Armed group sought in South Chicago robberies
Chicago police said three people would approach the victims, display handguns, and take their belongings before fleeing either on foot or in a dark-in-color four-door sedan.
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Chicago police said three people would approach the victims, display handguns, and take their belongings before fleeing either on foot or in a dark-in-color four-door sedan.
In each incident, one to three robbers have approached the victims and demanded their property at gunpoint, police said.
Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) issued a public safety alert after two armed men robbed the McDonald's located in the 4800 block of North Lincoln Avenue.
The judge said the child's mother is the mastermind in what he called a kidnapping scheme that involved guns, death threats, and even leveraging her child's location for her own release.
Chicago police said the dating app robberies happened during the overnight hours on July 19, 23, and 24.
The robberies on July 19, 23, and 24, in the 4800 block of South Drexel Boulevard in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood.
Police said the teen was identified as a suspect who took a vehicle and personal belongings from the victim in Edgewater on June 10.
Chicago police said a French bulldog was stolen at gunpoint in a violent armed robbery on the city's South Side Tuesday.
They suspects allegedly took the passenger's wallet, money, and hit him in the face while on the escalator at the CTA Red Line-Clybourn Station on July 12.
A Chicago man has been charged with robbing two women at gunpoint and shooting one of them earlier this week in the Lakeview neighborhood.
It is believed that a soccer game was going on at the time of the shooting, but it's unclear if the game had anything to do with the shooting.
Three juveniles were facing charges Sunday night in an armed robbery that led to a wild chase from the west Chicago suburb of Cicero to Chicago's West Side.
Chicago police said the victim, a 24-year-old woman, was outside walking when a silver SUV approached her.
Six people were in custody Friday evening, after a courier was robbed of $70,000 at a gas station in Cicero, Illinois, and the suspects led police on a car chase along the Eisenhower Expressway.
The 18-year-old, who police said was a juvenile at the time, was arrested on Thursday morning in Bridgeview by members of the Area One Vehicular Hijacking Team.
Chicago police said two women, 29 and 37, were with a known man inside a residence, who pulled out a firearm and demanded their belongings.
Chicago police say a 29-year-old woman was shot and killed after a man she knew tried to rob her inside a home just after midnight near 72nd and Jeffery.
The incident happened on June 21 around 1:40 a.m. in the 0–100 block of West 69th Street.
Malik Washington, 26, of Calument City, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a federal robbery charge.
Carl Sturdivant, 44, was arrested by Chicago police on Thursday in the 2700 block of South California Avenue.
The boys, 13, 16, and 17 years of age, were charged with multiple felonies, including one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon and three counts of armed robbery with a firearm.
This follows the four previously reported robberies that happened since June 5.
A postal worker was robbed at gunpoint in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, police and USPS officials said.
A man has been charged in an armed robbery that was captured on video outside a couple's home in Glenview.
The robberies happened on Thursday during the afternoon hours in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
