CHICAGO, IL : CPD investigating West Garfield Park crash-and-grab burglary on Tuesday, 31st October 2023

Two people are in custody after the latest crash-and-grab burglary on Chicago's West Side, this time in West Garfield Park.

In the latest crash and grab burglary, police said thieves used a pickup truck to smash into a clothing store called Tops and Bottoms at about 11:24 p.m. in the 3900-block of Madison Street.

"We definitely know how much they took. They took tens of thousands of dollars of product," said owner Ahmed Kassim.

Kassim spent the last week watching friends' businesses being hit in a similar manner by the same kind of criminal. He requested permission from the city place planters on Madison Avenue to protect his storefront, but didn't hear back in time to prevent becoming a victim himself.

"You want to hit the store, right? You want to damage the store, but you really damaging the people working here," he said. "They have lives. You hit the store and now we're out of service, we're out of commission for I don't know how long."

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