{"id":409124,"date":"2025-11-27T20:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409124\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:49:12","slug":"police-issue-alert-after-string-of-work-van-thefts-on-chicagos-north-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409124\/","title":{"rendered":"Police issue alert after string of work van thefts on Chicago&#8217;s North Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago police on Thursday issued a community alert about a string of burglaries targeting work vans in several neighborhoods on the city&#8217;s North Side this week.<\/p>\n<p>In each incident, the victims&#8217; unoccupied work van was parked on a street when the burglars used a cutting tool or a saw to cut off the locks, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The burglars then stole tools and put them in a getaway vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The burglaries happened at the following times and locations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8:18 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, in the 2300 block of West Cullom Avenue, North Center.<\/li>\n<li>8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, twice, in the 4500 block of North Seeley Avenue, Lincoln Square.<\/li>\n<li>7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, in the 4000 block of North Clarendon Avenue, Uptown.<\/li>\n<li>8:41 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, in the 2000 block of West Barry Avenue, Bricktown.<\/li>\n<li>8:50 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, in the 1900 block of West Melrose Street, Roscoe Village.<\/li>\n<li>8:52 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, in the 1900 block of West Fletcher Street, Bricktown.<\/li>\n<li>9:22 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, in the 3100 block of North Clifton Avenue, Lakeview.<\/li>\n<li>9:27 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, in the 3700 block of North Racine Avenue, Wrigleyville.<\/li>\n<li>10:50 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, in the 4500 block of North Clarendon Avenue, Uptown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police released a surveillance video of the thieves in action.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rfOlpFR9frY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burglary to Auto | 019th District | November 25- 26, 2025 | Pattern #P25-3-052<\/a> by<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ChicagoPoliceNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Police<\/a> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Belmont Area detectives at 312-744-8263, or submit an anonymous tip at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/TipForm.aspx?ID=727#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CPDTIP.com<\/a> and use reference #P25-3-052.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago police on Thursday issued a community alert about a string of burglaries targeting work vans in several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[35786,960,5386,1818,12353,174285,17008,69869],"class_list":["post-409124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-burglary","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-lakeview","tag-roscoe-village","tag-uptown","tag-wrigleyville"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115623635512979105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}