CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department sent out a community alert for residents in the 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 24th and 25th Districts of a pattern of armed robberies that have happened overnight and in the early morning hours across December.

Police said in each incident, the victims are on foot or seated in a vehicle on the street when a vehicle occupied by 2-4 offenders pull up to the victims’ location. Multiple offenders then exit the vehicle and — while armed with handguns — demand the victims personal belongings.

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