2 men attacked blocks apart on Chicago’s Near West Side, police say

Two men were attacked with sharp objects an hour apart early Monday on Chicago’s Near West Side, Chicago police said.

In the first incident at 1 a.m. Monday, a 40-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk in the 1400 block of South Canal Street, alongside a BNSF and Metra railroad yard, when a man came up on a bicycle, police said.

The victim was hit several times with an unknown object, and the man on the bicycle took his property, police said…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS