CHICAGO — A 50-year-old woman was mugged and pushed on the block where Mayor Rahm Emanuel lives on Tuesday, police said.
About 1 p.m., the woman was getting a bag out of her parked car in the 4200 block of North Hermitage Avenue when a man got out of a car, walked up to her and demanded her bag, said Officer Laura Amezaga, a Chicago Police spokeswoman. The man then pushed the woman and took her bag.
The man got into his car, an older-model sedan, and drove north, Amezaga said. At least three other people were inside the car.
The woman refused emergency medical care.
Emanuel's son was injured in a robbery near the family's home on the block in December 2014, and that incident immediately came to mind when the mayor was asked about it Thursday.
"As somebody who has a son who was also robbed, mugged, wherever it happens it concerns me," Emanuel said. "As it relates to public safety, it's not about something around my house, it's about something that happens in our city, and wherever it happens it concerns me."
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