LINCOLN PARK — A teenage girl escaped from a man who was trying to sexually assault her in an alley earlier this month, police said.
The incident happened Aug. 16 around 11:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of North Mohawk Street, according to Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.
The 17-year-old girl told officers she was walking home from the DePaul University library on Armitage Avenue when a man came behind her at Mohawk Street, pushed her into an alley, knocked her down and then tried to sexually assault her, Estrada said.
The girl was able to fight the man off and run away, according to police.
She was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital, where she was treated and released.
She described her attacker as a white man wearing a white T-shirt and black pants.
No one is in custody, and detectives are investigating.
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