Lakeview Fire Investigated As Possible Arson
Police suspect a blaze that put six people out of their homes Tuesday night in the Lakeview neighborhood might have been the latest in a string of arson fires in the area.
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Police suspect a blaze that put six people out of their homes Tuesday night in the Lakeview neighborhood might have been the latest in a string of arson fires in the area.
Several garages have been burned in an arson spree dating back to mid-October. The fires have been set along Damen Avenue, Diversey Parkway, Lincoln Avenue, Ashland Avenue, Wellington Avenue, and other streets on the North Side.
About 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, a man walked up to the TCF Bank branch inside the Jewel-Osco store at 3531 N. Broadway and handed a teller a note demanding cash, according to Chicago Police and the FBI.
Bond was set at $100,000 for each of two men charged with robbing a woman Monday night in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side.
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Police are warning residents on the North Side after three recent home burglaries in the Lakeview and Uptown neighborhoods. In each incident, burglars entered apartments by force or through unlocked doors, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
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Two armed robberies occurred about a half-mile apart Sunday afternoon in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side. The incidents happened in the 3700 block of North Wayne Avenue at 1:05 p.m., and 20 minutes later in the 3600 block of North Bosworth Avenue.
Police are searching for men who have posed as electrical workers and twice robbed elderly women in the Lake View neighborhood on the North Side.
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A boy was found safe after a car was stolen on Chicago's West Side.
The body of a man who went missing along Des Plaines River in Libertyville, Illinois, has been recovered.
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The festival will be delayed until 2 p.m. due to "current and overnight heavy rains," according to the Lollapalooza website.
A boy was found safe after a car was stolen on Chicago's West Side.
The body of a man who went missing along Des Plaines River in Libertyville, Illinois, has been recovered.
A woman was shot during an attempted carjacking in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood.
Savannah Guthrie said she and her family have been "in agony and despair ever since" her mother Nancy's disappearance in February.
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Chicago's Office of Emergency Management, which oversees roughly 200 traffic aides, says two were seriously injured by drivers this summer — leaving many uneasy on the job as Lollapalooza brings heavy traffic downtown.
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