Crime & Safety
Creepiest IRS Impersonator Ever and Victoria's Secret Fight
A look at weird crime in the Chicago area.
By Emily Stone and David MacLean
Kitchen sink expresses great relief that idiom is true
Someone broke the window of an Evanston home and stole a box-style television, stove with oven and older model white fridge.
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Victoria's Secret fight much less sexy than imagined
Four female subjects started a verbal altercation with an employee of a Victoria’s Secret in Skokie. When asked to leave, one of the subjects spit on the employee three times and then threw a pile of sweatpants at her. They then fled the scene.
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Santa arrives early, gets drunk
An employee of a Glenview business reported that a man passed out near the fireplace. He was taken to the hospital due to his level of intoxication.
Someone painted a large shark face with water above it and a person on a surfboard above the water on the side wall of a business in Glenview. The individual also used black paint to write "life is good" and "KIKI" next to the shark face, police said. The total painted area measures about 8 feet high and 10 feet wide
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