The CTA is shutting down Red Line service from Cermak-Chinatown to 95th/Dan Ryan beginning this Sunday. Some area residents who believe South Side “commuter” criminals are responsible for the surge in Wrigleyville and Boystown street crime expect the shutdown to result in lower crime rates and safer streets. But they may be miscalculating. 19th
Saturday would not be Saturday without ordinarily normal citizens getting liquored up and beaten down. Among the incidents that will have people creating “explanations” for injuries and absences that their co-workers are certain to ask about on Monday: • Patrolling officers wandered into a battery in progress outside of Dimo’s Pizza, 3463 N. Clark Street
Saturday 11 May 20134:52 AMChicago Police Department Case # N/A A resident of 420 West Belmont reported that there was a bomb outside her apartment door. As officers knocked on the resident’s door, she called 911 again to report that she was in the closet, on fire, talking to her dead ex-boyfriend, and she could
Saturday 11 May 20132:12 AMChicago Police Department Case # N/A The driver of a Volkswagen Jetta reported that a male, Hispanic wearing a gray sweater broke out the windows of his car at Clark Street and Addison Street, then ran away. Moments later, the victim and his friends caught up with the offender and several
Image source: Google, Inc Friday3 May 20138:45 PMChicago Police Department Case #HW259236 A local resident was robbed at gunpoint on Cornelia Avenue, one block east of Broadway, last Friday night. The victim’s Samsung Galaxy III phone was stolen in the robbery. While the gunman fled north on Pine Grove Avenue, the victim walked to the
Thursday 9 May 2013 Chicago Police Department Case # See Below We’re wrapping up a sleepy Wednesday night in the neighborhood with only a couple of routine items to report: • Officers responded to a report of 3 to 5 people fighting inside Roscoe’s Tavern shortly before closing time. One offender was arrested for simple
The garage driveway and staircase entrance at 3224 N. Halsted A cop who works the Wrigleyville and Boystown area thinks his fellow officers should give a little extra love to the area around a parking garage at 3224 N. Halsted. The garage, which is used for parking by the public as well as residents of
The wind and drizzle of today’s early hours brought a handful of calls for police help in Boystown and Wrigleyville, but none of the street incidents resulted in reports being filed. Here is a look at what happened while you slept: 1:53 AM a caller reported two men arguing over shoes in the 700 block
Wednesday 1 May 20131:45 AMChicago Police Department Case #HW255062 Street activity was heavy on the heels of Chicago’s first 80 degree day in 7 months. Things got so “interesting,” the police sergeant responsible for supervising Wrigleyville and Boystown overnight activated an impromptu robbery mission team at 1:45am. Mutliple street stops were conducted in the neighborhood
Sunday 21 April 20131:00 AM to 2:00 AMChicago Police Department Case #: See Below REPORT: 19th District police report that a pickpocket/theft team known to work Boystown and Wrigleyville bars struck the Halsted strip last Saturday night and made off with proceeds from at least five victims. Roscoe’s Tavern was hit the hardest as three
Monday 15 April 20132:52 PMChicago Police Department Case #HW234080 REPORT: Witnesses flagged down a passing police car to report that a clean shaven male, black, 23 to 25 years old, 5’9″, 170 pounds, short black hair, wearing an orange shirt and jeans, possibly carrying a gray sweater, punched a woman in the face and took
The police department’s Boystown/Wrigleyville robbery mission detail is not comprised of additional police officers brought in to attack the area’s problem. Rather, regularly scheduled beat cars that would ordinarily be patrolling other parts of the 19th District are being pulled out of their usual patrol operations to sit in Wrigleyville and Boystown hot spots. As
Sunday 21 April 20133:21 AMChicago Police Department Case #HW241338 REPORT: A 25-year-old South Side man was shot on the sidewalk across from Wrigley Field this morning by a gunman with a tattoo on his face and a White Sox hat on his head. The victim, who sought help at a nearby 7-Eleven, said his assailant—a
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