Ravenswood's "Happy Garage" Art Installation Vanadalized
Owner of a Ravenswood art installation is looking for the suspects who vandalized the piece.
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Owner of a Ravenswood art installation is looking for the suspects who vandalized the piece.
Stuart Wright, 32, also must seek treatment for his diagnosed schizophrenia, according to court records and his lawyer.
It started three weeks ago with a statue of the Virgin Mary, in an outdoor area known as the grotto.
Elwood Police are investigating vandalism to a monument honoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender veterans in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.
Naperville Police are searching for someone spray painted an anti-Semitic message on the sidewalk outside Schmaltz Deli on Sunday.
A rock had been thrown through the window, and the word "gentrifier" sprayed on the brick wall beside it, First Ward Ald. Joe Moreno says.
Stuart Wright, 31, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly smashing the window of a downtown synagogue and putting swastika stickers on its doors in early February. Three months earlier, he alarmed members when he visited a Pilsen church, one that was a target of racist vandalism six times in 2016.
The director of a Chicago area Jewish cemetery said he is taking extra precautions following vandalism of Jewish cemeteries in Saint Louis and Philadelphia.
A Pilsen man accused of putting swastika stickers on the doors and breaking a window of a synagogue in the Loop last week has been released from the Cook County Jail after he posted bond Friday.
Caretakers found trash, a broken sign, a missing section marker and more around the site. The vandals have not been caught.
Stuart Wright was charged with a hate crime and criminal damage to property for allegedly placing several swastika stickers on the front doors and smashing a front glass window at the synagogue, 16 S. Clark St., early Saturday.
The suspect was described as a white male wearing dark clothing and a dark face mask.
A 60-year-old man has been charged with vandalizing the front doors of a Pilsen church earlier this week.
It was the sixth time the church has been targeted. But this time, the church was prepared. WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward to catch the culprits who struck the southwest suburban graveyard.
Two Northwestern University students have been charged with spray-painting racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti inside a chapel on the school's Evanston campus late Thursday.
An off-duty Chicago police officer fired his gun at two suspects Thursday morning, after he caught a man vandalizing a car in Norwood Park.
An animal-rights activist who helped release 2,000 minks and vandalize an Illinois fur farm has been sentenced to three years in federal prison — but already has been locked up for nearly that long.
A six-foot tall menorah was damaged on Thursday, in an incident that is being investigated by Evanston police as a possible hate crime.
DuPage County Board Member Jim Zay, who chairs the DuPage Water Commission, said it was thought at first that kids were behind the broken construction vehicle windows, doors, and control panels at Armstrong Park, where the Klein Creek Flood Mitigation Project began a year ago.
Someone managed to get inside the massive century-old building, and make their way to the top of the eight-floor hospital, where they must have negotiated narrow ledges to paint "Air City" in huge letters.
Police are investigating the vandalism of a bust of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the Haitian-born man who's credited as the founder of Chicago, reports WBBM's Steve Miller.
Chicago police are investigating an incident at a Near North Side 7-11 store during which three men videotaped themselves, vandalizing the place on Thursday morning, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser.
