FBI: South Loop Bank Robbery Is 'Play-Along Bandit's' Seventh
The robbery happened about 6 p.m. at a bank in the 1200 block of South Wabash, police said.
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The robbery happened about 6 p.m. at a bank in the 1200 block of South Wabash, police said.
The fire started around 3 a.m. in a one-story commercial building at the corner of State Street and Cermak Road. The building houses a cell phone store and three fast food restaurants – one ironically named Dragon Fire.
wo people were killed and another was critically hurt in a fiery single-vehicle crash early Sunday in the South Loop.
The Fire Department said the fire was "through the roof" at the Chicago Firehouse Restaurant, at 1401 S. Michigan Av. The building is literally a former Chicago firehouse, which was converted into a restaurant in 1999.
A late 19th century home on Prairie Avenue has begun its two-day move to a new lot a block north, to make way for the new DePaul University basketball arena just north of McCormick Place.
House movers made quick work of hauling a historic coach house down the street Wednesday morning in a neighborhood where Chicago's movers and shakers lived 100 years ago.
A 36-year-old man who was charged with urinating into a woman's car over the weekend was speaking out Wednesday
A 36-year-old man was facing misdemeanor charges, after urinating into a woman's car in the South Loop, and coming up with an unusual explanation.
A decorative stone piece fell from the Second Presbyterian Church on Sept. 4, hitting Sarah Bean, a 34-year-old mother of two,
It happened at around 4:30 a.m. Monday near Wabash and Harrison. Within seconds, owners say the criminal swiped $2,000. The owners think the same guy also broke in two weeks ago and stole $3,000.
Several stores in the South Loop are being evacuated after a gas leak was reported Monday morning.
A Chicago firefighter briefly found himself in trouble Wednesday morning at a fire in a South Loop mid-rise apartment building.
In another mark of the evolution of the South Loop and West Side, the neighborhoods currently have a higher median rent than Lincoln Park and are approaching the high-end rental prices of the Gold Coast and Streeterville.
A man was critically wounded when he was stabbed in the chest during a domestic dispute in the South Loop Sunday evening.
The five-vehicle crash happened at 9:30 p.m. at Congress Parkway and Wells Street.
Kenard Jarrett, 20, was charged with three felony counts of burglary after he attempted to steal items from the business Wednesday about 12:20 a.m., according to a statement from Chicago Police.
The 20-year-old - posing as a nightshift crew worker - was inside the store and attempting to steal money from the cash registers, when an employee recognized him from a separate robbery at a different Mariano's store and began chasing after him. The suspect then ran out of the store and jumped into a Jaguar, only to crash it into a building across the store's parking lot at 1601 S. Federal St.
Nobody was hurt when the officer discharged the gun, although a water pipe was hit, resulting in a leak that caused damage to an office.
In each case, two offenders used a knife to take cash from the register and cashier's wallet, according to an alert issued by Area Central detectives.
Daniel Tatman, 21, caused a small explosion using an "incendiary device" and marijuana in the bathroom of his apartment in the 1200 block of South Michigan Avenue about 11 p.m., police said.
The two, whose ages were not immediately known, were transported from the blaze to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in serious condition.
Police said the first attack occurred about 10:30 p.m., when a group of three girls approached a 24-year-old woman on foot, and sprayed her as she stood outside in the 1100 block of South State Street.
The anonymous woman behind the latest alleged sexting scandal involving New York mayoral candidate and former congressman Anthony Weiner has a Chicago connection.
Andre Bunton, 37, was sitting in a car in the 200 block of East 16th Place about 11:25 p.m. when shots were fired and at least one bullet struck him in the chest.
Police were seeking a man who has been ripping off cell phones and purses in and around a South Loop subway stop.
