A six-time convicted felon doubled his felony conviction total to 12 on Monday by pleading guilty to committing six robberies and burglaries on the city’s Northwest Side, primarily at restaurants, in late 2023.
A Jefferson Park woman accused of randomly attacking victims with a baseball bat and trying to run one of them over with her car was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Wednesday. Denise Solorzano, 28, remains on electronic monitoring. She will be back in court next month as officials work to determine what treatment, if any, she needs going forward.
In a pair of warnings issued late last year, detectives linked a single burglary crew to at least 30 business burglaries in neighborhoods stretching from Beverly to Wicker Park to Jefferson Park. Now, prosecutors have charged one man with participating in some of those crimes.
It was quite a weekend for businesses on the city’s Northwest Side, and not in a positive way. A burglary crew broke into at least eight storefronts to steal cash registers and break into ATMs, according to Chicago police.
A Chicago man is in jail, accused of shooting another driver’s car on the Kennedy Expressway, after his alleged victim gave cops his easy-to-remember license plate: MCLOVN6.
The latest warning from Chicago police about the city’s seemingly endless supply of armed robbery crews involves a group of up to eight armed men who’ve committed at least 15 holdups during two sprees in three days.
Four men attacked and robbed a woman in Jefferson Park, then returned and tortured her with a Taser until she surrendered her bank card PIN, according to details in a Chicago police arrest report.
For the fourth time in 24 hours, armed men went on a crime spree Monday evening, robbing and carjacking victims in the Gold Coast, Bucktown, and Lincoln Park, according to Chicago police reports. The group may also be responsible for burglarizing a smoke shop on the Northwest Side overnight.
Anti-Semitic flyers were placed on cars along two blocks in Lincoln Park this week, a Chicago alderman says. Similar incidents have been reported elsewhere in the city.
A Skokie man shot a Chicago woman at point-blank range during an argument on the Northwest Side after she said he wouldn’t do anything to her because they were in a “nice white neighborhood,” prosecutors say.