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Prosecutors yesterday accused a second man of participating in the group robbery of a downtown Chicago store that resulted in a cashier being stabbed this spring.

Prosecutors say a Chicago man robbed the JW Marriott Hotel one day after the company fired him.

A concealed-carry holder shot himself and another man during an altercation in the Loop on Wednesday evening, Chicago police said.

A freshly-opened Walgreens “concept store” in downtown Chicago offers just two short aisles of merchandise that customers can touch. Everything else must be ordered via kiosk and picked up at the sales counter.

A twice-convicted bank robber and a female accomplice have been convicted of robbing another bank in downtown Chicago, largely because they ditched a winter cap in a trash can at the annual Christkindlmarket while fleeing the scene.

Workers erected a temporary fence around a landmark sculpture in the Chicago federal building’s plaza on Tuesday after someone plastered it with handwritten graffiti.

Federal authorities are trying to track down a group of up to 18 people who broke into a downtown Chicago post office early Monday.