Boystown

A Boystown resident has been sentenced to two years for stealing packages and other items from an apartment building mailroom in the North Side Chicago neighborhood.

Chicago police are trying to identify the burglar who broke into a Boystown courtyard building on Friday afternoon.

Chicago police are investigating after a man was severely beaten by three men armed with various weapons in Boystown early Monday. The victim is in critical condition.

Prosecutors say a man dropped a loaded firearm inside an Uber in Boystown and then ditched a second gun in the back of a taxi when police approached him moments later on Halsted Street.

A Chicago man on bail for a felony gun case brought a firearm into a Boystown bar over the weekend and got caught because witnesses saw him drop the gun on the floor over and over again, prosecutors said.

Two young men found dead in a Boystown alley this summer died from accidental overdoses of cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.