ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\nLaxmi Ray is the co-owner of Sam’s Chicken & Ribs on Granville near Winthrop, where, in the early morning hours of Jan. 4, a burglar stole the cash register and damaged a computer before racing out of the business.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of sad, angry. Yeah, I’m very sad,” Ray said.<\/p>\n
The offender stole a small amount of cash but caused thousands of dollars’ worth of damage.<\/p>\n
“Very quick. Within, like ,30 seconds, he finished everything,” Ray said.<\/p>\n
The crime was one of a string of burglaries committed, police say, by a suspect seen on CTA surveillance video trying to break open a cash register on a train platform.<\/p>\n
Police say he is wanted for at least seven business break-ins in the past month in Uptown, Edgewater, and West Rogers Park, most within half a block of a CTA Red Line station.<\/p>\n
The first three occurred in the 1100-block of West Argyle, near the Argyle Red Line stop, where CTA cameras captured his face behind a mask.<\/p>\n
At Sam’s Chicken & Ribs, which is also half a block from the Red Line, they have had to replace the register and repair the front door.<\/p>\n
“It’s painful, yeah. Pain for the business, painful for the business,” Ray said.<\/p>\n
The owners say this is the second burglary at their restaurant in about a year, and so, they have ordered a metal security gate for the business.<\/p>\n
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