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The officer fired his weapon about 10:40 p.m. after witnessing the apparent armed robbery in the 3800 block of North Kenmore Avenue, according to preliminary information from Chicago Police. No injuries were reported.
A Subway restaurant was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday morning in northwest suburban Mount Prospect.
The robberies were reported about 3:10 a.m. on April 23 in the 2300 block of North Sawyer and about 12:13 a.m. on April 27 in the 2600 block of North Sawyer, police said.
According to an alert from Area South detectives, a man walked into a restaurant in the 10100 block of South Western about 6:30 p.m. on April 13 and robbed the business while displaying a black semi-automatic handgun.
Chicago Police have released surveillance images of a suspect involved in an armed robbery at a Morgan Park restaurant earlier this month.
A Pullman man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday after he admitted he robbed an off-duty Cook County Sheriff's sergeant who ended up shooting one of his accomplices during the crime.
The man entered Oswego Food Mart, 100 Light Road in Oswego, at 1:29 p.m., pointed a gun at employees and took cash, according to a statement from the Kendall County sheriff's office.
A man already on parole, and wanted for armed robbery and carjacking, was arrested after holding up a north suburban gas station with a knife last weekend, according to police.
A Family Dollar store in Waukegan has been robbed at gunpoint twice in two days, police said.
Chicago Police have released surveillance images of a man they say robbed a woman inside her garage earlier this month in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
Two suspects held up the Marathon station at 20235 N. Rand Rd. about 11:25 p.m. March 22, according to a statement from the Lake County sheriff's office. After taking $300 in cash, they ran south toward Lake Cook Road.
Henry Morales, 28, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault, home invasion and armed robbery, according to a statement from the DuPage County sheriff's office.
Two males held up the Marathon Gas Station at 20235 N. Rand Rd. about 11:25 p.m., according to a statement from Lake County sheriff's office.
A North Side man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for stabbing his West Ridge neighborhood roommates at least 20 times each, lighting their apartment on fire and then using their credit cards to fly to Las Vegas in 2012.
Chicago police officials vented their frustration at what they see as too-lenient sentencing laws for gun crimes, after a convicted felon on parole was charged with shooting an off-duty police officer.
Tinley Park police were asking for the public's help in finding the four men who robbed a Taco Bell employee who was carrying the store's deposit bag on Thursday.
Members of a Chicago animal rescue group were left heartbroken, after an abused dog was stolen during an armed robbery last weekend, and later found dead.
Police are warning CTA riders of a series of armed robberies in the past two weeks in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Neighbors in River North and the Near North Side are on edge after a pair of robberies at gunpoint.
Nvaun Lewis, 21, of Hammond; and John F Johnson, 29, of Gary, both face two counts of attempted armed robbery and two counts of armed robbery, according to Gary police. Lewis has also been charged with four counts of armed robbery and aggravated battery, and two counts of battery by means of a deadly weapon.
Chicago Police Interim Supt. John Escalante was the first police officer to respond to an armed robbery Thursday evening at a beauty supply store in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
The wrongful prosecution of a man who spent two years in jail awaiting trial for an armed robbery he didn't commit has cost the city $1 million.
The two, ages 15 and 16, robbed a convenience store in the 700 lock of Walnut Avenue around 7:50 p.m. on Jan. 25, according to a statement from Elgin police.
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect involved in an armed robbery at a restaurant last month in Gary, Indiana.
Glendale Heights Police are searching for two men who robbed a gas station Sunday evening.
