West Loop

Prosecutors charged a Lakeview man on Thursday with shooting a gun into an occupied vehicle during a parking dispute in the West Loop earlier this month.

A crowd of about 300 people closed a West Loop intersection overnight as tricked-out cars spun donuts in the street for more than 30 minutes before Chicago police could muster up enough units to address the problem.

Prosecutors say a Wisconsin man robbed a West Loop sandwich shop with a fake shotgun and then set fire to all of the cash he received before leaving.

Two boys, ages 16 and 17, were part of a group that pulled a couple from their car during a hijacking in the West Loop on Sunday night, Chicago police said.

A Cook County judge expressed her “grave concerns” about a misdemeanor gun case in which police allegedly found two weapons in a car — including one hidden in a secret compartment — during a traffic stop in the West Loop.