Police this afternoon issued a community alert after detectives connected three recent robberies in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. In each case, one or two robbers have approached people on the street or in an alley and demanded valuables at gunpoint. The alert did not offer details on the incidents, but CWBChicago has learned additional
The usually sleepy Andersonville neighborhood is at the center of a police robbery alert after three victims were robbed at gunpoint last Thursday. In each case, victims have been approached on the street by two offenders who are armed with a handgun, police said. The first victim was robbed outside of Pauline’s Restaurant, police said.
The gunman who robbed a Boystown Walgreens and a North Center Jewel-Osco within 20 minutes early Sunday is also responsible for robbing two drugs stores in Edgewater the day before, according to an alert issued today by Area North detectives. Without naming specific businesses, the alert warns of a Hispanic male gunman between 25- and
The FBI says a floppy-hatted woman who robbed the TCF Bank branch inside of Boystown’s Jewel-Osco store on August 5 held up another bank Friday in Edgewater. Friday’s robbery targeted the TCF Bank branch inside of the Jewel-Osco store at 5343 N. Broadway around 3:50PM. As she did in Boystown, the woman presented a note
Photo of the TCF robber in action yesterday afternoon. Yep. It was her. A woman who has robbed the TCF Bank inside Boystown’s Jewel-Osco twice in the past year struck on the North Side yesterday afternoon. Now dubbed the “Shady Bandit” by the FBI, the woman held up the TCF Bank inside Andersonville’s Jewel-Osco Thursday.
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