Chicago police are warning enterprise house owners citywide a few surge in business burglaries which have focused at the least 35 retailers and eating places from the South Loop to Norwood Park over the previous two months. CPD has recognized 4 separate however probably overlapping housebreaking patterns throughout a number of police districts, spanning a lot of the town’s North, West, and South Sides.
In response to 4 enterprise alerts issued in current days, crews or lone offenders have smashed their manner by means of glass doorways and home windows to steal money, merchandise, or ATMs in dozens of incidents between late August and this week.
One of many broadest patterns entails as much as eight masked offenders—believed to be between 15 and 25 years outdated—who’ve focused at the least 17 shops between September 21 and October 15. The suspects struck in areas together with Brighton Park, Logan Sq., Lake View East, Edgewater, Gage Park, Garfield Ridge, and the Loop. In every case, they broke glass entryways, entered the enterprise, and stole merchandise or money registers.
A separate sequence of burglaries hit downtown companies within the West Loop, Printer’s Row, and South Loop neighborhoods between October 10 and October 14. Police mentioned a lone suspect compelled his manner by means of entrance glass doorways or home windows to seize money from registers. The offender is described as a Black man standing between 5 ft 9 inches and 6 ft tall, sporting both a black jacket or white sweatshirt, black denims, and a baseball cap.
In a 3rd patter, CPD mentioned 5 North Facet companies had been hit inside a four-hour span on October 15, police mentioned. Between 3:26 and 6:58 a.m., burglars broke into storefronts in Lake View East, Lake View, Lincoln Sq., Andersonville, and Roscoe Village. The offenders—one or two Black males in darkish clothes, hoodies, gloves, and black masks—stole money from registers earlier than fleeing.
Detectives are additionally investigating one other housebreaking sequence tied to a white SUV, which started in August and continued by means of early October within the 14th, sixteenth, and seventeenth Districts. In these incidents, a person wearing darkish clothes and gloves smashed into companies in Logan Sq., Belmont Central, Norwood Park, North Park, and Irving Park, taking money from registers.
Investigators from Areas One, Three, and 5 are dealing with the circumstances. CPD’s alerts urge enterprise house owners to maintain properties properly lit, be sure that surveillance programs are recording, and report suspicious exercise.
Nameless suggestions might be submitted to the police at CPDTIP.com.
Right here’s a listing of all 35 business housebreaking incidents talked about within the 4 CPD enterprise alerts:
AUGUST 2025
August 25, 12:30 a.m. within the 3300 block of West Armitage Avenue (Logan Sq.)
SEPTEMBER 2025
- September 21–22, 7:30 p.m.–5 a.m. within the 4300 block of South Talman Avenue (Brighton Park)
- September 22, 1:25 a.m. within the 200 block of West Van Buren Road (Chicago Loop)
- September 22, 1:42 a.m. within the 2900 block of North Sheffield Avenue (Lake View East)
- September 22, 1:56 a.m. within the 2300 block of North California Avenue (Logan Sq.)
- September 22, 4:40 a.m. within the 3200 block of North Narragansett Avenue (Belmont Central)
- September 22, 4:52 a.m. within the 6100 block of West Belmont Avenue (Belmont Central)
- September 22, 4:05 a.m. within the 5500 block of North Broadway (Edgewater)
- September 23, 2:25 a.m. within the 4200 block of South Archer Avenue (Brighton Park)
- September 23, 2:40 a.m. within the 4200 block of South Archer Avenue (Brighton Park)
- September 24, 2:21 a.m. within the 2300 block of North California Avenue (Logan Sq.)
OCTOBER 2025
- October 5, 5:28 a.m. within the 4600 block of West Diversey Avenue (Kelvyn Park)
- October 5, 6:47 a.m. within the 2200 block of South Indiana Avenue (Close to South Facet)
- October 5, 10:40 p.m. within the 6400 block of North Milwaukee Avenue (Norwood Park)
- October 6–7, 9:30 p.m.–7:05 a.m. within the 3400 block of West Irving Park Highway (Irving Park)
- October 6–7, 4:15 p.m.–8:00 a.m. within the 3400 block of West Irving Park Highway (Irving Park)
- October 7, 2:04 a.m. within the 3300 block of West Bryn Mawr Avenue (North Park)
- October 7, 2:53 a.m. within the 4000 block of North Western Avenue (North Heart)
- October 7, 3:39 a.m. within the 500 block of West Grenshaw Road (South Loop)
- October 10, 1:42 a.m. within the 600 block of West Lake Road (West Loop Gate)
- October 12, 5:31 a.m. within the 3200 block of West 59th Road (Chicago Garden)
- October 13, 4:45 a.m. within the 5601 block of South Kedzie Avenue (Gage Park)
- October 13, 7:06 a.m. within the 600 block of South Clark Road (Printer’s Row)
- October 14, 2:20 a.m. within the 500 block of West Roosevelt Highway (South Loop)
- October 15, 12:30 a.m. within the 5500 block of South Archer Avenue (Garfield Ridge)
- October 15, 3:26 a.m. within the 3700 block of North Broadway (Lake View East)
- October 15, 3:47 a.m. within the 0–100 block of East ninth Road (Chicago Loop)
- October 15, 4:30 a.m. within the 5000 block of South Kedzie Avenue (Gage Park)
- October 15, 6:15 a.m. within the 3400 block of North Southport Avenue (Lake View)
- October 15, 6:41 a.m. within the 1900 block of West Foster Avenue (Lincoln Sq.)
- October 15, 6:43 a.m. within the 5200 block of North Clark Road (Andersonville)
- October 15, 6:58 a.m. within the 1900 block of West Addison Road (Roscoe Village)
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