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Armed robbers hit 5 pedestrians on Chicago's North Side: 'I knew exactly what was going to happen'

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Updated  September 25, 2023 10:26pm CDT
Goose Island
FOX 32 Chicago

5 more pedestrians fall victim to armed robberies Sunday night across Chicago's North Side

Armed robbers held up at least five pedestrians across several Chicago neighborhoods Sunday night.

CHICAGO - Armed robbers held up at least five pedestrians across several Chicago neighborhoods Sunday night.

The latest string of armed robberies were after 11 p.m. last night in the area of Halsted Street and Armitage Avenue. Three incidents involved a group of four males in a white SUV who surrounded their victims, pointed guns and demanded purses, wallets and phones. They robbed two women who were walking alone and a couple who were walking home from a show at the Salt Shed.

"A white SUV was going extremely quickly westbound and they ended up going into the wrong lane and I knew exactly what was going to happen," a victim who was robbed said. "Three guys got out, at least one maybe two of them had guns. I had a purse, they took my purse. They told my boyfriend to get down. They went through his pockets. We complied. We didn't fight. We didn't try to run and then they took off."

The robberies happened at the following times and locations:

  • A 42-year-old woman was robbed around 11 p.m. in the 900 block of West Armitage Avenue in Lincoln Park
  • A 31-year-old man was robbed around 11:15 p.m. in the 1700 block of West Hubbard Street in West Town
  • A 56-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were robbed around 11:20 p.m. in the 600 block of West Armitage Street in Lincoln Park
  • A 27-year-old woman was robbed around 11:40 p.m. in the 1400 block of North Halsted Street in Goose Island

No one was injured in the robberies. There is no one in custody.

Area Three detectives are investigating each incident.

Over the weekend, DePaul University students were targeted, some of them were battered. 

DePaul released a statement in regards to the recent uptick in robberies. It read, in part:

"In the last three weeks, our university community has witnessed an alarming increase in safety incidents on our Lincoln Park and Loop campuses. We want you to know how much we share your concern and will not tolerate these crimes that continue to occur on campus. We are actively pressing the mayor and elected officials for responses to help us in this effort so that we can get immediate support."

School officials say they are getting additional DePaul security officers to have a more visible presence on campus, are working with rideshare companies to actively create options to develop a subsidized rideshare program for students and upgrading overhead lighting in the Sheffield Parking Garage on the Lincoln Park campus.