Loop

A downtown alderman is, in a way, saying “told ya so” after a teen trend spun out of control Wednesday night, until police began enforcing the city’s long-established 10 p.m. curfew.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with randomly attacking a woman outside the Chicago Board of Trade building, making him the latest defendant linked to a growing number of so-called “Loop Puncher” incidents in the downtown area.

Two suburban men were surrounded, threatened, and robbed inside a Millennium Park parking garage, and four men now face charges, although prosecutors say three more robbers escaped and remain unidentified.

A shoplifter shot a convenience store clerk in the Loop on Friday night, leaving the victim critically injured, Chicago police said.

A 36-year-old man with a history of unprovoked attacks on women in Chicago’s downtown neighborhoods is facing hate crime and battery charges after prosecutors said he attacked three women within blocks of each other on a single evening last week.

A 20-year-old man was shot during an apparent robbery attempt in the Loop on Saturday evening.

Another man has joined the growing list of so-called “Loop puncher” defendants, men accused of randomly attacking people, usually women, in the downtown area. His name is Samuel Z. Jackson, and officials say he is a repeat offender who was on parole for robbery when he struck again.

Chicago police have released surveillance images of the person they believe to be responsible for shooting a 14-year-old boy in the Loop earlier this month.

Long-time ABC7 reporter Leah Hope on Monday night spoke out for the first time since she was violently attacked by a would-be carjacker in the Loop six weeks ago.

A 14-year-old boy was shot Monday night after a gathering of teenagers turned violent in the Loop.

A 7-time convicted felon violently attacked a television news reporter as she sat in her SUV in the Loop and continued the assault until passers-by teamed up to pull him off the victim, prosecutors said.