Rachel Cromidas

Police warn about pickpocketing rash at North Side CTA stations

June 18, 2018 at 10:05 a.m.

Chicago Police are warning the public about a rash of pickpocketing incidents around Lakeview and Lincoln Park CTA stations in recent weeks. Seven people reported they had property stolen from...

Police officers stand near a crime scene after a fatal shooting in the 2400 block of West Fillmore Street on May 20.

Chicago Police to monitor West Town for DUIs this weekend

June 18, 2018 at 10:48 a.m.

The Chicago Police Department will be stopping cars at random in West Town and other parts of the 14th District Saturday night to check for people driving while intoxicated. The...

North Side food delivery drivers are robbery targets, police warn

May 21, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.

Food delivery drivers around the North Side have been the targets of several robberies in the past week, according to a Chicago Police Department alert. During each of the robberies,...

Artist Margot McMahon created the Jackson Park "Flock of Birds" art installation. Next she'll be working on two North Side trees near the Belmont exist of Lake Shore Drive.

Dead trees turned into art in parks, along Chicago’s lakefront

May 21, 2019 at 7:12 p.m.

Two trees once slated for the ax are being transformed into works of art—oversized chess pieces—just off Lake Shore Drive, near the Belmont exit. The two trees will become a...

Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Ukrainian Village are bike-theft hotspots: Analysis

June 18, 2018 at 11:28 a.m.

Where are bikes most likely to get stolen in Chicago? This month the apartment listing website Hotpads.com crunched the numbers, and found that Lincoln Park, Lakeview and Ukrainian Village are...

Millennium Park ice skating rink opens, just in time for cold blast

June 18, 2018 at 11:32 a.m.

Millennium Park's ice skating rink is now open—just in time for the first blast of winter this season. The rink opened Friday and, weather permitting, will remain open through March...

Check out this device that can use your motions to charge your phone

May 21, 2019 at 7:06 p.m.

A group of Northwestern University graduate students have found a solution to a problem of the digital age: what to do when your cell phone is dying while you're out,...

Second man charged in Orange Line robbery from last summer

June 17, 2018 at 9:46 a.m.

A second man has been charged in the July Orange Line robbery where two men allegedly held up a Loop-bound train car and robbed several people between the Halsted and...

On this Election Day, folks were lined up for … Shake Shack

June 18, 2018 at 12:13 p.m.

Hours after the polls opened for the midterm elections Tuesday morning, a line of more than 100 people stretched down Ohio Street between Rush Street and Wabash Avenue. No, they...

A bicyclist tries to maneuver through debris on Monday as workers remove damaged pavement from last Friday's storm along Chicago's lakefront between North Avenue and Oak Street beach.

Stretches of lakefront path closed because of storm damage

May 21, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

Stretches of the lakefront path are closed, three days after a Halloween storm whipped up Lake Michigan and sent waves crashing across some beaches, exercise paths and Lake Shore Drive....

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