Eighty-one sexual assaults were reported to Chicago police during the two weeks from Sept. 8 to Sept. 21, the highest number of assaults in a two-week period this year. Police do not believe there is a particular reason for the spike in reported rapes, police spokesman David Bayless said.
In the previous two-week period, there were 41 reported assaults.
The second-highest two-week period was July 14-27, when police received 77 reports of rape in Chicago. Rape crisis counselors say they see the most rapes during the summer months.
Overall, sexual assaults and attempted sexual assaults from January through August were down 15 percent this year from the same period in 2004, Bayless said.
The reported assaults from Sept. 8 to Sept. 21 include several that ended in arrests, police said.
In one case, a 32-year-old man was arrested and charged with criminal sexual assault after allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman he offered to walk home from a club Sept. 17, police spokeswoman Robin Mohr said. The man is accused of forcing the woman to the ground in a park on the 1400 block of W. Randolph St.
Police responding to a 911 call arrested Aloysius Phillips, Mohr said. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Oct. 19, according to the state’s attorney’s office.
(The assaults below happened on the block given. Most of these
cases are still under investigation.)
ARMOUR SQUARE
– 200 block of W. 24th St., 5:15 a.m. Sept. 8
AUBURN GRESHAM
– 2100 block of W. 82nd Pl.,
12 p.m. Sept. 15
– 1600 block of W. 80th St., 6:20 p.m. Sept. 14
– 8300 block of S. Aberdeen St., 10:40 p.m. Sept. 15
– 7500 block of S. Winchester Ave., 12 p.m. Sept. 15
– 8700 block of S. Morgan St., 6:50 p.m. Sept. 14
AUSTIN
– 1600 block of N. Oak Park Ave., 10 p.m. Sept 11
– 5000 block of W. St. Paul Ave., 11:45 p.m. Sept. 13
– 1200 block of N. Lockwood Ave., 4 p.m. Sept.19
– 1000 block of N. Lorel Ave., 5 p.m. Sept.18
– 5100 block of W. West End Ave., 9:30 p.m. Sept. 12
– 5800 block of W. Jackson Blvd., 3:30 a.m. Sept. 18
AVONDALE
– 3100 block of N. Spaulding Ave., 8 p.m. Sept. 15
BRIGHTON PARK
– 4400 block of S. Sawyer Ave., 4:53 a.m. Sept. 9
– 4100 block of S. Campbell Ave., 4:01 a.m. Sept. 12
CHICAGO LAWN
– 6300 block of S. Rockwell St., 5:04 p.m. Sept. 16
– 6500 block of S. Richmond St., 12 p.m. Sept. 18
DOUGLAS
– 3700 block of S. King Drive, 8 p.m. Sept. 21
EAST GARFIELD PARK
– 3500 block of W. Adams St., 10:25 p.m. Sept. 8
– 3600 block of W. Madison St., 3 a.m. Sept. 14
ENGLEWOOD
– 5500 block of S. May St.,
9 a.m. Sept. 19
– 500 block of W. Englewood Ave., 5 p.m. Sept. 9
FOREST GLEN
– 5400 block of N. Forest Glen Ave., 3 p.m. Sept. 18
GAGE PARK
– 5500 block of S. Mozart Ave., 3 p.m. Sept. 12
GARFIELD RIDGE
– 5400 block of S. Archer Ave., 10:30 p.m. Sept. 17
GRAND BOULEVARD
– 4300 block of S. Wabash Ave., 3 a.m. Sept. 17
– 400 block of E. 50th St., 2:30 a.m. Sept. 12
GREATER GRAND CROSSING
– 7400 block of S. Langley Ave., 8:30 p.m. Sept. 14
– 7400 block of S. St. Lawrence Ave., 4:40 p.m. Sept. 14
HEGEWISCH
– 13400 block of S. Greenbay Drive, 2 a.m. Sept. 17
HUMBOLDT PARK
– 3300 block of W. Division St., 10:30 p.m. Sept. 12
– 3500 block of W. Chicago Ave., 12:30 a.m. Sept. 21
– 700 block of N. Spaulding Ave., 6:30 a.m. Sept. 12
HYDE PARK
– 1000 block of E. 60th St., 1:30 a.m. Sept. 15
KENWOOD
– 4900 block of S. Dorchester Ave., 10:30 a.m. Sept. 9
LAKEVIEW
– 1200 block of W. Diversey Pkwy., 5 a.m. Sept. 17
LINCOLN PARK
– 2400 block of N. Sheffield Ave., 4 a.m. Sept. 16
– 1700 block of N. Mohawk St., 10 p.m. Sept. 19
LOGAN SQUARE
– 2200 block of W. Armitage Ave., 4:20 a.m. Sept. 10
– 1800 block of N. Washtenaw Ave., 11:40 p.m. Sept. 9
LOOP
– 300 block of N. Michigan Ave., 8:39 p.m. Sept. 12
MT. GREENWOOD
– 10000 block of S. Homan Ave., 4:30 p.m. Sept. 9
– 3000 block of W. 110th Pl., 12:30 a.m. Sept.13
MORGAN PARK
– 11000 block of S. Hermosa Ave., 10:50 p.m. Sept. 16
NEAR NORTH SIDE
– 1200 block of N. Clark St., 10:30 p.m. Sept. 21
– 1100 block of N. Orleans St.,
1 p.m. Sept. 12
– 600 block of W. Division St., 6:15 a.m. Sept. 15
– 900 block of W. Weed St., 11:30 p.m. Sept. 11
NEAR WEST SIDE
– 1600 block of W. Jackson Blvd., 1:54 a.m. Sept. 18
– 1400 block of W. Randolph St., 6:02 a.m. Sept. 17
– 2000 block of W. Madison St., 5 a.m. Sept. 11
– 1900 block of W. Harrison St., 6:30 p.m. Sept. 11
– 2600 block of W. Madison St., 12:30 a.m. Sept. 19
NORTH CENTER
– 2900 block of N. Leavitt St., 5 p.m. Sept. 12
NORTH PARK
– 3800 block of W. Bryn Mawr Ave., 4 p.m. Sept. 10
– 4100 block of W. Peterson Ave., 10:07 p.m. Sept. 15
OAKLAND
– 4000 block of S. Lake Park Ave., 10 p.m. Sept. 21
ROGERS PARK
– 1000 block of W. Loyola Ave., 3 a.m. Sept. 11
SOUTH CHICAGO
– 8000 block of S. Muskegon Ave., 2:30 a.m. Sept. 17
SOUTH DEERING
– 9700 block of S. Merrill Ave., 5:53 p.m. Sept. 21
SOUTH LAWNDALE
– 4000 block of W. 31st St., 4:45 p.m. Sept. 14
SOUTH SHORE
– 7500 block of S. Stony Island Ave., 2:30 a.m. Sept. 10
– 7100 block of S. East End Ave., 10 a.m. Sept. 14
– 7300 block of S. Exchange Ave., 10 a.m. Sept. 12
– 2100 block of E. 72nd St.,
2 a.m. Sept. 17
UPTOWN
– 4900 block of N. Kenmore Ave., 8 p.m. Sept. 17
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
– 9000 block of S. Halsted St., 11:01 p.m. Sept. 11
– 1300 block of W. 95th St., 3:09 p.m. Sept. 8
WEST ENGLEWOOD
– 7200 block of S. Hermitage Ave., 4 p.m. Sept. 13
– 6500 block of S. Damen Ave., 3 p.m. Sept. 12
WEST LAWN
– 3700 block of W. 70th St., 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10
WEST PULLMAN
– 12000 block of S. Peoria St., 10:30 p.m. Sept. 14
– 300 block of W. 116th St.,
8 a.m. Sept. 17
WEST RIDGE
– 6100 block of N. California Ave., 1:45 a.m. Sept. 10
WEST TOWN
– 1400 block of N. Claremont Ave., 5:30 p.m. Sept. 9
– 1600 block of N. Campbell Ave., 3:30a.m. Sept. 18
– 1800 block of W. Augusta Blvd., 1 a.m. Sept. 19
– 2500 block of W. Chicago Ave. 11:50 p.m. Sept. 8
WOODLAWN
– 6200 block of S. Ellis Ave., 10:30 p.m. Sept. 12
– 6200 block of S. King Drive, 11:45 a.m. Sept. 12
– 6500 block of S. King Drive, 4:30 a.m. Sept. 21
To get help
The Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline is open 24 hours a day at 888-293-2080.
