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A man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly beating a woman and taking off with her belongings last month in Lake View East.
Paul Woebel, 47, of Ravenswood, struck the woman with a blunt object, possibly a pipe, as she walked her dog May 14 in the 500 block of West Hawthorne Place, Chicago police said.
He hit the 42-year-old woman in the head and body around 8:30 p.m. and then took her belongings and left, police said. The woman was treated at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Woebel was arrested Monday about a block from the beating, in the 3400 block of North Lake Shore Drive, police said.
Three years after calling a Northwest Side intersection “notoriously unsafe and hazardous,” the Active Transportation Alliance renewed calls Thursday for.
Three years after calling a Northwest Side intersection “notoriously unsafe and hazardous,” the Active Transportation Alliance renewed calls Thursday for improvements where “School of Rock” actor Kevin Clark was fatally struck by a car while biking.
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Three years after calling a Northwest Side intersection “notoriously unsafe and hazardous,” the Active Transportation Alliance renewed calls Thursday for improvements where “School of Rock” actor Kevin Clark was fatally struck by a car while biking.
“We can only hope that we see an immediate response before another tragedy happens,” said Jim Merrell, managing director of advocacy for ATA. “This didn’t have to happen.”
Clark, 32, was riding a bicycle around 1:20 a.m. Wednesday when he was hit by a Hyundai Sonata at Western Avenue and Logan Boulevard, Chicago police said. He died at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.