Near North Archives

Cops: 3 more Red Line muggers arrested as police mop up CTA train crime surge

April 15, 2020 12:18 PM CWBChicago

Police arrested Ein Julian at the Jackson Red Line in connection with an earlier robbery at the same Loop train station. At least 7 violent crimes have been reported on the downtown train system in the past two weeks. Charges have been filed in most of the cases.

Boys — ages 12 and 13 — charged with armed robbery on Red Line

April 14, 2020 8:18 AM CWBChicago

Police arrested three boys in connection with the armed robbery of a CTA passenger on the Clark-Division Red Line platform Monday evening. Charges have been filed against two of the offenders, who are only 12- and 13-years-old.

4-year sentence for felon who had gun near River North “shots fired” incident

April 7, 2020 5:07 PM CWBChicago

Police said they found a handgun in Isaiah Ayala’s SUV moments after shots were fired near a River North nightclub in March 2019.

Uncommon sense: Cop warn against leaving your car running and unoccupied

April 3, 2020 2:54 PM CWBChicago

Chicago police say at least five unattended, running cars have been stolen in River North and Streeterville since March 19.

Man charged with burglarizing Loop sports bar during COVID-19 shutdown

April 1, 2020 2:38 PM CWBChicago

Jerry Brown allegedly burglarized Flight Club, 111 West Wacker, and then told police that he only went inside to use the bathroom. The restaurant-bar has been closed since March 15 due to COVID-19.

Juvenile charged with three armed robberies, gun possession

March 31, 2020 12:39 AM CWBChicago

The teen is charged with robbing convenience stores in Lincoln Park and Little Italy last week and also robbing a man in West Town on Monday afternoon.

Cops warn of robberies at North-Clybourn Red Line station and in Lincoln Park

March 28, 2020 9:52 AM CWBChicago

Three robberies have been reported at the North-Clybourn Red Line station and another unfolded in Lincoln Park, police said.

Streeterville: Woman mugged while walking along Lake Shore Drive

March 26, 2020 2:37 PM CWBChicago

The woman, age 52, told police she was robbed while she walked along the 600 block of North Lake Shore Drive.

Woman robbed on North-Clybourn Red Line platform

March 25, 2020 2:33 AM CWBChicago

The robber pulled out a knife and robbed the woman as she waited for a train at the North-Clybourn Red Line station, police said.

Felon charged with having 3 guns at Streeterville hotel party

March 24, 2020 9:08 AM CWBChicago

James Beecham is charged with having three guns in a hotel room party at the Residence Inn after someone reported guns, drugs, and “lots of females” in attendance.

Man spent 20 hours in jail after alderman signed a criminal complaint without reading it (body cam video)

December 7, 2023 2:21 PM

Newly-acquired Chicago police body camera video shows an Albany Park man being arrested for battering a Chicago alderman at a River North bar, even though the alderman says that’s not what happened.

Following overnight murder, West Loop alderman puts mayor’s office on blast: ’eminently foreseeable that someone was going to get killed’

December 7, 2023 12:22 PM

Ald. Bill Conway put Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office on blast Thursday, hours after a man was murdered steps from a homeless camp the alderman has been trying to get Johnson’s office to address.

Package thieves blasted victim with bear spray: Chicago police report

December 7, 2023 8:18 AM

Two North Siders blasted a woman in the face with bear spray while stealing packages from her apartment building vestibule, according to a Chicago police report.