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Ald. Deb Mell’s office burglarized on NW Side

Mar 20, 2017 | WLSAM Staff

(CHICAGO) Ald. Deb Mell’s 33rd Ward office in the Albany Park neighborhood was burglarized early Monday on the Northwest Side, police said.

About 3:25 a.m., the male suspect broke in through a glass pane front door at the ward office at 3001 W. Irving Park Rd., authorities said.

The thief threw a chunk of concrete to shatter the glass.

“It doesn’t feel great, but it happens,” Mell told the Chicago Sun-Times at her office later Monday.

A man who lives nearby and was cleaning the office early Monday startled the thief, who ran off with a computer tablet, Mell said. The tablet is left in the front window of the office to display Bus Tracker information for the nearby No. 80 bus stop, Mell said.

No one was in custody early Monday as Area North detectives investigated.

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Off-duty Chicago police sergeant fires shots at vehicle

Jan 16, 2017 | WLSAM Staff

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say an off-duty Chicago police sergeant fired shots at a vehicle after a person inside showed a gun during a verbal confrontation on the city’s northwest side.

Police say the sergeant was walking with acquaintances Sunday night in the Albany Park neighborhood when a group of people in a vehicle instigated a verbal confrontation. Witnesses say someone in the car showed a gun and police say the sergeant fired at the vehicle as it sped away.

Police say a person in the vehicle may have been wounded, since a male soon afterward went to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the shoulder.

Police are working to confirm whether the wounded person was shot by the sergeant. The sergeant will be on administrative duties during the shooting investigation.

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