Man walks into South Side hospital after being shot on North Side

A 23-year-old man walked into Mercy Hospital and Medical Center after being wounded in an early morning shooting in the city's Noble Square neighborhood.According to preliminary reports, the man was sitting in a car about 3 a.m. on the 1300 block of West Division Street when a gunman approached and fired shots, striking the victim in the arm and hip.
The man walked into the hospital, where he is listed as in good condition. The hospital is about 6 miles southeast of where police said the man was shot.

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

CVS manager tapes staffer inside ladies room

A CVS manager hid an iPhone set on record in the ladies restroom after ordering one of his staffers to change her shirt on Thanksgiving at the store in the city's Noble Square neighborhood.
The man, 42-year-old Glennis Warburton, had a crush on the 28-year-old woman.
On Monday was charged with felony unauthorized videotaping, records show.
Warburton intentionally hid an iPhone with its recording device activated inside paper towels in the women's washroom of the store at 2053 N. Milwaukee Ave. while ordering the 28-year-old woman to change her shirt.
He told police that he'd placed the phone there after learning she had lost weight and that he had a crush on her.
The victim told police Warburton told her the regional manager was coming to visit the store and that he needed to change the shirt to a promotional shirt .
After she did, he told her the shirt was too big and demanded that she change again. She called police after finding the iPhone as she was drying her hands.
There was no indication from police that Warburton had done this to anyone else.

21-year-old man shot in Noble Square

Someone shot a 21-year-old man twice in the leg in the 1400 block of West Walton Street in the Noble Square neighborhood about 2:16 a.m.. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition

Truck driver ticketed after fatally striking bicyclist in Noble Square neighborhood

A male bicyclist was pronounced dead this morning after being struck by a truck in the Noble Square neighborhood.
The accident happened at the intersection of Ashland Avenue and Augusta Boulevard at about 10 a.m..
The truck and the bicycle were traveling westbound on Augusta when the driver of the truck tried to make a right turn onto Ashland Avenue and struck the bicyclist.
The driver of the truck, Danny Darling, 47, of Michigan City, Ind., remained at the scene and was ticketed for making an improper right turn.
Chicago Fire Department paramedics took the victim to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
The Cook County medical examiner's office said the man was in his 50s and was pronounced dead at 10:35 a.m.

Man shot in Noble Square

A man in his 20s was struck in the leg in the Noble Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side early Thursday.
The man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in good condition. The shooting occurred at about 12:20 a.m.

Man accused in botched $2 robbery used plastic toy gun, prosecutors say

After failing to procure beer from a liquor store, a Chicago man approached a woman nearby and used a toy gun to try to rob her of $2 before he was tackled by a bystander.

Wayne Dearmond, 29, was arrested Saturday morning after the alleged botched robbery outside a liquor store on Milwaukee Avenue near Ashland Avenue in the Noble Square neighborhood, prosecutors said. He faces charges of aggravated attempted armed robbery, and, in a brief court appearance Sunday, Cook County Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil ordered him held on $300,000 bond.

Around 10 a.m. Saturday, Dearmond, of the 2800 block of South Trumbull Avenue, walked into the liquor store and tried to buy a six-pack of beer and a cigar before telling the clerk he didn’t have enough money. He tried to leave with the goods, and threatened to shoot a man who snatched the beer and cigar from him before two men shoved him out of the store.
Dearmond then approached 48-year-old woman in a nearby parking lot, pointed a plastic toy gun at her and ordered her to give him $2. Seeing one of the men from the liquor store approaching, he told the woman that if she didn’t give him the $2 he would kill the man.
Dearmond tried to walk away, but he didn’t get far before he was tackled by “a citizen,”

3 trying to foil car theft shot, 4 held for questioning

Four people were being questioned this morning after three employees of a Noble Square neighborhood restaurant were shot and seriously wounded tonight when they apparently tried to stop the theft of another employee's car parked behind the store.
At 8:15 p.m., two men and a woman were shot in the 1400 block of West Cortez Street.
Paramedics responded to the nearby address of 1072 N. Milwaukee Ave. for the shooting and took three people to hospitals in serious condition.
The two men, ages 21 and 33, were shot in the leg. The younger of the two is in stable condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the other in stable condition atJohn H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
The woman, 21, was shot in the leg and ankle and taken in stable condition to Stroger Hospital.
The three victims worked at the Frontier Restaurant at the Milwaukee Avenue address and saw someone trying to steal a car from the alley behind the establishment when they were wounded.
The restaurant's owner said the victims are a bartender, cook and manager. He said another cook had walked out the rear of the restaurant and saw a group of four or five people in his car, apparently trying to steal it from where it was parked in the alley.
The cook ran back inside the restaurant to get help, and a few people from inside went into the back alley, the owner said.
Police could not immediately confirm all the details provided by the owner, but said the three victims were expected to survive.

Person shot in Noble Square neighborhood

A Noble Square shooting has wounded one person this afternoon.
Someone shot the male in the chest at 2:26 p.m. in the 1500 block of West Haddon Street.