West Loop

A Chicago man who was released from jail due to concerns about the arriving COVID pandemic in March 2020, only to get arrested again for robbing a 10-year-old boy outside Union Station, has received a seven-year sentence.

A man who has been sentenced to prison 14 times, including 12 times for burglary, is now charged with burglarizing a downtown Chicago. But, even though he is on parole for four burglaries, the state did not revoke his parole, and a judge set him free to await trial

Armed robbers fired a shot during a 40-minute holdup spree in the West Loop and River West neighborhoods on Thursday evening, according to Chicago police reports. Fortunately, no injuries were reported.

A seven-time felon is one of two men who drove a stolen vehicle to a West Loop restaurant and stole its ATM on Friday morning, prosecutors say.

A Chicago man has been charged with this week’s shooting of a bouncer outside a West Loop strip club, but prosecutors provided virtually no evidence that he committed the crime during a detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Saturday afternoon.

A Florida man may be spending more time in Chicago than he intended after Amtrak police allegedly found $1.2 million worth of methamphetamine in his luggage at Union Station.