2 women charged with beating, robbing teen on CTA Red Line train
Two women are charged with attacking and robbing a 16-year-old girl on a CTA Red Line in Chatham last week.
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Two women are charged with attacking and robbing a 16-year-old girl on a CTA Red Line in Chatham last week.
The FBI is investigating if the robberies are connected.
A Brinks armored truck was robbed Wednesday morning in south suburban Calumet City.
Mass Transit detectives are looking for three women responsible for robbing a passenger on a CTA Red Line train Friday evening.
The robberies happened in the afternoon and evening hours during the months of March and April.
The method is simliar each time: A group of one to three men wearing dark clothes and ski masks approaches a mail carrier, armed with guns, demanding the US postal keys, which is a kind of master key that unlocks some blocks of mailboxes.
Two teenage boys are facing multiple charges in connection with robberies and carjackings in Logan Square on Thursday.
Two teenage boys are facing multiple charges in connection to a series of robberies and carjackings in the Logan Square neighborhood.
Investigators said at 1:03 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, the men robbed the letter carrier at 748 S. Francisco Ave., near Polk Street, in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.
A man was hit in the face and robbed of his belongings in West Town Wednesday morning.
Police a group of six to eight men would approach victims and demand their vehicles.
Police say multiple armed suspects approached victims on the sidewalk and demanded their property by threatening the use of force.
The suspected robber was later pronounced dead.
The suspected robber was later pronounced dead.
A man is charged after attacking and robbing a CTA employee on the Near West Side this month.
Five days after the most recent incident, many are still uncomfortable at the Cumberland Avenue Mariano's.
A teenage girl is charged after attacking and robbing another teen outside a CTA Blue Line stop earlier this month.
Park Ridge police are looking for a trio of robbers who seem to have a pattern. Twice, shoppers have been targeted leaving the Mariano's grocery store at Cumberland and Higgins.
The victims were able to give police a license plate number, adding there may have been a fourth person in the Jeep who didn't get out.
Police say around 5:15 p.m., the suspect approached a 26-year-old woman at the stop, located in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, took her headphones, and fled the scene.
Mass transit detectives are looking to identify the person who robbed a woman at the CTA Division Blue Line stop Monday.
Chicago police arrested Justin Smith, 40, in the 700 block of West Lake Street around 12:33 p.m. on Saturday.
A 17-year-old boy is arrested and charged with robbing a man while on a CTA train last month.
Chicago police are investigating a spree of armed robberies with four just happening Friday morning. The first four robberies started around 9 p.m. Wednesday and ended right after midnight. Then, another five occurred just before midnight Thursday into Friday morning.
In each case, four men would approach victims on the walkway and rob them of their belongings.
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