North Side burglaries prompt community alert

Sun-Times Wire

Police are warning residents of burglaries on the North Side in the last few weeks.

In each burglary, people have entered the home through windows or doors and stolen electronics, jewelry, cash and other items, according to the alert from Chicago Police.

The burglaries happened:

• about 3 p.m. Jan. 14 in the 5800 block of North Medina
• between 8:15 a.m. and 8:45 p.m. Jan. 26 in the 5400 block of North Mulligan
• between 4 p.m. Feb. 1 and 1 a.m. Feb. 2 in the 4800 block of North Mulligan
• between 9 a.m. and 4:37 p.m. Feb. 2 in the 5500 block of North Melvina
• between 12:30 p.m. and 1:50 p.m. Feb. 2 in the 6200 block of W. Gregory

Anyone with information should contact Area North detectives at (312) 744-8263.

Possible camera found in North Side school faculty bathroom

Chicago police are investigating a plastic device resembling a camera found in the faculty bathroom of a school on the city's Near North Side.

Police said a staff member of the Ogden International School's East Campus discovered the device Wednesday.

In a letter sent home to parents, the school's principal Michael Beyer said police removed the device which "is not designed to send information, so we are confident that no images were transmitted by the device." Beyer also said school security also conducted a full sweep of both buildings and found no other devices.

Info from this article via ABC 7 Chicago

Metra train struck by lightning on North Side

NORTH SIDE, CHICAGO -- A Metra train on the Union Pacific North Line was struck by lightning Tuesday morning in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side. 

Outbound train No. 309, scheduled to arrive in Kenosha at 8:18 a.m., was stopped shortly before 7:30 a.m. when it was struck by lightning, causing a mechanical failure near the Rogers Park Station, 7000 N. Ravenswood Ave., according to an alert from Metra. 

Metra spokesman Tom Miller said no injuries were reported.

Robbers with knives strike six times in Chicago's North Side

LINCOLN PARK -- Robbers armed with knives struck at least six times in just over an hour Monday afternoon on Chicago’s North Side, according to police.

Among the victims in the crime spree was a group of eighth-grade boys held at knifepoint near Wrightwood and Greenview Avenues in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

The suspects demanded the boys’ cellphones before taking off in a dark car, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Area North detectives at (312) 744-8263.