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Just paroled in robbery that left man dead, he tried to carjack teens in front of Chicago cops, prosecutors say

October 14, 2026 10:20 AM CWBChicago
A Chicago man paroled in June after serving time for a robbery that left a man dead is accused of trying to carjack two 16-year-old boys at gunpoint in September — with police watching as it happened.

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Package delivery man tried to lure 13-year-old girl on NW Side, police say

July 16, 2026 12:34 PM CWBChicago
Chicago police are warning Northwest Side residents about an attempted child luring involving a package delivery man who allegedly propositioned a 13-year-old girl on her front porch.

Norwood Park

CPS aide pushed, dragged nonverbal autistic boy ‘like a starfish’ in school hallway, prosecutors say

April 19, 2026 2:00 PM Tim Hecke
A substitute classroom aide at a Northwest Side elementary school is facing felony charges after prosecutors said a CPS security officer watched live on surveillance cameras as she dragged and pushed an 8-year-old nonverbal autistic boy during a three-minute struggle outside a school bathroom.

Norwood Park

11-time felon AWOL from mail theft case was found stealing mail again, officials say

April 13, 2026 10:05 AM CWBChicago
An 11-time convicted felon who had been dodging a mail theft-related court case is back behind bars after a Chicago cop allegedly saw him walking out of a Northwest Side apartment building with a bundle of stolen mail.

Norwood Park

Helmet camera captured motorcyclist killing pedestrian at 73 mph; he gets 4 years in prison

January 25, 2026 1:38 PM Tim Hecke
A motorcyclist whose helmet camera captured him killing a pedestrian while speeding at 73 mph through a Northwest Side intersection has been sentenced to four years in prison.

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Armed burglary crew expands crime spree to Northwest Side, police say

November 17, 2025 5:57 AM CWBChicago
A burglary crew that has smashed its way into businesses across Chicago is expanding its territory, police say, striking three more times early Saturday on the city’s Northwest Side after a string of break-ins from the South Loop to West Ridge earlier this month.

Norwood Park

Subway restaurant robber busted with water pistol and a note saying “I have a gun. This is a robbery.”

June 19, 2025 12:12 PM CWBChicago
A man charged with robbing 2 Subway restaurants on the Northwest Side was allegedly found carrying a water pistol and a note that said “I have a gun. This is a robbery.”

Norwood Park

Motorcyclist’s helmet camera shows he was speeding 73 mph when he struck and killed a pedestrian on the NW Side: prosecutors

March 20, 2025 4:54 PM Tim Hecke
A motorcyclist was wearing a helmet camera as he sped around traffic and struck a pedestrian at 73 mph on the Northwest Side, prosecutors said. The crash killed 26-year-old Camryn Green and left the motorcyclist, Jonathan Jaimes, 20, badly injured.

Norwood Park

2 migrants murdered man they met on Grindr, then used his phone for a $4,100 Amazon shopping spree: prosecutors

February 1, 2025 6:06 PM Tim Hecke
After two men left 63-year-old George Levin bound, gagged, and either dead or dying in his Norwood Park bedroom last weekend, they went on an Amazon shopping spree, buying merchandise worth more than $4,000 as they fled the scene, prosecutors said during a detention hearing Saturday.

Norwood Park

2 migrants charged with horrific murder of 63-year-old man who was bound with wire and duct tape

January 31, 2025 5:18 PM Tim Hecke
Two men, both migrants who crossed into the USA along the Texas border in 2023, are charged with the horrific murder of a 63-year-old man in his Norwood Park bedroom, officials said.

Norwood Park

Migrant being questioned in heinous murder was arrested two weeks ago for trying to lure 13-year-old into a car: source

January 30, 2025 7:31 PM Tim Hecke
One of the two men Chicago police are questioning in connection with the horrific murder on Sunday of 63-year-old George Levin was arrested two weeks ago after a 13-year-old girl accused him of trying to lure her into a car on the Northwest Side.

Norwood Park

2 undocumented migrants sought for murdering 63-year-old Chicago man who was found tied up with duct tape and cord: alderman

January 29, 2025 4:51 PM Tim Hecke
Chicago police are preparing to arrest two undocumented migrants to face charges of home invasion and murder in connection with the brutal slaying of a man in his Norwood Park home, an alderman said this afternoon.

Norwood Park

Man found tied up, dead in Norwood Park home

January 27, 2025 6:47 AM CWBChicago
Police have launched a murder investigation after a shocking discovery was made in one of the city’s safest neighborhoods: a deceased 63-year-old man tied up in a Norwood Park basement.

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15th person accused of Chicago murder or attempted murder while on felony release this year

November 9, 2026 9:43 AM

Man gets 12 years for robbing Facebook Marketplace users in Chicago

November 9, 2026 7:09 AM

Rapper whose release party preceded Chicago’s worst mass shooting of all time gets 2-year prison sentence — for gun possession

November 8, 2026 7:08 PM

Woman waited hours for Chicago police response after being raped at gunpoint during home invasion

November 8, 2026 10:49 AM

Burglar caught after 14 cars are broken into on a single Irving Park block

November 8, 2026 8:56 AM

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