Man Attacked, Robbed At Gunpoint Near Wicker Park
A man was attacked and robbed at gunpoint in Pulaski Park, near the Wicker Park, Bucktown area.
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A man was attacked and robbed at gunpoint in Pulaski Park, near the Wicker Park, Bucktown area.
In a series of bold armed robberies in the Wicker Park and West Town areas, the criminals are asking not only for phones and credit cards, but also PINs.
Police said a 55-year-old man was in a car in an alley along North Avenue, near Damen Avenue, around 3:45 p.m., when someone tried to rob him.
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a mass shooting in Wicker Park that left one dead and four injured on Oct. 10.
A person was killed and four others wounded after a shooting in Wicker Park early Sunday, police said.
Police were investigating Saturday afternoon after two men were shot on Division Street, between Wicker Park and Ukrainian Village.
Two men were shot in West Town Saturday morning, police said.
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A man was carjacked at gunpoint in Wicker Park early Friday morning.
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A total of 967 carjackings have been reported this year through early August.
A man was carjacked in Wicker Park early Monday morning.
A mother and her 2-year-old daughter were carjacked in Wicker Park.
A man was shot and killed in an apartment on the eastern edge of the Wicker Park neighborhood early Sunday.
"It's been a bit frustrating."
A woman was the victim of a carjacking in Wicker Park Sunday night.
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The rise in carjackings in Chicago has certainly left many of us uneasy.
It remains a growing epidemic within the coronavirus pandemic – carjackings were up 132 percent in 2020, and they show no signs of slowing.
Police said the 49-year-old woman was walking from her car in a parking lot on the 2200 block of West Division Street shortly after 11 p.m., when three men walked up, and one of them pulled out a gun and demanded the keys to her vehicle.
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Quitone Nash, of Markham, was out on bond on previous misdemeanor charges when he and two other men carjacked a man sleeping in his vehicle in the parking lot of a Jewel grocery store in Wicker Park.
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