Andersonville

Approximate locations of the crew’s crimes. A two-man carjacking crew that struck in Lakeview and Andersonville on Monday returned on Tuesday night with robbery attempts in Lincoln Park and North Center. They remain on the loose. Police said a Lincoln Park man was driving near the 2500 block of North Bosworth when his car was

Last night’s carjacking took place here, at the intersection of Rush and Pearson. | Google Detectives are investigating a carjacking reported late Monday night  just a block from the Magnificent Mile and the “Viagra Triangle.” No one is in custody. It was at least the third carjacking on the North Side yesterday. Police said a

Armed carjackers who forced two men from their vehicle on an Andersonville side street Monday afternoon may be the same offenders who carjacked a man in Lakeview earlier in the day, according to a police department source. According to information provided by police and a friend of the victims, a man and his partner were

Skywalker shoes (left) and Andersonville Wine and Spirits | Yelp! Two Andersonville businesses were targeted by burglars early Saturday, police said. The same crew is suspected of pulling off both break-ins. First, two men broke through the front door of Skywalker shoes, 5668 North Clark around 3:25 a.m. The men collected boxes of athletic shoes

Chicago police have issued a community alert after a man tried to lure a 13-year-old boy into his car near the border of Uptown and Andersonville Tuesday morning. The boy was walking in the 5100 block of North Clark around 8 a.m. when a  man in a dark blue four-door vehicle pulled up and told

The usually sleepy Andersonville neighborhood is at the center of a police robbery alert after three victims were robbed at gunpoint last Thursday. In each case, victims have been approached on the street by two offenders who are armed with a handgun, police said. The first victim was robbed outside of Pauline’s Restaurant, police said.

Photo of the TCF robber in action yesterday afternoon.  Yep. It was her. A woman who has robbed the TCF Bank inside Boystown’s Jewel-Osco twice in the past year struck on the North Side yesterday afternoon. Now dubbed the “Shady Bandit” by the FBI, the woman held up the TCF Bank inside Andersonville’s Jewel-Osco Thursday.