West Town Archives - Page 2 of 11

“Organized burglars” raid stores in Wicker Park and West Town overnight (Please don’t call them looters)

November 26, 2021 CWBChicago

An organized group burglarized several businesses in and near Wicker Park early Friday Park, prompting Chicago police to flood the downtown retail corridors with extra resources to prevent similar raids along the Mag Mile and nearby areas.

Cops found credit cards belonging to 32 people in fake Uber driver’s car, authorities say

November 22, 2021 CWBChicago

Chicago police detectives allegedly found 32 credit cards belonging to 32 different people in the car of a man who’s accused of operating a fake rideshare vehicle in the city’s nightlife districts.

Four more carjackings were reported in West Town on Monday; 1 charged, 3 others in custody

November 9, 2021 CWBChicago

At least four carjackings were reported Monday in the West Town community area, which includes neighborhoods like Wicker Park and Ukrainian Village.

Charges filed, doggie safe after teen carjacks SUV with Golden Lab inside at West Town grocery store

November 9, 2021 CWBChicago

A 17-year-old is in custody after he allegedly hijacked an SUV with a dog inside yesterday evening in West Town. Police reunited the uninjured pooch with its human, too.

At least 4 robbery and carjacking patterns are active in Wicker Park, Bucktown, and West Town, police say

November 5, 2021 CWBChicago

Chicago police detectives have identified at least four separate robbery patterns that are active in West Town, Wicker Park, Bucktown, and nearby neighborhoods.

8 more victims robbed in 5 hold-ups across West Town, Bucktown, and Wicker Park

November 4, 2021 CWBChicago

At least eight more people were targeted in muggings and carjackings from Wednesday afternoon into the early hours of Thursday across the robbery-plagued West Town community area.

30 minutes, 7 robberies, 1 gunman. It was a busy morning in West Town and Humboldt Park

November 2, 2021 CWBChicago

An armed man robbed at least seven people in about 30 minutes Tuesday morning while driving a hijacked vehicle around West Town and Humboldt Park, police said.

Shootings leave man dead in West Town, another wounded in West Loop overnight

October 31, 2021 CWBChicago

Police are investigating separate shootings that left a man dead in West Town and another man injured in the West Loop overnight.

Volkswagen linked to a series of robberies in Wicker Park and Bucktown slams into a cop car on the North Side

October 30, 2021 CWBChicago

A stolen Volkswagen Jetta that has been used in a series of robberies across Bucktown, Wicker Park, and other parts of West Town was found abandoned in Ravenswood.

At least 9 people were robbed in two waves of armed hold-ups from Bucktown to Little Italy last night

October 28, 2021 CWBChicago

At least nine robberies were reported in two waves Wednesday evening and early Thursday across Wicker Park, Bucktown, West Town, and the Near West Side, according to CPD reports.

Suburban man slugged a 15-year-old and carjacked the kid’s mom outside Goose Island restaurant, prosecutors say

October 27, 2021 CWBChicago

Prosecutors have charged a suburban man with punching a 15-year-old boy during a carjacking while an accomplice pulled the teen’s mother room the family car outside a restaurant near Goose Island on Monday evening.

Cops issue another warning for West Town, Chicago’s second-worst area for carjacking

October 26, 2021 CWBChicago

West Town, Chicago’s second-worst community area for carjackings this year, is the focus of another warning from Chicago police.

Teenager and mother are attacked in West Town carjacking; hijackers pistol-whip another victim nearby