{"id":846339,"date":"2026-06-05T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/846339\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:48:25","slug":"chicago-man-charged-in-violent-robbery-near-wrigley-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/846339\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged in violent robbery near Wrigley Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1c7f7218-3ae1-4fff-9b1d-6d6c9d86c2cb.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Dennis Laird | Chicago police <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago<\/a> man has been charged in connection with a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">violent robberies<\/a> dating back to mid-April.<\/p>\n<p>   Chicago robbery charges <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dennis Laird, 32, was arrested Thursday near 93rd Street and Stony Island Avenue in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/calumet-heights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Calumet Heights<\/a> neighborhood, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said Laird robbed and beat up a 20-year-old man on April 22 in the 3500 block of North Clark Street, a block away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/wrigleyville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wrigley Field<\/a>. Less than a month later, on May 8, Laird allegedly participated in restraining and robbing a 30-year-old in the 400 block of North Clark Street in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/river-north\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">River North<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Laird was charged with armed robbery with a dangerous weapon, robbery, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery in a public place.<\/p>\n<p> Rap sheet <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Laird has been arrested four times in Chicago since 2014, including on charges of first-degree murder and resisting\/obstructing peace officers.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Laird has a detention hearing scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/river-north\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">River North<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Dennis Laird | Chicago police CHICAGO &#8211; A Chicago man has been charged in connection with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":846340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,29230,68],"class_list":["post-846339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-river-north","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116698056266017941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846339","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=846339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}