Category: Police Scanner & Petty Crime

Wednesday, July 15, 12:00 AM 1433: I got a gray Corsica with one male Hispanic; we’re making a street stop a little south on Elston from Division. Dispatcher: On Elston from Division, ten-four. 1361-B: 361-Boy. The car that they were breaking into appeared to be a red Maxima, I mean, I’m sorry, a gray Maxima. […]

Friday, June 12, 10:40 PM Dispatcher: Looks like we’re comin’ back to play on Sunday. Unidentified Caller: Bite your tongue. unidentified caller number two: Who cares? Unidentified Caller number three: Overtime! Overtime! Unidentified Caller number four: Show me the money. 18-D: 18-David. Tell all D sector units to come out to their intersections with their […]

Thursday, April 30, 12:15 AM Dispatcher: OK, we got two gangs getting ready to fight out on the street. You got the Black Gangster Disciples against the Gangster Disciples, and you got an off-duty PO on the scene, no name. Unidentified caller: Which one does he belong to? Dispatcher: Exactly what my partner just asked […]

Saturday, April 4, 11:00 PM Dispatcher: 1122? 1122: 22, squad. Dispatcher: 22– Monroe, apartment 1308. You know what? Don’t do anything 22, just hang on–we’re gonna call CHA and see if they can’t handle their work. 1122: Thank you very much, sir. Dispatcher: I ain’t makin’ no guarantees, we’re just gonna see….22, I tried, but […]

Sunday, March 22, 3:25 AM Dispatcher: Marquette 13. 1013: 13. Dispatcher: 13, would you check an attempted suicide, 36– W. Ogden? The victim is busy on Washington, has on a gray coat, black pants, black shoes. She’s walkin’ in the middle of the street tryin’ to get hit by a car. Says ’cause her husband […]

Wednesday, January 14, 12:05 PM Dispatcher: 2513? 2513: Yeah, how about a little lunch? 69– W. North Avenue. Dispatcher: Go ahead, 13. 2513: Also, can I get a little favor? Dispatcher: What d’ya need? 2513: Notify Streets and Sanitation that there’s about four or five big potholes by a sewer and cars are losin’ hubcaps. […]

Monday, December 29, 10:35 AM Dispatcher: 2513. 2513: You want to make a little notation? Um, in the 1800 block of Nagle or Natchez, if somebody calls about a dog that’s lost, a black rockwilder with no–it’s just got a choker chain on it, I put it in the yard at 18–! (Laughs.) Dispatcher: (Laughs.) […]

Thursday, November 20, 12:15 AM Dispatcher: 1133, 1133? 1133: 1133. Dispatcher: 1133, good morning. I’m gonna start you with this–42– Fillmore in the alley, fire’s requesting an assist, what you’ll do when you get there, I don’t know. And here’s the story–says fire’s requesting the police, got a man in the alley with a rat […]

Saturday, October 18, 5:05 PM Dispatcher: 2545, I need ya to take a ride in the 30 sector for a domestic battery, 3600 North Avenue, going eastbound on North Avenue is a male Hispanic beating his girlfriend. They’re walking eastbound on North Avenue, that’s all I got. 2545: Squad, I just explained this to you, […]

Tuesday, September 30, 12:50 AM Dispatcher: Hey George, how’s it goin’? George: I’m OK, how are you? Dispatcher: Fine, since it’s my last night. Yes! Unidentified caller: You quit? Yes! Dispatcher: Shut up Alex, I know you’d be crying if I left. Alex: Yeah, tears of happiness. Dispatcher: Tears of loneliness. Tuesday, September 30, 12:55 […]

Saturday, August 30, 11:00 PM Unidentified caller: Squad, is anybody hearin’ that Princess Di is dead? Dispatcher: I know, it’s a terrible thing. We just heard about that, it’s terrible. It should’ve been Camilla or Princess Charles. She never hurt anybody. Unidentified caller number two: What are you talking about? Dispatcher: Princess Di was involved […]

Wednesday, July 30, 10:20 AM Dispatcher: 2512, what have we got here? We’ve got, oh man, is this thing long! Oh God, I wish you had a computer. It’s a suspicious person–like, some of these jobs don’t say nothing, this one says too much. 7— Grand, they’re callin’ from Goodwill over there. OK, it’s Ms. […]

Thursday, July 3, 10:05 AM Dispatcher: Anybody out there with an opening device for 6– W. Armitage? A handicapped person locked herself out of the car and there’s a puppy inside. It’s a gray Jeep Cherokee. Unidentified Caller: Break the window! Dispatcher: No volunteers? OK. Wednesday, July 9, 3:50 PM Dispatcher: Attention to units out […]

Friday, June 13, 11:15 PM– Saturday, June 14, 12:15 AM Dispatcher: Disturbances, 19– Kedzie, 28– Wilcox, 9– N. Karlov, 31– Flournoy, that’s at the courthouse, at the courthouse. Person with a gun, 14– Kostner. You got a person with a gun at that location–men with guns shootin’, fightin’ in the street, no complainant, no nothin’, […]

Monday, May 5, 10:55 PM 1040: Right now we just got a large, unruly crowd and there’s bodies everywhere. But as of this time we’re getting a little help, things are calmin’ down, we’re getting the crowds back. We’re just tryin’ to figure out how many we actually have shot, it looks like two possible […]