Andersonville

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.