Northwest Side

Police are warning residents about a pair of robberies Wednesday at basketball courts in Albany Park and Norwood Park on the Northwest Side. In each case, two men approached a group of teenagers playing basketball, implied that they had a weapon and demanded the victims’ phones and other valuables, according to a community alert from Chicago police. In one case,…

Chicago police are warning residents of a string of catalytic converter thefts reported in June on the Northwest Side. In each incident someone driving a small, dark-colored sedan pulls up next to vehicles parked on residential streets and uses tools to remove the catalytic converter from under the vehicle, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The most targeted…

A woman is in critical condition after she was hit by a city truck while riding a bicycle in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood Tuesday morning. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the latest details.

A man was arrested after barricading himself inside an apartment with a crossbow Thursday on the Northwest Side. Neighbors called police about 11:45 p.m. to report that the 60-year-old man was playing music loudly and pointed a crossbow at one of them in an apartment building in the 5100 block of North East River Road, Chicago police said. He was…

Two ATMs were damaged at bank drive-thrus on the Northwest Side less than an hour apart early this morning, accord to police. Three male suspects entered the drive-thru of a Bank of America, 7126 W. North Ave., in a moving truck at about 1 a.m., Chicago police said. They used a chain to pry open an ATM, but it’s unknown…

Two men were wounded in a shooting Saturday in Logan Square on the Northwest Side. The men, 27 and 25, were standing in an alley at 12:08 a.m. when someone shot at them from a gray SUV in the 1700 block of North Harding Avenue, according to Chicago police. The 25-year-old was hit in the back and leg and taken…

Someone broke into a storage facility in Chicago and pried open locks to at least 50 units, according to police. The manager of a storage facility in the 2300 block of North Harlem told police someone broke into multiple units on the property around 3 a.m. Tuesday. Police said the person broke through a fence and pried open locks on…

Someone broke into a storage facility in Chicago and pried open locks to at least 50 units, according to police. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Someone broke into a storage facility in Chicago and pried open locks to at least 50 units, according to police. Video shows the scene Tuesday morning.

A “roaring 20’s” themed Portillo’s will break ground in the next couple of months, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Plans for a massive development at the location of the last Sears store that closed in Chicago moved a step forward Tuesday, according to multiple reports.

A man threw a woman to the ground and stole her purse Thursday in an attack caught on video on Chicago’s Northwest Side, according to police.

A person is in custody after a man was found stabbed to death Tuesday in Irving Park on the Northwest Side. About 3:45 a.m., officers responded to the 3700 block of North Sacramento Avenue, and found Jasinto Ortiz, 38, lying on the ground, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was pronounced dead at the scene….

A Chicago man charged with fatally stabbing his female roommate in 2013 on the Northwest Side has been extradited from Poland to face a count of first-degree murder in Cook County. Mateusz Zabrzenski, 31, is charged in the fatal stabbing and possible strangulation of Sarah Krasilova, who was found dead in her apartment June 24, 2013 in the 6500 block…

An employee at Steinmetz College Prep on Chicago’s Northwest Side has been removed from the school following an allegation of inappropriate conduct with a student, according to a letter from the school’s principal.

Several parents of children who attend St. Eugene Catholic School on Chicago’s Far Northwest Side have started an online fundraiser with the hope of raising enough funds to keep the school’s doors open.

A 66-year-old man accused of fatally shooting five of his neighbors on Chicago’s Northwest Side over the weekend left a note on his door with a haunting message written in Polish, prosecutors said in court Monday.

A 66-year-old man has been charged with murder after authorities say he fatally shot five of his neighbors Saturday evening at an apartment complex on Chicago’s Northwest Side, according to police. Krysztof Marek, of the 6700 block of West Irving Park Road, was charged with five felony counts of first degree murder, Chicago police said in a statement Monday morning.

Police arrested a neighbor for allegedly killing four people and injuring a fifth in a shooting at an apartment complex on Chicago’s Far Northwest Side.