West Ridge

Authorities say that a quick-thinking 12-year-old girl got the better of a man who tried to lure her into his car as she walked to school, giving Chicago police all the information they needed to locate the suspect.

Prosecutors say a woman who had four active arrest warrants helped a juvenile attack and rob a woman at a North Side Walgreens store.

Prosecutors have charged a West Ridge man with robbing an Uber driver, two convenience stores, and his next-door neighbor in separate incidents since December.

Chicago police are trying to identify a man who allegedly yelled profanities and threats at a teacher and students at a predominantly Jewish school on the North Side last month.

A Niles man who’s on parole was ordered on $250,000 bail Tuesday in connection with a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the West Ridge neighborhood over the weekend.

Police are questioning a suspect after someone spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti and tackled a man Sunday afternoon on the North Side.

Police arrested three juveniles after witnesses reported seeing them waving handguns while circling West Rogers Park in a hijacked SUV on Friday evening.

Police are warning North Siders about the return of so-called “ruse burglars” who distract senior citizens while accomplices steal valuables from the victims’ homes.