Chicago’s 2013 Gay Pride Parade is a memory now. Only the glitter and the police reports remain to remind us of what it was. The parade and its aftermath brought hours of mayhem to Boystown streets and police reinforcements were brought in from at least six North Side districts as the Town Hall commander tried to
Image: donnieschinalatina21 A couple of weeks ago, we reported exclusively that two young men who were beaten and stabbed with broken bottles by a mob near the Belmont Red Line tracks were attacked as they waited more than 10 minutes for police to respond to their 911 call for help with two detained cell phone robbers.
Image: Ron Cogswell Several witnesses reported that two men knocked a woman down and stole her purse at Sheffield and Waveland, next to Wrigley Field last night. The first caller at 7:05PM said the attackers fled northbound on Sheffield in a blue, four-door Volkswagen with Minnesota license plates. Officers arrived very quickly, but they could
Police handled call after call after call of large groups of people harassing pedestrians, fighting, whooping, hollering, and blocking access to businesses and sidewalks overnight. From before midnight until commuters awoke to go to work this morning, the calls to 911 never seemed to end. Sunday, 7 July 2013 11:26PM: A local business reported 25
Image: Chicago Tribune The Chicago Tribune today tells the story of what Gary Dailey (above) encountered inside a Gold Coast pedestrian tunnel on the Fourth of July: […] a large, noisy group of individuals [was] crowded into the center of a tunnel that led under Lake Shore Drive near Division Street. “They were screaming and
Sunday 7 July 2013 5:35AM Chicago Police Department Case #HW351540 911 received a call at 5:35 this morning of a phone being stolen at the Belmont L station, 945 W. Belmont. Unfortunately, no officers were available to take the call, giving the perpetrators a 30-minute head start on their escape before police started working the
Sunday7 July 20132:58AMChicago Police Department Case #: No report taken. A witness flagged down officers on patrol outside of Big City Tap, 1010 W. Belmont, to report seeing a 20-year-old man getting beaten with a baseball bat. 911 handled a call about a similar incident around the same time. No victim was found. Officers may
Saturday, 6 July 2013 8:16PM: The Closet bar, 3325 N. Broadway, reported that 4 offenders—2 black men with 2 women, stole the money from inside a gaming machine. The offenders were last seen driving southbound on Broadway toward Belmont in a red Dodge Caravan with a temporary license plate. Case #HW351086. 9:25PM: One arrest for
Image: thedoctor1963 It looks like Michigan Avenue continues to be generously coated with police officers tonight. There were 7 more groups of cops just like this one protecting a mere block and half of Boul Mich between Water Tower and Lake Shore Drive this evening. Correction. Not all of the groups of cops were exactly
Friday 5 July 2013 6:59PM Chicago Police Department Case #HW349793 UPDATE 24 JULY 2013: CWB has been provided access to the Chicago Police Department report of this case. The offenders in this case threw at least one punch at the victim, but failed to make contact. The offender who is described in our report as
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