Tag result for article published on Fri May 24 2013 10:12 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: attempted kidnapping, attempted kidnapping Chicago, Chicago, Chicago Police Department
Chicago police received a report that a man attempted to abduct a fourth-grade boy at Bell Elementary School, 3730 North Oakley Avenue in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago. A middle aged black male approached the boy in the playground at Bell Elementary School about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday May 22, 2013. The man said he [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu April 11 2013 7:07 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: armed robbery, baseball bat, bat, Chicago, Chicago Police Department, gunshot, surveillance video
A man faces charges in the shooting of a Chicago store owner who furiously swung a baseball bat to fend off a pair of robbers. The dramatic confrontation was captured on the gift shop’s surveillance video. Cornell Mack, 53, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery and discharge of a firearm in an [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri February 15 2013 5:04 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: battery, battery victim, carjack, carjack Schaumburg, carjacking Chicago, Chicago Police Department, manhunt, Schaumburg Police Department, vehicular carjacking Chicago, vehicular hijacking, vehicular hijacking Schaumburg
UPDATE: Police are NOT actively searching searching for a suspect related to this “vehicular hijacking” case as NO COMPLAINTS are going to be signed by the victim. Apparently no threat exist, and police at 9:00 a.m. are not responding to call reporting a possible sighting of the suspect. No word yet whether other circumstance surrounding [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri February 01 2013 7:43 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago Police Department, homicide investigation, shooting
Chicago police discovered a crash about 4:20 a.m. Friday and found a female driver of a white van shot multiple times. The van crashed into a retaining wall after the shooting. The location is the southbound ramp from Lake Shore Drive (US-41) to the Stevenson Expressway (I-55 … map location not precise). The female driver [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun December 30 2012 10:17 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Police Department, extra alarm fire, OFI, warehouse fire
Video showing heavy fire in a warehouse almost a city block long Saturday afternoon near Western Avenue and 21st Street. Chicago firefighters on Engine 23 responded about 1:08 p.m. to a report of a rubbish fire in the 2500 block of West Cullerton Street and requested a full still alarm after driving around to 21st [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu December 06 2012 2:17 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: aggravated battery Chicago, attempted murder Chicago, cannabis, Cannabis Chicago, Chicago Police Department, conviction, sentencing
View Chicagoland and Worldwide Crime Notebook Map in a larger map An Arlington Heights father of a young boy was sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison after fight with police resulted in a conviction for attempted murder and aggravated battery. Michael Cacini, of the 500 block of East Mayfair Road in upscale [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed October 03 2012 9:41 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago Police Department, indecent exposure, misdemeanor assault
View Larger Map Street view near 1000 West Eddy Street. As Chicago police officers approached former Chicago Bear Tommie Harris about midnight Monday, police report he was urinating and threatening police in front of a bar in the 1000 block of West Eddy Street. The alleged threat? “You want some of these bones?” said Harris [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun September 30 2012 2:02 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: 5-11, 5-11 alarm fire, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Police Department, extra alarm Chicago, extra alarm fire, firefighters, warehouse, warehouse fire
VIDEO: 5-11 extra alarm warehouse fire on West Nelson Street near California Avenue and Belmont Avenue. Chicago firefighters and paramedics responded about 1:30 AM Sunday to a water flow alarm at a warehouse (200X150 square feet), which was heavily charged with smoke in the 2600 block of West Nelson Street. Chicago firefighters arrived on the [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat September 22 2012 12:25 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago Police Department, cocaine, DEA, drug trafficking, heroin, Mexican-based drug trafficking
CHICAGO — Two brothers driving a flatbed tow truck carrying a blue Honda Prelude exited the Kennedy Expressway at Armitage Avenue where they failed to stop at a red light about 7:20 p.m. on March 5 of this year. Chicago police officers stopped the tow truck near the intersection of Armitage and Wolcott avenues and [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu August 30 2012 6:15 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: armed robbery, arrest, Chicago Police Department, felony armed robbery, Park Ridge Police Department, stabbing, stabbing Park Ridge
A suspect in an armed robbery and stabbing of a cab driver in Park Ridge has been arrested and charged with one count of felony armed robbery after he was arrested while he was walking in the 2000 block of Jarvis Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood, just west of Pottawattomie Park. Antonio C. Olivier [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri August 10 2012 7:02 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: car vs. train crash, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Police Department, foot pursuit, police pursuit
An unmarked Chicago police squad was involved in a train crash in the 4600 block of North Kedzie about 3:15 p.m. Apparently a female police officer was crossing the tracks to assist her partner, who was involved in a foot pursuit. The CTA reported Friday afternoon that service on the Brown Line was suspended to [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon July 23 2012 6:21 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago, Chicago Fire Department paramedics, Chicago Police Department, Chicago shootings, homicide, shooting
Shooting scene looking east down Lake from Austin Blvd in Chicago after a homicide on early Saturday just before 1:00 a.m. Chicago police responded about 4:00 a.m. Monday to the shooting a 27-year-old man standing in the 3700 block of West Grenshaw Street in the Homan Square neighborhood was shot in the left arm by [...]
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