Thieves hit Streeterville 7-Eleven

Written By Chicago News Report on Thursday, October 20, 2011 | 10/20/2011 05:28:00 AM

Police are looking for two offenders who went “shopping” at a Streeterville neighborhood convenience store early Thursday morning.

Between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., two men entered the 7-Eleven at 201 East Ohio Street, near Ohio and North St. Clair Streets.

An initial police dispatch report indicated the men stole cigarettes and “wrecked the place”.

The shoplifters were described as two male blacks.

One offender is approximately 6-feet-tall, has facial hair or a beard, and was wearing a tan jacket.

The second suspect is about 5’6” and was sporting a blue puffy coat.

A responding officer confirmed the men stole cigarettes, but the officer did not mention any property damage.

No arrests were made. Police are investigating.

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

October 20, 2011 at 10:16 AM

Anonymous said...

to 1016 am - unfortunately, there are less & less areas in the city that are truly safe.

Northside neighborhoods that are in the vicinity of the red line are getting terrorized right now by south side ghetto bangers who realize it's better to be thieves up there bc 1) the people up there have better stuff, and 2) they are less likely to happen upon a rival banger that will cap their ass bc they are wearing the wrong color or made the wrond hand signal.

I live very close to this 7-11 (I'm on McClurg by Grand). In the past three years, two buildings called The Streeter I & II opened up, and are subsidized housing, meaning 20% section 8. Guess what happened? Besides virtually all the cars that parks regularly in the Streeter garages being broken into & vandalized, besides the fact that the Streeters had to stop nearly all amenities bc the Section 8 people just stole everything, besides the fact that businesses like that & the other 7-11, Un-Cork It liquor store, Fox & Obel grocery store (basically, any storefront in walking distance that is not housed entirely in a luxury high rise) are constantly getting windows broken & ransacked, there has been a major uptick in violent crime here.

Now, the Peshtigo is going in, with 20% Section 8, one block east of there, and Golub is about to break ground on a new building directly across McClurg from the Streeters that will also be 20% section 8. So this nice, relatively safe, beautiful neighborhood built by & for people like me (who make a lot of money, want to live in luxury, and pay through the nose in terms of property prices, taxes & condo dues) now have to deal with lowlife welfare thugs who don't work & simply want to take, take, take.

My wife & I are actively pursuing job opportunities out of state because, well, we're sick of this crap. If I wanted to live with poor people, I would just move to the south or west sides of town. In the meantime, I just make sure to have very good insurance with a low dedecutible on my car because, even though I park in secured underground parking in my condo building that has no welfare people in it, there has been a rash of property crimes against vehicles in my garage, too.

Oh, also, my wife is friends with the manager of those buildings, who has told us how on literally every occasion that a Section 8 tenant moves out, they steal everything that came with the unit - all the appliances (including refridgerators & diswashers), all the build in cabintery, even the plumbing from under the sink, and in more than one case, the front door.

October 20, 2011 at 10:42 AM

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