River North

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.

A Chicago police arrest report and criminal complaint that say a man whipped Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) with a belt during a dispute over a pool game in River North last weekend are “totally inaccurate,” the alderman says.

A man was shot during a robbery in River North last month, prosecutors say, but the Chicago Police Department never told the public about it.

A Chicago alderman was battered at a River North bar on Saturday evening, according to an internal CPD document acquired by CWBChicago. But the alderman says the guy swung at him and missed.

The alderman who represents nearly all of River North is putting the Commissioner of Business Affairs and his “bureaucrats” on blast after a shootout left eight people injured in downtown Chicago early Sunday.