Michigan Avenue

A large group looted a department store Friday on the Magnificent Mile. The group, estimated to be between 50 and 80 people, broke out the front display windows of the store at 11:51 p.m. in the 900 block of North Michigan Avenue, according to Chicago police. Bloomingdale’s is located in that block at 900 N. Michigan. An unknown number of…

Chicago police arrested a person Thursday night after allegedly vandalizing one of the lion statues near the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. The iconic lion statue at the north end of the S. Michigan Avenue entrance had the words “inside mania” painted on its base. A female offender was arrested at 10:41 p.m. after being seen tagging the…

Many stores and businesses on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue will remain boarded up, even as Mayor Lori Lightfoot allows the city’s Central Business District to reopen. NBC 5’s Sandra Torres reports.

Glass littered the ground Saturday night on Michigan Avenue after numerous store windows were smashed and merchandise was stolen from shelves. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter shows the scene following protests earlier in the day.

Chicago’s usually bustling Michigan Avenue boasted few cars and pedestrians as many stayed home and self-quarantined to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Charges have been filed against five people who allegedly stole clothes from an H&M store on the Magnificent Mile Thursday and ran through a CTA Red Line tunnel toward Division Street, where officers arrested them. Two juvenile boys, 15 and 16, and three 18-year-old men each face a felony count of retail theft over $300 and a misdemeanor count of…

Chicago police are investigating a string of high-profile crimes across the city, with thieves hitting high-end retailers and stealing expensive vehicles in several neighborhoods in a matter of hours. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez has the story.

A gunman robbed a man of his Canada Goose jacket along Michigan Avenue late Wednesday evening, according to police. The 42-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk around 10 p.m. in the 200 block of South Michigan Avenue when an armed man came up from behind and demanded his coat, authorities said. “All of a sudden someone jumped from a…

A gunman robbed a man of his Canada Goose jacket along Michigan Avenue late Wednesday evening, according to police.

At least two masked men robbed a Mag Mile Louis Vuitton store Thursday and were tracked by GPS to the Bronzeville neighborhood, where they found a parked car with several handbags inside. The suspects held up the store about 12:15 p.m. in the 900 block of North Michigan Avenue and implied they were armed, grabbing about eight handbags before running…

The man was walking near Madison and Michigan when he says a suspect approached him from behind with a gun.

Chicago police were searching for five to six thieves who stole an unspecified number of items from the Louis Vuitton store on Michigan Avenue Monday evening, officials said. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio reports.

With the holiday shopping season underway, Chicago police are warning shoppers about a professional theft ring, which it says has targeted stores along Michigan Avenue and in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

The Starbucks Reserve Roastery is scheduled to open Nov. 15 at Michigan Avenue and Erie Street, in the former Crate and Barrel building.

Charges have been filed against a man and a teenage girl after a shot was fired into a Corner Bakery during a fight Monday on Michigan Avenue in the Loop. Angel Martinez, 18, is charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm toward an occupied vehicle, according to Chicago police. Martinez, who lives in Cicero, and the...

Two people are in custody after a gunshot entered a Corner Bakery during the evening rush on Michigan Avenue in the Loop.

Two people are in custody after a gunshot entered a Corner Bakery during the evening rush on Michigan Avenue in the Loop.