2 additional victims and a slew of new allegations for rape suspect

New sexual assault and robbery charges stemming from two additional incidents have been filed against a 30-year-old man already in jail in similar attacks late last month near Midway Airport and on the Northwest Side.
James Whiteside, of the 600 block of West Deming Street on the North Side, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking, vehicular invasion, attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated battery of a child under the age of 13, and armed robbery.
Whiteside is scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.
The new charges involve attacks that happened the day before and the day after the pair of Dec. 27 attacks in which he’s already being held without bail -- which occurred near the Orange Line at Midway Airport and in the Montclare neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Whiteside was identified as the person who, while armed with a knife, sexually assaulted a woman in the 7000 block of North Clark Street on Dec. 26, 2013, before taking her money and fleeing in her vehicle. Two days later, he was also identified as the offender who entered the vehicle of a 29 year old woman in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, and demanded her money and car keys while holding a knife. The woman’s child was also in the car during this incident Whiteside placed a knife to her neck while she was holding her 3-year-old daughter. He demanded money and the keys to her car. He then grabbed the victim by the neck and snatched her cell phone, which he broke into pieces after it rang.
When Whiteside saw the woman’s husband walking up, he fled through a parking lot.
On Dec. 30, Whiteside was held without bail in connection with the two Dec. 27 attacks. 
The first of those happened in the Montclare neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 27. Whiteside attacked a woman trying to get into her car after leaving a White Castle restaurant near Belmont and Harlem avenues, according to police. The attacker pushed his victim into her car as she opened the driver-side door and, holding a pair of 3-inch scissors and covering her mouth, told her not to scream.
The woman told police she noticed the man as she walked into the White Castle but didn’t pay much attention to him because she thought he was homeless, according to the report.
The man threatened to kill her, then drove her to a nearby side street and raped her. The man then kept her in the car, drove until the car broke down on Diversey Avenue and threw her car keys away.
He took the woman's phone and debit card and walked her to a bank to try to  withdraw money. The two walked to a nearby gas station and the attacker used $50 he stole from the woman to pay a stranger for a ride to his aunt house in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to the report. They stopped at a McDonald's along the way.
The attacker gave some of the woman's money to people at his aunt's house, according to the arrest report. He then called a cab, took two children and the victim with him to a McDonald's and then to Harlem and Belmont avenues where he dropped her off.  He told her not to say anything to anyone and then left.
The woman went to a building a few blocks away and called 911. She told police the man said his name was "James" but that "she should call him Mr. White or (Sergeant) Nelson" .
The second attack happened about 4:15 p.m. that same day in a secured parking lot off the Orange Line at Midway Airport. Chicago police warned people in the area to be vigilant after the attack.
Police said the attacker pushed a 69-year-old woman into her car as she opened her door and demanded money from her before he raped her, according to a police report. He tried to leave the lot by driving the woman's car but couldn't find a parking card, so he told the woman to be quiet and duck while he used her money to fill out a parking slip and pay the attendant, according to the police report.
The woman feared for her life because her attacker drove her to the West Side and repeatedly threatened her, according to the police report.
While driving around the West Side, her attacker "purchased narcotics" twice and picked up a woman he knew, drove to a liquor store and used the 69-year-old's ATM card to get $200, according to the report. He dropped the woman off at a bus stop and she told the attacker to be careful, according to the report. He then left the victim and her car in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at Madison Street and Pulaski Road.
The victim called 911 but left the area to report the crime from closer to home, according to the report.
After the 911 call, two more withdrawals were made from the woman's bank account, for a total of $300, according to the police report.
Whiteside "implicated himself" in the attacks in conversations with other people and gave details consistent with the victim's account, according to his arrest report in Dec. 27 attacks. He told residents he "robbed and raped a woman the night before," according to the report.
Detectives were in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood when Whiteside showed up to a building where detectives were investigating and tried to run when he learned detectives were there, according to the report.
They chased him into a basement stairwell in the 4100 block of West Crystal Street and he was arrested there

Man charged in Midway Orange Line, Montclare rape attacks

A  30-year-old Park West man was charged with a pair of sexual assaults on Friday – one near the Orange Line at Midway Airport and the other in the Montclare neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
James Whiteside, of the 600 block of West Deming Street on the North Side. Whiteside was charged with 8 felonies in connection with the two attacks.
The first attack happened in the Montclare neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 27. Whiteside attacked a woman trying to get into her car after leaving a White Castle restaurant near Belmont and Harlem avenues
The attacker pushed his victim into her car as she opened the driver-side door and, holding a pair of 3-inch scissors and covering her mouth, told her not to scream.
The woman told police she noticed the man as she walked into the White Castle at Belmont and Harlem avenues but didn’t pay him much attention because she thought he was homeless.
The man threatened to kill her and then drove her to a nearby side street and raped her.
The man then kept her in the car, drove until the car broke down on Diversey Avenue and threw her car keys away. He took her phone, debit card and walked her to a bank to try and withdraw money.
The two walked to a nearby gas station and the attacker used $50 he stole from the woman to pay a stranger for a ride to the house of the attacker's aunt in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood. They stopped at a McDonald's along the way.
The attacker gave some of the woman's money to people at his aunt's house. He then called a cab, took two kids and the victim with him to a McDonald's and then to Harlem and Belmont avenues where he dropped her off.
He told her not to say anything to anyone before leaving. The woman went to a building a few blocks away and called 911.
She told police the man said his name was "James" but that "she should call him Mr. White or (Sergeant) Nelson" .
The second attack happened about 4:15 p.m. Friday in a secured parking lot off the Orange Line at Midway Airport in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood. Chicago police warned people in the area to be vigilant after the attack.
Police said the attacker pushed the 69-year-old woman into her car as she opened her door and demanded money from her before he raped her.
He tried to leave the lot by driving the woman's car but couldn't find the parking pass card so he told the woman to be quiet and duck while he used her money to fill out a parking slip and pay the attendant.
The woman was in fear for her life because her attacker drove her to the West Side and made continuous threats along the way.
While driving around the West Side, her attacker "purchased narcotics" twice and picked up a woman he knew, drove to a liquor store and used the 69-year-old's ATM card to get $200.
He dropped the woman off at a bus stop and she told the attacker to be careful. He then left the victim and her car in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at Madison Street and Pulaski Road.
The victim called 911 but left the area to report the crime from closer to home. Two more withdrawals were made for a total of $300.
Whiteside "implicated himself" to other people in the attacks and gave details consistent with the victim's account. He told residents he "robbed and raped a woman the night before".
Detectives were in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood when Whiteside showed up to a building where detectives were investigating and tried to run when he learned detectives were there.
They chased him into a basement stairwell in the 4100 block of West Crystal Street and he was arrested there.
He was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of a victim older than 60 years old, aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated kidnapping, armed robbery with a dangerous weapon, aggravated robbery and aggravated vehicular hijacking.

Woman, 69, sexually assaulted, robbed leaving CTA Orange Line

A 69-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and robbed as she exited an Orange Line CTA train and was getting into her vehicle on Friday.
The incident spurred a community alert by Chicago police officials who are warning people in the area to be vigilant.
The attack happened at 4:15 p.m. on the 4600 block of West 59th Street in the Garfield Ridge community.
The woman was returning home from work when she left the Orange Line train and was entering her vehicle, which was in a secured parking lot.
A man forced her into the vehicle after telling her he had a gun. Once she was inside the vehicle, the man sexually assaulted her and robbed her of money, a cell phone and an ATM card.
The man then drove the woman to various locations and forced her to make withdrawals from her bank account before he abandoned the woman and her vehicle on the West Side.
The man is described as a black man about 20 years old, between 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 9 inches tall and between 140 and 150 pounds.

2 charged in deaths of mom, daughter found in burning car

The mother and daughter found dead in a burning car in a southwest suburban forest preserve had been strangled earlier in the day by the younger woman's husband and an accomplice.
Robert Danno, 50, and Jose Fernardo Martinez-Hernandez, 24, are each charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Mary Ann Urban-Danno, 51, and her mother, Theresa Urban, 71.
Authorities believe the men strangled Danno's wife and mother-in-law Saturday on Chicago's Southwest Side, then loaded their bodies into a PT Cruiser and drove to a forest preserve near Palos Park, leaving the vehicle on fire.
Firefighters were called to the Cap Sauers Holdings Nature Preserve near Ford and Wolf roads around 11:45 p.m. Saturday. Crews found the vehicle engulfed in flames and discovered the bodies after putting out the fire.
Autopsies on Sunday determined that both women had been strangled and their deaths have been ruled homicides.
Officials believe the murders happened Saturday in the 5600 block of South Neenah Avenue, in Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood

Man accused of assaulting female CTA bus driver

A Far South Side man is accused of assaulting a woman as she drove a CTA bus in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Gabriel Hayes, 33, of the 300 block of East 120th Place, has been charged with aggravated battery of a transit employee and criminal sexual abuse.
The 30-year-old bus driver told police Hayes approached her around 4 a.m. Wednesday while she was standing outside at a bus turn-around at Archer and Neva avenues. Hayes told her she was “pretty” and exposed himself, but he left when she told him to go away
But he boarded her bus when it was back in service and molested her while she was driving.
She stopped the bus and called authorities who arrested Hayes at 4:40 a.m. at 7101 W. Archer Ave

Man struck, killed by taxi near Midway Airport

A man who was killed when a taxi cab struck him late last night when he stepped into Cicero Avenue near Midway Airport has been identified.
The cab was moving south in the 5200 block of South Cicero Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Monday when a man, believed to be in his 50s, stepped into the road just south of Archer Avenue.
Janusz Kamienski, 56, of the 400 block of Annawood Drive in Yukon, Oklahoma, died at the scene

Trial set for cable repairman accused of 2006 slaying

A jury was selected Tuesday to decide the fate of Anthony Triplett, a cable repairman charged with raping and strangling Urszula Sakowska, 23, in December 2006 when he went to her Southwest Side home to fix their Internet service.
At the time of Sakowska's slaying, Triplett was a suspect in the similar killing of Janice Ordidge, 39, who was found raped and strangled seven weeks earlier in the bathtub of her Hyde Park home. Triplett had been sent to Ordidge's home to fix her Internet service, authorities allege.
Chicago police came under fire after Triplett's arrest when it was revealed that his DNA had not been sent to the state crime lab for comparison with evidence found at the scene of Ordidge's slaying, despite his being an early suspect. The DNA matched, and critics contended Sakowska's slaying could have been prevented if the tests had been done sooner.
Prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty for Triplett before it was abolished in 2011. In the meantime, Triplett's team of lawyers has gone through several changes and filed a lengthy stream of motions to suppress evidence.
Prosecutors are trying Triplett only for Sakowska's slaying but intend to bring out evidence that he also killed Ordidge. He faces a possible life sentence if he is convicted.
According to prosecutors, Triplett went to Ordidge's home in the 1600 block of East 50th Street on Oct. 21, 2006, to fix her Comcast Internet service. While he was there, Ordidge allegedly told a friend over the phone that Triplett had made remarks about her appearance that made her uncomfortable. Two days later, police officers conducting a well-being check found her body in the bathtub, prosecutors said.
Police interviewed Triplett after the slaying and took forensic samples from the scene. According to a timeline released later by police, the state crime lab received the samples in early November, but DNA testing that linked Triplett to Ordidge's attack was not finished until Dec. 12, four days after Sakowska's murder

2 shot in Garfield Ridge

At about 2:50 a.m., 2 people were shot near 51st Street and Central Avenue in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side. One was taken to an unknown hospital from that scene and another was dropped off at Holy Cross Hospital

Police warn of Southwest Side sexual assault

Chicago police issued a community alert this afternoon warning about a criminal sexual assault early this morning on the city's Southwest Side.
Shortly after 3 a.m., a 48-year-old woman was sleeping in her home on the 5200 block of South Nagle Avenue when she was awakened by a man who sexually assaulted her.
Police only had a vague description of the man, saying he is tall, thin and was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt.

Police warn of cell phone store robberies

Chicago detectives are warning businesses about a pair of men who have robbed Noble Square and Garfield Ridge neighborhoods.
The robberies happened on March 2 in the 1500 block of West Chicago Avenue about 3:55 p.m. and two days later in the 5600 block of South Harlem Avenue about 4:10 p.m.
One suspect is a black man between the ages of 35 and 45, between 5-foot-6 and 6-feet tall, between 140 and 160 pounds, wearing a blue jacket, black skull cap, blue jeans and black gym shoes.
The other was wearing a black skull cap, a black sweater, and tan work pants and tan work boots. He's described as a black man between 25 and 40 years old, between 5-foot-8 and 6-foot-3, and between 155 and 165 pounds.
Police said one entered a telephone store, followed shortly after by a second. The pair held up the store at gunpoint and fled with cash and electronic items