Gold Coast Archives

Police seeking to identify one (1) looting suspect

June 16, 2020 8:52 AM Tim Hecke

Chicago police are looking for a woman who they say burglarized an Oak Street boutique during widespread looting on May 31, 2020.

2 charged with Gold Coast auto burglaries

April 30, 2020 6:48 PM Tim Hecke

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 Tim Hecke

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 Tim Hecke

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 Tim Hecke

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 Tim Hecke

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 Tim Hecke

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 Tim Hecke

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.

Fight between Venezuelan, Afghan high schoolers was the result of ‘cultural differences,’ not a hate crime, alderwoman claims

October 1, 2023 10:06 PM

Venezuelan students attacked with a baseball bat were involved in “cultural differences” with Afghan students, Rogers Park alderwoman says.

Bad luck: Man shot in Humboldt Park faces felony charge after Chicago cops allegedly found a gun under his body

October 1, 2023 4:14 PM

A Humboldt Park man faces a felony charge after Chicago cops who found him shot allegedly discovered a handgun under his body.

Car burglar arrested in Lincoln Park after cops mistook altercation for a robbery: CPD

October 1, 2023 3:19 PM

When neighbors and Chicago cops saw a masked man and a group of people having an altercation in Lincoln Park early Saturday morning, everyone thought a robbery was in progress.