"I Feel Like Somebody Is Watching Me"

Over the summer there were a considerable amount muggings that occured in the second richest neighborhood of Chicago. It made a big splash because the muggings occured in Lincoln Park.

I have mapped out where the actual muggins took place with information with BLACK markers. The RED markers represent what I consider popular hangouts for DePaul students and inhabitants of Lincoln Park and Chicago. The box indicates the concentration of where the muggings are. The line connects the muggings that occured only minutes within each other.

Police have linked the first five muggings, but there were two other muggings in Lakeview where the cases seem very similar, but it is not certain if they are related.

The victim of the North Cleveland Ave identified an attacker in a line-up, but the suspect was released due to lack of evidence. All the victims were men who were walking alone at night and asked for their wallets and then beaten. Two of the victims were hospitalized.

This story hits close to home because we are DePaul University students who party and walk back to our homes late at night sometimes at night. We "think" were safe because we are in Lincoln Park, but this shows you can get mugged in any part of Chicago.