A Dunkin Donuts on the 1900 block of N. Clybourn was held up by armed robbers twice in one week. At around 2:30 a.m. on October 14, a man came into the store ordered an ice cream. When the employee, a 51-year-old man, turned around to get into the freezer, the suspect jumped over the counter, took out a handgun, and told the employee to lie on the ground and “go to sleep.” The man tried to open the cash register but was unsuccessful. He ordered the employee back on his feet to open drawer. The employee complied, and the man took $800 from the register and fled. Police toured the area but did not find the suspect. An employee told police that, at around 10:20 p.m. on October 17, after making an order, a man took out a handgun and told the employee to give him the money from the drawer. He then reached over the counter and began taking cash from the register. “Take all the money,” the man’s accomplice said, before both fled.

On the evening of October 17, a woman sitting at a bar in a hotel on the 900 block of N. Michigan was approached by a man and a woman. The woman struck up a conversation with her as the man walked behind her seat and began going through her purse. He took her wallet, which contained $60 in cash and various ID and bank cards.

A pizza delivery was beaten and robbed on the 1400 block of N. Cleveland on October 18. The man arrived at an address a few blocks up the street at 10:15 p.m. to find that no one was home. When he called the restaurant, another employee said that the address had been changed, with instructions that the driver would have to get out of his car because the customer was handicapped. Upon arriving at the new address and exiting the vehicle, the driver was prompting approached by two men, who proceeded to pistol-whip him in the face and on the head while taking approximately $25 out of his pockets before fleeing. The man went got back in his car and drove to Division Street, where he flagged down a police officer. The man refused medical treatment.

A 62-year-old woman living on the 1200 block of N. Sandburg Terrace told police that she was the victim of online deceptive fraud sometime between September 28 and October 1. The woman said she received an email that she thought was from AOL that requested several pieces of personal information, including her credit card and social security numbers. The woman sent the information, and later found that $15.11 had been charged to her card from a Netflix account. She cancelled the credit card shortly after.

A man who had been out drinking and celebrating his birthday decided to stop at a bank near the 1100 block of N. State before going home in the early morning of October 17. As he approached the bank, a man and a woman walked up to him. The woman asked him for a cigarette, and the man took out a 5-inch switchblade and said “Give me your stuff and information.” As the victim handed over his credit card, the woman remarked “That’s a nice chain you have on,” and slipped the necklace, worth $100, off his neck. The two left him and the man called to cancel his credit card before contacting police.