Chicago police warn about string of business burglaries on North Side
The burglaries happened in the morning and evening hours on Monday and Tuesday in the Norwood Park, Jefferson Park, Wildwood, and Irving Park neighborhoods.
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The burglaries happened in the morning and evening hours on Monday and Tuesday in the Norwood Park, Jefferson Park, Wildwood, and Irving Park neighborhoods.
A 57-year-old man was traveling east on Irving Park Road in a Hyundai sport-utility vehicle and was making a U-turn to head west when he hit the squad car, police said.
The driver of a sport-utility vehicle hit a squad car that had its lights and sirens running on Irving Park Road.
In a burglary that was caught on camera, the front of a small business destroyed by the crew that pulled the ATM from the store on the city's Northwest Side. Tara Molina reports.
Daniel Morales, 40, of Chicago, was charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm.
At least four vehicles were involved in the crash on Irving Park Road near Long.
At least four vehicles were involved in a serious crash on Irving Park Road near Long.
It was unclear late Tuesday whether anybody was in custody following the incident in Schiller Park. Marybel Gonzalez reports.
John Kastanes, 64, was arrested by members of the Chicago Police Department just before 11 a.m. in the 3800 block of North Keeler Avenue.
The man pulled out his handgun and fired at the group, who returned to their car and left the scene, police said.
It was unclear late Friday if the two burglaries are related. But restaurant owner Billy Alvarez said there have been one too many.
Mima’s Taste of Cuba, was one of two restaurants located just blocks away from each other that were each burglarized in a similar fashion – just weeks apart. CBS 2's Marybel Gonzalez reports.
In the wake of the burglaries, the business owners called on the City of Chicago do more to prevent such crimes.
This was the second time Big League Burgers in Irving Park has been burglarized in the past year and a half. CBS 2's Marybel Gonzalez reports.
Police said the robber took cash from the businesses.
The robberies were reported in the Irving Park and Logan Square neighborhoods just a minute apart.
An unknown male fired shots at the victim – striking him in the back of the head, police said.
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Police said afterward, they sped off in an alley heading north.
Investigators said the men jumped out of a grey sedan just before midnight and held up a business along Irving Park Road near Central Avenue. It happened in the Portage Park neighborhood.
The victims were in the 4600 block of West Irving Park Road when four people demanded their money at gunpoint, police said.
Officers found the unidentified male unresponsive on the street, in the 3700 block of North Kedzie just after 10 p.m.
Neighbors were rattled after people in two cars opened fire on each other early Friday morning. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
One person was injured in a shootout that left a trail of bullets through buildings and in the street early Friday morning in the Irving Park neighborhood. CBS 2's Tara Molina reports.
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