Loop Archives

Exclusive video shows bank robber collecting loose cash after shootout with guard in downtown Chicago

March 9, 2023 4:54 PM CWBChicago

A downtown Chicago office worker captured amazing video as a bank robber collected loose cash from the ground after having a shootout with a bank security guard on Thursday afternoon.

Bank robber exchanges gunfire with security guard in downtown Chicago

March 9, 2023 3:36 PM CWBChicago

Shots were fired during a bank robbery in the Loop on Thursday afternoon, but no serious injuries were reported. The offender remains at large.

Woman returns while ‘Kia Boy’ is stealing her car in Loop parking garage. So, he carjacks her instead.

March 7, 2023 9:20 AM CWBChicago

A “Kia Boy” turned into a carjacker when the owner of the car’s owner caught him trying to steal her vehicle inside a downtown Chicago parking garage.

9-time felon battered girl at Loop CTA station — while on parole for viciously attacking a Red Line passenger

March 5, 2023 8:51 AM CWBChicago

A man on parole for participating in the vicious beating and robbery of a Red Line passenger in 2020 battered and threatened to “bash in” the head of a 16-year-old girl on a downtown Chicago CTA platform last month, prosecutors said.

Armed men rob sandwich shops in Lakeview, Loop as possible crime pattern emerges

March 3, 2023 10:54 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are looking for possible connections between the late-night robberies of two sandwich shops, one in the Loop and the other near Boystown.

New details of ‘Puffy Coat Bandits’ emerge as prosecutors formally charge ‘ringleader’

March 2, 2023 5:00 PM CWBChicago

New details were revealed about the unfortunately-named “Puffy Coat Bandit” restaurant theft crew as prosecutors charged a man identified as a group leader with four counts of felony theft from persons in Chicago.

Man charged with robbing, battering CTA passengers in the Loop

February 27, 2023 3:06 PM CWBChicago

A man charged last week with punching a 15-year-old in the face on a Blue Line train in the Loop was back in bond court over the weekend after Chicago police determined that he was also responsible for robbing a man on a CTA train in January.

15-year-old robbed man at knifepoint inside Loop parking garage

February 25, 2023 1:44 PM CWBChicago

A 15-year-old boy robbed a man at knifepoint inside a Loop parking garage on Friday evening, according to Chicago police.

Hate crime charge for man who added ‘Black Line’ to list of CTA trains available in the Loop: prosecutors

February 24, 2023 7:11 PM CWBChicago

A Chicago man who allegedly used a Sharpie to add the “Black Line” to a list of CTA train routes available at the Clark-Lake station is facing a felony hate crime charge.

Chicago police warn of robbery pattern in Loop, South Loop

February 23, 2023 8:25 AM CWBChicago

Two men have been mugging people this month in the Loop and South Loop, mostly along Michigan Avenue, according to a new alert from the Chicago Police Department.