Friday night’s Belmont Avenue festivities weren’t nearly as “festive” as Thursday night’s, but that doesn’t mean the punches didn’t fly and the handcuffs didn’t click. Police worked calls on Belmont between Sheffield Avenue and Halsted Street throughout the night, with the Belmont L stop being the center of attention. The first flareup came around 12:45AM
Thursday into Friday 16-17 May 20139:14 PM to 4:00 AMChicago Police Department Case Police responded to a series 911 calls that reported fighting in the streets around the area of Belmont Avenue, Halsted Street, and Clark Street between 9pm yesterday and the time of this report. The first call for assistance reported a fight
Image source: Google Wednesday 15 May 201311:19 PMChicago Police Department Case #HW276360 A woman in her mid-20’s was beaten in an attempted robbery Wednesday night in the 3500 block of N. Pine Grove Avenue. 911 callers from as far as a block away reported that they could hear a woman screaming for help and a
This cat was about the only thing not robbed last Wednesday. An offender armed with a handgun pulled off three robberies in 30 minutes early last Wednesday, netting three cell phones and a fair amount of cash. The first robbery was at 2:30 AM in front of the parking garage at 3224 N. Halsted. Minutes
The CTA is shutting down Red Line service from Cermak-Chinatown to 95th/Dan Ryan beginning this Sunday. Some area residents who believe South Side “commuter” criminals are responsible for the surge in Wrigleyville and Boystown street crime expect the shutdown to result in lower crime rates and safer streets. But they may be miscalculating. 19th
Saturday would not be Saturday without ordinarily normal citizens getting liquored up and beaten down. Among the incidents that will have people creating “explanations” for injuries and absences that their co-workers are certain to ask about on Monday: • Patrolling officers wandered into a battery in progress outside of Dimo’s Pizza, 3463 N. Clark Street
Saturday 11 May 20134:52 AMChicago Police Department Case # N/A A resident of 420 West Belmont reported that there was a bomb outside her apartment door. As officers knocked on the resident’s door, she called 911 again to report that she was in the closet, on fire, talking to her dead ex-boyfriend, and she could
Saturday 11 May 20132:12 AMChicago Police Department Case # N/A The driver of a Volkswagen Jetta reported that a male, Hispanic wearing a gray sweater broke out the windows of his car at Clark Street and Addison Street, then ran away. Moments later, the victim and his friends caught up with the offender and several
Image source: Google, Inc Friday3 May 20138:45 PMChicago Police Department Case #HW259236 A local resident was robbed at gunpoint on Cornelia Avenue, one block east of Broadway, last Friday night. The victim’s Samsung Galaxy III phone was stolen in the robbery. While the gunman fled north on Pine Grove Avenue, the victim walked to the
Thursday 9 May 2013 Chicago Police Department Case # See Below We’re wrapping up a sleepy Wednesday night in the neighborhood with only a couple of routine items to report: • Officers responded to a report of 3 to 5 people fighting inside Roscoe’s Tavern shortly before closing time. One offender was arrested for simple
© 2023 CWBChicago LLC. All rights reserved.