Avondale

The Belmont Snack Shop will close permanently after a fire destroyed the Avondale restaurant earlier this month, owner Nelson Rodriguez announced in an emotional Facebook post Thursday afternoon. “After a lot of thought and consideration and looking at every angle possible it is apparent to all of us at the Snack Shop that rebuilding and attempting to bring Belmont Snack…

Four people are displaced after a fire broke out at a building housing a restaurant in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Firefighters arrived at 7:24 p.m. to the building, which houses the Belmont Snack Bar, at 3407 W. Belmont Avenue. Responders found the first floor of the building on fire as well as the second floor,…

Police are warning residents about a series of robberies since last week by suspects posing as police officers in Albany Park, Belmont Central and Avondale on the Northwest Side. In each case, a man pulled up in a black vehicle, pointed a flashlight at the victim and demanded the person’s ID or wallet, according to a community alert from...

A Chicago brewery took to Facebook this week calling out patrons, restaurants and bars that allowed massive crowds of people and long lines on the first weekend of indoor dining. Metropolitan Brewery in Avondale took to Facebook and posted a strongly worded message to those not following public health guidance. “This b****** will squander every sacrifice made over the past…

Police are investigating after someone spray-painted racial slurs on two Avondale garages Friday on the Northwest Side. Officers responded to two reports of criminal damage in progress at 1:47 a.m. in the 3100 block of North Central Park Avenue, according to Chicago police. Responding officers found racial slurs spray-painted on the garage doors of two homes in the block, along…

A Chicago police officer was stabbed by someone who allegedly started a fire Wednesday in Avondale on the Northwest Side. Police and fire crews were called about 4:45 p.m. for reports of the fire in the 3100 block of North Spaulding Avenue, according to Chicago police. When they arrived, a female started arguing with officers and firefighters. The female, who…

A man was wounded in a shooting Sunday in Avondale on the Northwest Side.

Authorities say a car drove into a building on Chicago’s Northwest Side early Tuesday.

Starting on Dec. 5, DMen Tap in the Avondale neighborhood on the city’s Northwest Side will transform itself into a Krampus-themed pop-up bar.

 Griswold’s, a pop-up bar themed after National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation,” officially opens its doors on Sunday.

A 4-year-old girl was sexually abused last month at an elementary school in Avondale on the Northwest Side, according to Chicago police.

A man faces two felony drug charges after officers found LSD and other Schedule 1 and 2 narcotics in his Avondale neighborhood home on Thursday, police said.

Police are warning businesses on the Northwest Side of two recent robberies in the Logan Square and Avondale neighborhoods.

A teen girl’s quick-thinking brother is being credited with saving her life after he grabbed onto his sister’s ankles and pulled her from a man who was trying to kidnap her on Chicago’s North Side Monday.

A brother is being credited with saving his sister’s life during an attempted kidnapping on Chicago’s North Side this week. Christian Farr reports.

Three men who were found dead in a vacant building on the city’s Northwest Side have been identified by the medical examiner’s office as Martin Kaziemierz, Sergei Subchuk and Nikolai Chtefan.

Emergency officials responded to the 3300 block of North Harding about 11:15 a.m. and found the three—males of unknown age—dead in a vacant building. NBC5’s Natalie Martinez reports.