Mail thieves strike in Norridge and Harwood Heights, leaving at least 40 victims
New video released Tuesday shows a thief swiping letters from a blue mailbox in the northwest suburbs.
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New video released Tuesday shows a thief swiping letters from a blue mailbox in the northwest suburbs.
Officers said Conrad claimed she had a seizure but police smelled alcohol on her breath.
Two women said they mailed checks from the post office at 41st and Halsted and became victims of fraud.
"I haven't caught back up yet, so now I'm losing money daily. Because we're on Social Security and it's a pain in the butt."
Some customers could pay as much as $6.45 in additional costs for mailing packages during the holiday season.
The victim said he's "stressed about a whole lot of things and in pain."
Missing mail is nothing new. It is a problem we have been reporting on for years.
In screen grabs from surveillance video, you can see the plan in action.
Since 2021, the agencies have captured 42 guns, and $2.4 million worth of illegal drugs, including cocaine, fentanyl, and meth.
We're hearing multiple reports of stolen mail and mailbox break-ins across the West Loop.
The suspect fled on foot and should be considered armed and dangerous.
Officials believe the fire was set intentionally.
The six defendants were charged as part of an investigation by the Illinois Attorney General's Task force on Unemployment Benefits Insurance Fraud.
In a delivery disaster in Palos Hills, video shows a box truck spilling cartons of USPS mail onto the street.
"They don't know if it's at an airport, at the exchange facility. They don't know if it ever made it to Illinois from California."
A $25,000 reward is offered for the gunman who robbed a postal worker in Hinsdale Monday.
Organizers are holding a kick-off event to get the word out. Then on Saturday, people can leave non-perishable items by their mailboxes.
The stamp was dedicated at Charles R. Darwin Elementary in the Logan Square community, which Silverstein attended as a boy.
Postal inspectors said four men in ski masks and dark clothing ambushed the postal worker. Some appear to point guns at him after pulling up in a Jaguar F-PACE SUV.
The United States Postal Service is now hiring at its facilities across the Greater Chicago area as a part of their 10-year Delivering for America plan.
A thief was caught stealing from people's mailboxes on surveillance video inside a Bucktown building.
The parents of a boy who died far too soon found a way to honor him by raising money to ease families' financial burdens. But this story is about how money meant to help in that effort went missing - before it mysteriously appeared again years later.
