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SURVEILLANCE VIDEO: A coffee shop worker near Pittsburgh fights off a robber with a coffee pot. A suspect is now in custody. A robber pulls up to a drive-thru, and crawls from the car into the window. The coffee shop worker and wife of the owner hits the robber in the face with a heavy [...]

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View Larger Map Armed Robbery at Burger King on Elmhurst south of Dempster in Des Plaines. Des Plaines Police Department notified area police departments just before 1:00 a.m. CST Sunday of an armed robbery that ‘just occurred’ at the Des Plaines Burger King, Elmhurst and Dempster. The offender is described as a male/black, 5’7″ large [...]

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Schaumburg police responded about 5:50 p.m. Monday to a bank robbery at Parkway Bank, 1600 North Roselle Road. The offender was described as a male/white, 6’1″ thin build, wearing a blue bandana over his face and Black City brand blue jeans. The offender was last seen fleeing the scene on foot.

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Wheeling police responded to an armed robbery that occurred at the Target parking lot, 1400 Lake Cook Road, 1:00 p.m. Sunday. The offender robbed a victim of U.S. cash and an Apple iPod. The offender was described as a male/Hispanic, height not defined/250 lbs, 35 years-old, bald with a goatee. The offender had a tear [...]

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Buffalo Grove police responded to an armed robbery at the Optique Eye Q, 722 South Buffalo Grove about 8:00 a.m. Wednesday. The robbers are described as two to three male/Hispanics. One offender described as a male/Hispanic in his 20′s wearing a black zipper-up hoodie with a baseball cap. A victim at the store was pushed [...]

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View Park Ridge Crime in a larger map Park Ridge police responded about 3:15 p.m. Friday to a report of a bank robbery at the TCF Bank at 1 W. Devon Avenue. The offender was described as a male/white, 5’8″ to 6′ tall in his early 50′s. He is also described as unshaven, and wearing [...]

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Police investigating an armed robbery and shooting at T-Mobile on Jefferson. Photo courtesy Todd Sherman/YouTube.com/7089540230. Joliet police responded to a report about 9:00 p.m. Monday of an armed robbery at the T-Mobile in the 2500 block of West Jefferson, Joliet with an employee shot. An employee in his 20′s suffered minor injuries from a gunshot. [...]

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Palatine police are searching for an armed robbery suspect that robbed the Subway at 1179 Dundee Road at about 7:35 p.m. Thursday. Suspect is a male/unknown, described as 6′ tall wearing a black jacket, black gloves, black ski mask with only the eyes showing. Unknown pants color. Suspect is estimated to be in his 40′s. [...]

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View Chicagoland Crime Report Front Page B 2009 — Arlingtoncardinal.com in a larger map The Bridgeview Bank, 1175 Corporate Woods Parkway in Vernon Hills, was robbed takeover style about 5:05 p.m. Thursday by three male offenders. The three bank robbers struck a bank employee and locked others in the vault. Takover robberies involve commanding attention [...]

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Palatine Police Department investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 9:25 a.m. Saturday at the Jewel/Osco, 423 East Dundee Road. The armed robber held up the TCF National Bank branch inside the Jewel//Osco location. The offender is described as a male/black, 6′ tall, wearing a black coat, black pants and a black baseball cap. [...]

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Wheeling Police Department responded to report of an armed robbery at the Liquor Island Store, 1750 West Hintz Road in Wheeling just before 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. The offender is suspected to be the same offender that robbed the liquor store on November 10, 2009. The suspect was armed with a knife and was wearing a [...]

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Buffalo Grove police searching for an armed robbery suspect that robbed the Subway just before 7:00 p.m. in the 800 block of South Buffalo Grove Road. The suspect is described as a male/white, 5’9″/250 lbs, bald with a beard and mustache or goatee, wearing a gray hoodie blue jeans beard mustache. The offender displayed a [...]

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