Gold Coast Archives

2 charged with Gold Coast auto burglaries

April 30, 2020 6:48 PM CWBChicago

Prosecutors said Larry McGee and Willis Baker broke into four vehicles on the first block of East Scott Street in the Gold Coast early Wednesday.

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More carjackings reported as police promise crackdown: “The criminal justice system has to get serious about how they deal with some of these juveniles.”

February 22, 2020 9:53 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police will reconstitute a multi-agency task force to reverse a rise in carjackings this year. On Friday evening, a 72-year-old man was punched and robbed of his car in the latest hijacking.

Wild: Armed robbery crew pulls off 3 carjackings, 3 armed robberies in less than 5 hours, cops believe

February 20, 2020 7:10 AM CWBChicago

The armed men started with a carjacking on the Far North Side, then moved to the Gold Coast, Loop, South Loop, and — police believe — Fulton Market and River North.

CPD putting “cops on the dots” with temporary 50-officer train patrol

February 12, 2020 10:27 AM CWBChicago

About 50 cops will be pulled from districts across the city to patrol CTA’s train system from from Mar. 5 through Memorial Day as authorities try to reverse a 3-year surge in violent crime aboard Chicago’s transit lines

2 men shot on Lake Shore Drive near Oak Street overnight

January 8, 2020 8:10 AM CWBChicago

Two men said they were shot by an occupant of another vehicle as they drove southbound on Lake Shore Drive just north of Oak Street Beach around 1 a.m.

Man sexually assaulted two women who invited him to Gold Coast apartment, prosecutors say

November 13, 2019 9:07 AM CWBChicago

The man allegedly sexually assaulted the women as they slept after he joined them at a Gold Coast apartment, police said.

Video: Shoplifting mob hits Gold Coast 7-Eleven

September 22, 2019 11:27 PM CWBChicago

Surveillance images show seven young men entering the store at 1036 North Dearborn around 1:30 p.m. After checking things out, three of them step around the counter, walk right past the clerk, and start stuffing bags with cigarettes and other merchandise.