River North

Newly acquired city of Chicago surveillance camera footage shows a “crash and grab” burglary crew casing two River North stores, driving a car through the storefronts, and hauling away a pickup truck full of merchandise on October 23.

Plans by Chicago city officials to put a migrant shelter in the Marina City complex are not dead after all, Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) said in an email to his constituents Wednesday afternoon.

Chicago leaders are considering a plan to house more than 1,000 migrants at a posh River North hotel, just feet from Marina City and the House of Blues, Ald. Brendan Reilly says.

Smash-and-grab burglars drove a car through a River North storefront overnight and escaped with merchandise worth thousands of dollars, according to a Chicago police report. No arrests have been made.

A group of armed robbers targeted customers outside Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, with a similar incident occurring earlier this month. The recent robbery saw two customers lose around $560 and an iPhone before the culprits fled in a white SUV. The suspects were later spotted in downtown Chicago, near the new Bally’s Casino, eyebrows.

Chicago police announced this morning that a 15-year-old boy has been charged with carjacking a woman in River North in August.

A four-time convicted felon has picked up a fifth felony conviction by pleading guilty to having a gun in the cab of a U-Haul truck as he drove around downtown Chicago in the aftermath of a massive looting spree in August 2020.

A group of armed men robbed four people as the victims were exiting a car in River North early Sunday, Chicago police said. The crime appears to be similar to a string of robberies that Area Three detectives recently warned downtown residents about.