Rogers Park Archives

Man gets 5 year sentence for 19-minute robbery spree in Rogers Park

October 1, 2023 11:26 AM CWBChicago

A Chicago man has been handed a five-year sentence for robbing three people during a 19-minute crime spree in Rogers Park last year.

More carjackings and robberies keep Chicago cops running from the West Loop to West Ridge

September 26, 2023 8:27 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating nearly a dozen armed robberies and carjackings reported between Monday evening and early Tuesday.

Boys, ages 14 and 16, charged with carjacking driver in Rogers Park, suspected in other crimes

September 25, 2023 7:31 AM CWBChicago

Two boys, ages 14 and 16, carjacked a 66-year-old man in Rogers Park on Sunday morning, Chicago police said.

CTA pickpocket gets probation, one of the lightest sentences he’s received since 1985

September 23, 2023 7:28 PM CWBChicago

A Chicago man with a decades-long criminal history who pleaded guilty Friday to pickpocketing three women on the CTA was sentenced to a year of probation, among the lightest sentences he’s received since the Reagan administration.

Men were shot in River North and Rogers Park last night

September 11, 2023 6:54 AM CWBChicago

Chicago police are investigating two shootings since Sunday evening, one in Rogers Park and the other in River North, just a block from the newly opened Bally’s casino.

Man charged with crosstown robbery spree was convicted of South Loop shoplifting raid in May

August 23, 2023 9:03 AM CWBChicago

A 19-year-old Chicago man charged with committing a string of robberies with a 17-year-old boy on Monday evening was recently convicted of felony retail theft for a Christmas Eve raid on a South Loop cosmetics store.

17-year-old robbed 4 North Side stores at gunpoint, carjacked driver, Chicago police say

August 23, 2023 8:32 AM CWBChicago

A 17-year-old boy arrested after robbing a Walgreens in Andersonville has been linked to five additional robberies, including a carjacking, this week.

Cross-town armed robbery spree ends with 2 arrests in Andersonville

August 22, 2023 4:32 AM CWBChicago

Two armed robbers who went on a cross-town crime spree yesterday afternoon are in Chicago police custody after a passerby called 911 upon seeing two men wearing ski masks walk into a Walgreens in Andersonville.

Gunman robs 3 stores in 45 minutes, speeds away from cops

August 20, 2023 1:28 PM CWBChicago

Chicago police issued a community alert on Sunday afternoon following three armed robberies of convenience stores on the North Side.

Chicago cops watch armed robbery in progress, but supervisor orders them NOT to chase the criminals; at least 11 people robbed in overnight spree

August 16, 2023 12:02 PM CWBChicago

As yet another armed robbery spree unfolded overnight, Chicago police officers saw armed men robbing victims on the North Side, but their supervisor ordered them not to pursue the offenders, who drove away and committed even more crimes.