacking reports are sliding from record highs

March 7, 2023 8:15 PM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating after a couple was carjacked at gunpoint in Edgewater on Tuesday.

15-year-old shot in Edgewater this morning, police say

March 7, 2023 8:47 AM CWBChicago

A 15-year-old boy was in Edgewater on Tuesday morning, Chicago police said. No suspects are in custody, but police have located the gunman’s car.

Liquor store burglary crew hits the city again overnight; cops link dozens of cases to the group

February 27, 2023 9:53 AM CWBChicago

An armed burglary crew that has struck dozens of liquor stores during overnight raids across Chicago over the past month was back in action Monday morning.

Serial robber busted after angry ex-boyfriend turned him in, prosecutors say

February 25, 2023 8:45 AM CWBChicago

A Chicago man exacted a little revenge by notifying Chicago police that his ex-boyfriend was responsible for a string of robberies on the North Side in which the offender escaped in a U-Haul truck.

Girl, 2, accidentally shot herself in Rogers Park, police say

May 28, 2023 8:39 PM

A 2-year-old girl shot herself in the hand after finding a firearm inside a Rogers Park apartment on Sunday afternoon, according to initial information from Chicago police.

No bail for Chicago ‘peacekeeper’ charged with beating, robbing man in Little Village

May 28, 2023 12:07 PM

A Chicago man who wore a neon yellow “peacekeepers” vest helped a group of people beat and rob a motorist in Little Village on Friday night, according to a Chicago Police Department report.

Chicago man tried to sexually assault woman on Blue Line, touched second woman: prosecutors

May 28, 2023 6:32 AM

CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a Chicago man with repeatedly punching a woman during an attempted sexual assault aboard a Blue Line train and inappropriately touching another woman on the train line the next night.