NOBLE SQUARE — A 30-year-old man who was walking to work early Monday in Noble Square told police that he was robbed by two men who came out of a car, put a gun in his face and demanded his wallet and phone.
The armed robbery occurred around 4:30 a.m. Monday in the 1400 block of West Blackhawk Street, according to the victim's girlfriend, who described her boyfriend as being okay but "shaken up" by the incident.
The victim filed a report at the Shakespeare District police station, Officer Nicole Amezaga, a Chicago Police spokeswoman, said Tuesday.
The man, a diesel mechanic who works at various auto shops in the suburbs, was walking to his parked car early Monday past the Pulaski park dog park — a small patch of a park that faces the Kennedy Expressway to the east — when two men came out of a black SUV and demanded his possessions.
The victim described the thieves as young; one of the two men had dreadlocks. After taking the man's wallet, which had some cash in it, and his iPhone 6s phone, the men drove away.
The victim's girlfriend, who posted about the incident on a neighborhood Facebook page on behalf of her boyfriend, said, "Even though it's a nice neighborhood, you have to be alert at all times. No one is safe unfortunately."
