ROGERS PARK — Loyola police said in two incidents just an hour apart on the same night, two Loyola students and a Rogers Park resident were approached by several men who knocked them down and hit them.
In a safety alert from the university, police said around 1:30 a.m. Feb. 25, two students were walking in the 1200 block of West Arthur Avenue when a group of five to seven men approached before pushing them to the ground and striking them.
The men fled south on Lakewood Avenue, but did not take anything.
The students didn't require medical treatment, police said.
Then, at 2:54 a.m., a campus officer encountered a man in the 1300 block of West Albion Avenue who told the officer he, too, had been knocked down and hit by about five to six men before they ran off.
That victim was not a Loyola student, police said, but the robbers fled with the man's glasses and wallet.
Descriptions for the men were "limited," Loyola Police said in the alert.
Those with information should call Loyola Campus Safety at 773-508-6039, or the Chicago Police Department 312-744-8263.
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