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Video image shows the scene moments after this morning’s crash. | Snapchat Charges are pending against a 25-year-old man who police say is responsible for a head-on collision Thursday morning along Boystown’s Halsted Street bar strip. The man was driving southbound on the 3500 block of North Halsted at a high rate of speed around

Video image shows the scene moments after this morning’s crash. | Snapchat UPDATE: An update to this story is posted here. UPDATE 2: Felony DUI charges have been filed. Other driver has died following surgery. LINK ————– Investigators are trying to determine if alcohol was a factor in a two-car traffic crash on Boystown’s Halsted

A robbery alert has been issued for Lakeview East after police determined that two recent hold-ups in the area were likely the work of one man. Meanwhile, an unrelated robbery was reported in the Boystown neighborhood early Sunday. Police said in their alert that an armed robbery in the 600 block of West Oakdale following

Four people who refused to buy drugs from a couple on the street in Boystown early Sunday were then threatened with a handgun, police said. Charges have been filed. The four victims were walking southbound in the 3500 block of North Halsted at 4:05 a.m. when a 17-year-old girl and 21-year-old Christopher Battie approached them

Pickpockets stole property from at least six women in Boystown-area bars over Pride Parade weekend, police said late Monday in a community alert. The thefts came one week after more than 30 people lost phones and other property to pickpockets while attending the neighborhood’s annual Pride Fest. CWBChicago told you about the Pride Fest theft

Google With the Chicago Pride Parade just 3 days away, city inspectors have closed the Boystown IHOP location, accusing the restaurant of failing to correct issues that were discovered during a series of inspections, according to reports from the Department of Public Health. The city suspension notice. | Provided City workers slapped a fluorescent green

A Chicago Heights man was stabbed in the head during a robbery on Boystown’s Halsted Street bar strip early Sunday morning, police said. An accomplice reportedly bit another man on the lip and knocked him in the head with some type of hard object that was hidden in a bag. No one is in custody.

Shane Sleeper pleaded guilty to threatening staff members of Sidetrack and other victims. | CPD; DNAInfo Editors note: This report conveys the content of threatening messages that prosecutors say were transmitted by Shane Sleeper. We have not corrected spelling, grammar, or punctuation in the messages cited. The man accused of making terroristic threats against a

A police officer is battered after being pepper sprayed by a suspect in Boystown early Saturday. | Provided A Chicago police POD camera captured video of police officers being pepper sprayed and battered as they tried to arrest a man who is accused of beating a Boystown resident with a hammer during an online hook-up last

Cedrick Johnson was arrested outside of Beatnix costume shop in Boystown. | CPD; Google A Lakeview man who initially refused to press charges after being beaten with a hammer during an online hook-up Friday evening had a change of heart and decided to prosecute after the alleged offender injured several officers during a confrontation in the heart