Chicago police are investigating at least eight armed robberies that occurred late Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Police said detectives haven’t yet established a pattern or connection between the robberies, most of which happened on the city’s Northwest Side. At least three people were injured in the robberies and two involved delivery drivers. No suspects are in custody.The first robbery happened at about 8:02 p.m. in Wicker Park.
About an hour later, three men exited a vehicle and took a phone from a 22-year-old woman at gunpoint in the 800 block of North Leavitt Street in Ukrainian Village. Police said the woman was hit in the head with a handgun, but refused EMS. The sixth robbery happened at about 2:30 a.m. in Bucktown. Three men driving a black sedan took a 40-year-old woman’s backpack, phone and wallet at gunpoint in the 1800 block of West Fullerton Avenue. The woman was transported to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition with a head injury, police said.
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