{"id":960913,"date":"2026-07-26T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:40:17","slug":"police-warn-of-group-beating-robbing-people-in-chicagos-south-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960913\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn of group beating, robbing people in Chicago&#8217;s South Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago police on Sunday issued a community alert after two violent robberies in the South Loop area this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In each incident, a group of robbers has surrounded victims before beating and kicking them. The victims&#8217; cellphones and jewelry have been taken by force.<\/p>\n<p>The first incident happened at 7:58 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of South Michigan Avenue, alongside Grant Park. The second happened between 1 a.m. and 1:16 a.m. Sunday just to the south and west in the first block of East Roosevelt Road.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 10 to 16 males have been involved in each robbery, and they appear to range in age from 14 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on these incidents is asked to call Belmont Area detectives at (312) 744-8263, or to or submit an anonymous tip at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/TipForm.aspx?ID=727#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CPDTIP.com<\/a> and use Reference # P26-3-024.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago police on Sunday issued a community alert after two violent robberies in the South Loop area this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,7272,11623],"class_list":["post-960913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-robbery","tag-south-loop"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116987745138164103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}