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Chicago police search for armed robber who struck on CTA Blue Line on West Side

Chicago police on Sunday were asking for help in finding a man they said robbed someone at gunpoint on the Blue Line on Chicago's West Side.

Police said around 8 a.m. on Halloween Friday, Oct. 31, the man came up to another man on the platform for the Kedzie-Homan stop on the Chicago Transit Authority train line in the median of the Eisenhower Expressway. The man pulled out a gun and demanded the victim's property, police said.

Police described the robber as a Black male between the ages of 25 and 30, standing 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 175 to 180 pounds. He had a beard, and was last seen wearing a black short-sleeved shirt with white stripes on the front of the shirt and sleeves, gray jeans with rips on the legs, and white gym shoes, police said.

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Anyone with information was asked to call Chicago police Mass Transit Detectives at 312-745-4447, or submit an anonymous tip to CPDTIP.com and use reference #JJ-473214.

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