River North

Robberies are up 46% and there have been more shooting this year than 2014 through 2020 combined. But the Near North District commander says social media is what’s fueling a “perception” of an increase in violence.

The victim told police he ran to the Loop to get help after someone stabbed him at a River North restaurant Tuesday morning.

A Michigan man who was arrested with a gun minutes after a River North nightclub employee was shot Friday night has been “excluded as the shooter at this time.”

A River North hotel desk clerk stabbed a visiting New York City firefighter during a dispute over a room reservation on Thursday evening, prosecutors said. But the accused man’s attorney claimed he stabbed the firefighter — six times, allegedly — in self defense.

One man is dead and another was injured following separate shootings near nightclubs in River North late Friday and early Saturday.

A 17-year-old boy is charged with robbing a woman during a wave of armed hold-ups in River North early Thursday.

Two months after a judge told Mekiel Hampton to “start making some better decisions,” he brutally beat two men on State Street — and then helped beat and rob another man hours later two blocks away.

Eight people were robbed and one was shot as a hold-up crew swept through River North while police conducted a show-of-force roll call blocks away overnight.

A West Side man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for strangling a woman in her River North hotel room last year.

Following days of beatings, robberies, and shootings, River North heads into another party weekend as the local alderman calls on police to “get this shit under control.”