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Groups of robbers have stolen purses from at least six Chicago stores in the past month

Published  November 14, 2021 8:04pm CST
River North
FOX 32 Chicago

CHICAGO - As a robbery method, it has worked again and again.

You get a group of guys together. You all run into a fancy Chicago store. You grab as many purses as you can and you run out as the stunned staff watches. In all, the robberies take seconds.

Then, you jump into a stolen car and get away.

Chicago police said that on at least six occasions in the past month or so, robbers have struck stores in the city's priciest neighborhoods:

Chicago police looking for people who grabbed purses inside Mag Mile store and ran out

This robbery happened on October 11th at a store on Michigan Avenue near Chicago.