Burglary crew steals ATM from Wrigleyville business
Surveillance video from outside the business captured one of the suspects using what appeared to be a crowbar before three suspects entered.
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Surveillance video from outside the business captured one of the suspects using what appeared to be a crowbar before three suspects entered.
Police said the group stole merchandise, including clothes and shoes, from inside.
Surveillance video at one business captured the crew wearing headlamps and using sledgehammers to break through the glass at the business before stealing an ATM from inside.
Would-be thieves smashed into a Family Dollar store in Chicago's West Town community Tuesday morning.
Burglars made off with ATMs after breaking into businesses in Chicago's Logan Square and Rogers Park neighborhoods early Monday morning.
Morton Grove police are investigating after a smoke shop was hit by smash and grab burglars overnight.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has released video footage of a smash-and-grab burglary at a GameStop store in the Irving Park neighborhood last month that led to a Chicago police officer firing shots at the suspects.
A memorial for Mark Arceta, 40, now sits on Michigan Avenue after he was hit and killed by a car fleeing a smash-and-grab burglary at a Louis Vuiton store on the Mag Mile on Thursday.
Five watches, valued at a total of $170,500, were taken during the incident, prosecutors say.
A group of thieves carried out a brazen smash-and-grab robbery at the Mag Mile Rolex store in the middle of Friday afternoon.
Smash-and-grab burglars targeted at least 3 GameStop stores in Chicago in just the past week.
Thieves targeted a South Shore sportswear store early Thursday, one of four recent smash-and-grab burglaries in the Chicago area using a Jeep.
Chicago police are investigating a smash-and-grab robbery at a shoe store in South Deering.
The crime just after 6 a.m. at the Foot Locker in the 3300 block of South Martin Luther King Drive in the Douglas neighborhood.
CBS News Chicago learned that the store had been targeted twice in the last two months.
Four thieves smashed into the jewelry store in The Maxwell complex at 1010 S. Canal St., and bused blunt objects to break the glass containers.
The incidents happened within an hour on the Southwest and Northwest Sides.
Police said officers responded to a burglar alarm just before 2 a.m. at the store at State and Monroe.
While there were customers and employees inside the store at the time, no one was harmed.
The jeweler estimated that $300,000 in merchandise was lost.
Chicago police said just after 5:30 a.m., three or four men broke the front glass door of a Prada store at 30 E. Oak St.
Just before 4:30 a.m., three people crashed a red sedan, possibly a Dodge Charger, into the side of the Cash America Jewelry & Loan at 4558 S. Cicero Ave.
More than 40 protective bollards will be set up on the designated stretch of the Mag Mile.
This crash-and-grab burglary is similar to many other recent crimes that are part of a trend in Chicago.
Police aren't officially saying these burglaries are believed to be connected yet, only saying they are investigating.
