Street vendors demand more police patrols after being targeted by robbers on Northwest Side

Chicago police are looking for multiple suspects in a string of armed robberies that happened within minutes of each other on the Northwest Side.

The robbers targeted several street vendors. On Saturday, these vendors and neighbors gathered to demand more police protection. Shared below are the times and locations of the armed robberies: Police believe there are two to five suspects between the ages of 15 and 25. All of them were wearing black ski masks, black joggers, black jeans, black hoodies and white gloves during the robberies. They were also armed with black handguns with extended magazines.

The suspects were traveling in a gray Jeep Cherokee and demanded personal property from their victims, such was wallets, flowers, credit cards, cash, purses, etc., according to officials.In one of the incidents, police say the suspects pistol-whipped a victim, causing head injuries that required medical treatment. In another one of the robberies, the suspects told the victims, "give us your money" and "we know you got money.

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