Groups of armed men tried to force their way into ATMs on opposite sides of the city early Friday. Police are now trying to determine if the crimes are connected.
Prosecutors say a twice-convicted gun offender was on bond for a pending Class X felony gun case when he threatened a Swedish Hospital security guard with a pistol and fired shots in the hospital parking lot, narrowly missing a bystander.
A man fought off two robbers who then brandished a gun in Boystown on Sunday night, police said. Separately, detectives are investigating a robbery in Ravenswood in which three men mugged a woman and stole her car Saturday evening.
Ridership on the CTA’s train system remains significantly lower than during the pre-COVID era, but city statistics show that robberies and violent attacks on the L system from downtown to the North Side are at their highest point in at least ten years.
Armed men carjacked three drivers and tried to carjack a fourth during a 30-minute crime spree Sunday night across Lakeview, Roscoe Village, and Ravenswood, police said. No arrests have been made.
A carjacker took a woman’s SUV at gunpoint in Ravenswood on Tuesday morning, police said. The details of the hijacking are similar to at least nine other cases that have been reported in the area in recent days.
A four-time convicted burglar is facing his fifth residential burglary case after a Ravenswood woman came home to discover him inside her bedroom closet, according to prosecutors.
A Ravenswood man disguised himself with a “Rastafarian wig” as he tried to beat his ex-wife to death on a Lakeview street last month, prosecutors said Wednesday.
A man sexually assaulted a woman after luring her into a Ravenswood construction site Monday evening, Area Three detectives said in a community alert Tuesday afternoon.