Near North

A store employee exchanged gunfire with another man during an armed robbery on Sunday afternoon in River North, police said.

Police have identified an armed robbery pattern in the River North neighborhood, meaning they think a series of recent hold-ups have been committed by the same offenders.

A 29-year-old man became River North’s first shooting victim of the new year on Wednesday morning.

A group of men armed with at least one rifle tried to carjack a woman outside a River North school on Tuesday morning.

A gunman who opened fire on a River North street over the weekend shot the rear window of a passing car, but no injuries were reported. The incident does not bode well for River North, which had as many shooting victims in 2021 as during the two previous years combined.