LINCOLN SQUARE — A preferred Lincoln Sq. sports activities bar’s new dwelling was damaged into early Thursday morning, police mentioned.
About 1:25 a.m. Thursday, three individuals “wearing all black” broke the entrance glass door of Wild Goose, 4600 N. Lincoln Ave., police mentioned.
Nobody is in custody, and it’s unclear if something was taken from the enterprise. Detectives are investigating the break-in, police mentioned.
Co-owner Andrew Van Ermen informed Block Membership no staff had been there when the break-in occurred, however he was not accessible for follow-up questions.
Wild Goose relocated in October from North Middle, its dwelling for the previous 35 years, to the Lincoln Sq. location, beforehand Fork restaurant.
Thursday’s break-in comes two days after police issued a neighborhood alert a few housebreaking spree Nov. 10-11 throughout the Irving Park, Portage Park, Norwood Park, Jefferson Park, Union Ridge and Bucktown neighborhoods. Eight companies had been damaged into in a 24-hour interval beginning round 4:20 a.m. Nov. 10, police mentioned.
In these burglaries, two or three males sporting darkish clothes, face masks and gloves broke into the companies by smashing the entrance glass door or aspect window. As soon as inside, the burglars took cash from money registers and ATMs earlier than fleeing in a silver sedan and a dark-colored sedan, police mentioned.
The break-ins talked about in the neighborhood alert are much like a collection of break-ins in September at three Albany Park and Outdated Irving Park companies. In these break-ins, the housebreaking crew consisted of at the very least 4 individuals wearing dark-colored outfits that lined their faces. The 4 suspects had been seen utilizing a dark-colored automotive to flee the scene of the break-ins, enterprise homeowners and police mentioned.
“You couldn’t see a face. It was simply grey hoodies and black pants. They appeared like ninjas,” Marcus Santiago, proprietor of Bia’s Cafe Marianao, mentioned on the time.
This month’s burglaries are the newest focusing on North Aspect companies this 12 months.
There have been a string of break-ins focusing on at the very least 20 liquor and comfort shops and eating places since June 26, police mentioned. These have included burglaries at Logan Sq.’s Lula Cafe and three different Northwest Aspect companies inside a two-hour stretch on June 30.
In July, 4 males broke into Monti’s Cheesesteaks, 4757 N. Talman Ave., throughout the early-morning hours. They had been additionally dressed like “ninjas,” proprietor David Weissner mentioned on the time.
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