A 19-year-old man was stabbed while closing the Chicago Riverwalk on Sunday night, according to a preliminary police report, and the assailant remains on the loose.
The victim was asking people to leave the Riverwalk just before 11 p.m. when a man became combative with him and the situation turned physical on the west side of the State Street Bridge, police said. The offender stabbed the victim in the left bicep during the altercation and then fled, according to police. EMS transported the victim to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.
Police searched the area for the assailant, but came up empty-handed. He was described as Black and wearing a white-and-black striped shirt.
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