Beats Me. And You. Here’s a gem. Our district execs have decided to play yet another numbers game. The Lincoln Park area of the district has (not) more police! The two big police trucks and vans assigned to Uptown, Lakeview, and Lincoln Park for transportation of prisoners—squadrols in CPD vernacular—are no longer officially assigned to

The family of a Chicago woman who was shot dead in St. Louis by a robber who stole her cell phone is hoping to put pressure on manufacturers to incorporate kill switches on mobile devices that would make them worthless to thieves. According to ABC7, A group called Secure Our Smartphones is also pushing for

Four burglars slipped in the back door of the Virgin Mobile store, 2562 N. Clark, overnight and fled with its prized booty. An alarm company and nearby witnesses called authorities at 3AM, but the crew had already made their escape by the time police arrived. Officers say the four offenders appear to be male, black,

A person was stabbed just off of Clark Street and Newport in Wrigleyville overnight, according to a witness and an officer on-scene. One offender is in custody. “A few minutes before 3am while I was watching tv I suddenly heard some yelling…’Help! Help! Somebody help! Police!” a CWB reader emailed overnight. Officers who were in

CBS2 reports tonight that one arrest has been made in connection with the mob theft of goods from a Sports Authority store in suburban Frankfort. The report does not indicate that 21-year-old Patrick Giles has been connected with an identical theft by a group at the Sports Authority at Clark and Barry. CWB broke the

44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney’s latest email newsletter includes this piece of positivity: While I understand the need to utilize police overtime programs to manage city costs, it is a short-term solution to public safety. We need to focus on the bigger picture and not just keep up with attrition.  It is imperative to add

As 19th district police handled a couple of routine calls at Halsted and Cornelia this morning, a blue Chevy rolled up and an occupant told the officers that he had been shot. The dramatic turn of events took place at 4:05 this morning near Halsted and Cornelia, where officers were working on a call of

If you haven’t read up on the rash of wheel thefts, check out our post from earlier this week. From our inbox this afternoon: Just saw this today, on Stockton drive, first one just south of the zoo, the next one 2 blocks north of fullerton.  Images: CWB Reader “T”

From a reader email: RE: laundry rooms. Do I recall correctly that the Belmont rapist a couple weeks back was seen in the building laundry room before he attacked? These break-ins have me wondering if he was there to do a laundry room theft then saw an opportunity to attack the victim? Just a hunch

CWB has obtained a photo of a female bank robber in action inside Boystown’s Jewel-Osco store this afternoon. The woman who held up the TCF bank near Broadway and Addison robbed the same location in May, according to the FBI tonight. The agency says the suspect also robbed a TCF bank inside an Edgewater Jewel-Osco

UPDATE 10:00PM: CWB has obtained this first image of today’s bank robbery in progress. The FBI tonight says today’s offender struck the same bank in April. Our original report from this afternoon follows. ————– A solo bank robber made off with $500 in an afternoon heist at the TCF bank branch inside Boystown’s Jewel-Osco store,

UPDATE: A full story and updated description is now online HERE. TCF bank inside Jewel at Addison and Broadway was robbed 10 minutes ago. Details developing. Cops looking for the perp: female, black,  40, 5’6″, large build, tan hat, tan coat, black sunglasses Same bank was robbed on May 21. Full report as details come in…

Wondering what a laundry room break-in looks like? Here you go. We received this pic and info from D.O. today: Another laundry room break-in last night on the 900 block of Waveland. Two washers and two dryers had their coin mechanisms pried out to get to the coins inside. I’ve attached a photo.