Wicker Park

A registered sex offender who was out of compliance with registration requirements has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was caught viewing child sexual abuse material on a tablet at a Chicago Public Library branch in Bucktown last year, according to court records.

A Cook County judge on Friday sentenced a man to 63 years in prison for killing a bouncer and injuring another person during a shooting outside a Wicker Park hookah bar early on New Year’s Day 2023.

A Wicker Park man accused of killing and torturing a series of kittens, then replacing each one with a look-alike purchased through Craigslist, avoided prison Monday by accepting a resurrected plea deal moments before jury selection was set to begin.

A Wicker Park man charged with killing at least six kittens, then replacing each one with a look-alike bought off Craigslist so his mother would not catch on, will head to a jury trial that is now to begin Monday.

The fatal shooting of a 17-year-old in a Wicker Park alley last fall was not a random act of violence, according to prosecutors. Instead, they say the teenager was lured to a late-night meeting by people he knew, then gunned down and robbed of a device used to steal cars.

A man who trafficked fentanyl and cocaine and illegally possessed 17 firearms inside his Wicker Park home has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison, officials announced Thursday.

A woman caught on camera prying open mailboxes in a Wicker Par apartment building was already on pretrial release for the same type of crime, a judge said, and she had just finished doing prison time for a string of burglaries that included stealing Christmas presents from under a victim’s tree.

Police are investigating an armed robbery reported Tuesday night in Wicker Park, the latest in a series of holdups reported in nearby neighborhoods over the past three days.