Warning Issued After String Of Armed Robberies On NW Side
CHICAGO (STMW) – Police in a handful of Northwest Side districts have issued an advisory to neighborhood 7-Eleven and Subway stores of a recent spate of armed robberies. Surveillance photos of the...
View ArticleRape Victim Flags Down Off-Duty Cop
CHICAGO (STMW) — A Far South Side man was charged with sexually assaulting a woman who flagged down an off-duty police officer who said he was “in the right place at the right time’’ Wednesday at a...
View ArticleMan Held For Stealing Nacho Cheese, Attacking 7-11 Clerk
CHICAGO (CBS/WBBM) – A small-time felon was ordered held on $10,000 bond over the weekend, after he allegedly stole some cheese and found himself the butt of an old joke. As WBBM Newsradio 780’s Bernie...
View ArticleCity Shutters 7-Eleven Over House Flies
UPDATED 08/10/11 3:50 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Customers on the Northwest Side’s Montclare neighborhood will have to go elsewhere for their Big Gulps and Slurpees, after the City of Chicago closed a 7-11...
View ArticleVilla Park Police Seek Armed Robbery Suspects
VILLA PARK, Ill. (STMW) – Police in west suburban Villa Park have released surveillance photos of two men who robbed a 7-Eleven store at gunpoint earlier this month, in an attempt to identify and...
View ArticleBogus Robbery At Seven-11 Leads To Charges
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two men are facing charges after allegedly staging a fake armed robbery at a 7-Eleven store in McHenry last weekend. Jamie Lee Lima, 28, and Jamie Lee Lima, 25, both of McHenry, are...
View Article7-11 Store Owners: Online Lottery Sales Could Mean Massive Layoffs
CHICAGO (CBS) — Owners of 7-Eleven stores are warning of massive layoffs to come, unless the Illinois Lottery protects them from competition from the online sales that are expected to start this year....
View ArticleMega Millions Rolls Over Again, Jackpot At $356M
CHICAGO (STMW) – All the Mega Millions players who’ve spent the past few days dreaming of how they would spend nearly $300 million now will have to start dreaming about what they would do with more...
View ArticleTwo Suspects Sought In Forest Park Shooting
UPDATED 04/30/12 6:12 a.m. FOREST PARK, Ill. (CBS) – Police in west suburban Forest Park are on the lookout for two suspects involved in a shooting over a cell phone this past weekend. As WBBM...
View ArticleMen Rob South Side 7-Eleven, Slash Clerk With Machete
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police are looking for two suspects who used a not-so-ordinary weapon during a hold-up overnight on the South Side. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, the armed robbery...
View ArticleMan Charged With Robbing Northwestern Students In Evanston
EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) — A man has surrendered to police in connection with the armed robbery of three students at Northwestern University in Evanston. Timothy Blue, 23, turned himself in Evanston police...
View ArticleMan In Spider-Man Mask Robbed Same 7-Eleven Twice
Updated 02/20/13 – 11:43 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Spider-Man is supposed to catch the crooks just like flies, not be one himself. But a man wearing a blue and red Spider-Man mask entered a Northwest Side...
View ArticleWest Suburban 7-Eleven Robbed At Gunpoint
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill. (STMW) — Police in west suburban Glendale Heights are asking for the public’s help in finding the man who robbed a 7-Eleven store at gunpoint early Tuesday. About 2:45 a.m....
View ArticlePolice: ‘Strong Possibility’ Robberies At Pizzeria, 7-Eleven Are Connected
Updated 03/28/14 – 10:42 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago police were investigating whether overnight robberies at a pizzeria in the West Loop and a 7-Eleven in Lincoln Square were related. CBS 2’s...
View ArticleHipster Apocalypse? 7-Eleven Selling Slurpee Mason Jars
By John Dodge CHICAGO (CBS) — The “hipster” era has reached a defining moment in its history. A sign of the hipster apocalypse comes on news that 7-Eleven is selling plastic Mason jars with moustache...
View ArticleWoman Crashes SUV Into Palos Heights 7-Eleven
PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. (STMW) – A woman drove her SUV through a 7-Eleven convenience store Wednesday night in southwest suburban Palos Heights. Police responded to the call about 8:30 p.m. at 7-Eleven,...
View ArticlePhoto: Man Crashes Car Into Lombard 7-Eleven
LOMBARD (CBS) — A west suburban man who was out to pick up a gallon of milk allegedly drove his car through a window and into a 7-Eleven convenience store Sunday morning in Lombard. Junior A. Espinal,...
View ArticleMan Charged With Robbing 7-Eleven In Niles
CHICAGO (STMW) – A northwest suburban man has been charged Tuesday with robbing a Niles 7-Eleven in November. Martell Flippins, 26, entered 7-Eleven, 7450 Oakton St., at 3:05 a.m. on Nov. 7 and made...
View ArticleTwo Suspects In Custody After Robbery Leads To Chase, Crash
http://media.chicago.cbslocal.com/CBSCHI_20150327131007687AA.mp4 CHICAGO (CBS) — Police said two suspects were in custody from at least one of a string of convenience store robberies early Friday,...
View ArticleMan Charged With Robbing West Suburban 7-Eleven
CHICAGO (STMW) — A 24-year-old man was charged for allegedly robbing a 7-Eleven in west suburban Glen Ellyn last week. William D. Kendrick, of the 300 block of Klein Creek Court in Carol Stream, has...
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