Initial reports indicated a cabdriver was shot on the 7200 block of North Sheridan Road, near Touhy and Sheridan.
Even though the shooting was reported by a Chicago police officer and an ambulance was requested, that report was later denied.
Police found live ammunition at the intersection of Sheridan and Touhy.
Investigators also recovered a gun on the 7300 block of North Sheridan Road, near Chase and Sheridan.
The gun was found lying in some bushes, said police.
A witness said the shots possibly came from an older model green minivan. The tipster said the van frequents Touhy Park, 7348 North Paulina Street.
At the time of this report, the shooter or shooters were still on the run.
"At the time of this report, the shooter or shooters were still on the run"..I'd be curious to know just how many of these ghetto thugs are caught?
ReplyDeleteI hate Rogers Park! Not as much as I hate Uptown, but I hate it with a passion. But not as much as I hate the South Side.
ReplyDeleteRogers Park has REALLY changed. In the 90s, I used to spend time there with my friends, and it was a great neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteTim, despite what happen by the Museum of Science and Industry earlier this week; I tend to feel more safer spending time in Hyde Park than I do in Rogers Park!
ReplyDeleteSkokie I was born and raised in the Hyde Park/Kenwood area, just steps away from Obama's house. I used to spend a lot of time at Promontory Point.
ReplyDeleteThe area surrounding the Museum of Science and Industry is typically pretty safe.
Tim, I grew up there as well, and particularly East Hyde Park leaning towards where 'The Point' is located, is pretty safe... normally! Much safer than the park/lakefront located by Touhy and Sheridan in Rogers Park, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteRogers park is still a great place, I live right next to the park where the shooting took place, while it worries me I have no intentions of moving.
ReplyDeleteA few wannabe thugs are not going to scare me
"Rogers park is still a great place"
ReplyDeleteA bit of an overstatement right there, Paul!
The fake wannabe thugs are the least of my worries in that area. I just don't like all the drug addicts, and drunks that be in Rogers Park. Always loitering by Loyola Red Line, parks, bus stop benches, and anywhere on Howard and Morse ave. Disgusting! I can't even light up a smoke in peace over there without having urine and whisky smelling dirt balls coming up to me asking me for one.
CPD are also rather annoying the way they go up and down Sheridan road with the sirens and lights compulsively when there's nothing happening. I never seen the police do this in no other area except Rogers Park. I have/had plenty of friends that go/went to Loyola and they tell me all the time that doesn't make them feel safe. Just annoys the f*ck out of them!
I hate Rogers Park! Second worst neighborhood on the North Side!
it wasnt a drive by they were on foot i was there seen it all
ReplyDeleteThe mid 1960s' Juneway Terrace public housing gave birth to Rogers Park's woes. :(
ReplyDeleteI have to say.. Slightly north (touhy, howard, jarvis area) is a little sketchier, but I have nothing but fabulous things to say about where we live on Ashland between Lunt and Morse.
ReplyDeleteMorse, while it can attract a few crazies (this is... a city, right?), is becoming pretty vibrant, the market there is FANTASTIC.. there's a great coffee shop, fantastic deep dish, a theatre, a great little farmers market (with produce, meat, flowers, baked goods, tea, chocolate, bike valet, etc...) that we went to just this morning.
I ride the Morse red line almost everyday and have never seen/experienced anything out of the ordinary. I'm 5'1", white as can be, but if you offer up a smile, almost everyone I've passed in RP is willing to smile back.
So.. before everyone writes off Rogers Park as one of the worst places in the city, have a little patience and take a second look.
Anya, nobody is writing "off Rogers Park as one of the worst places in the city." Trust me, I'd rather put up with Rogers Park any day before Englewood, Humboldt Park, Roseland, etc.! But for North Side standards, it is definitely considered SHADY and getting even worst by the year! As you go into the southeast tip of the West Ridge section on most streets it gets a tad bit better, I must admit.
ReplyDeleteI live in Edgewater, and it's not all holy here SOME of the time either. But still nowhere on the scale of sketchiness compared to Uptown (the absolute WORST) and your beloved, but dicey Rogers Park!
if you people only kew how you sounded. This place does not belong only to you and all things that you don't agree with should cease to exist. Crime has and always will be here, it's money. nobody is thinking about you white people, at least i'm not. i don't care for you, your fake smiles that look frindly, like a wolf but all the time when you get closer, it is a frown, a plan to attack. you are the animals, thugs, gangbangers, drug addicts. check your own history, check the news.
ReplyDeleteEdgewater was the favorite territory of a serial rapist who was finally caught maybe last year? I think RP is generally a nice neighborhood, but you must be careful of the blocks you traverse. If they look hinky and feel hinky, they probably are and should be avoided. If you live here long enough you find out what blocks are the worst—Juneway Terrace is one of them. As for the shooting at the Shell station, I've read a lot about it, but no one seems to know who was shot or what happened to him, let alone who shot him. My neighbor heard the shots but I did not. My windows don't face that direction. I did hear events related to the shooting in the park at Tuohy and Sheridan several weeks ago because a woman in my building totally freaked out in fear for her husband's life. Seems to me the violence is becoming more overt over the ten years I've lived here. But really, I lived in Brooklyn, NY when it was violent and Mafia controlled. At least one knew one was safe in a Mafia neighborhood, unless one was on some kind of hit list. Then...well...
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