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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Fran Spielman

City, Gold Coast merchants should ‘expedite’ installing barriers to keep robbers’ cars off sidewalks, alderperson says

Brian Hopkins Gold Gold Coast Brendan Reilly 42nd Ashlee Rezin Prada Police SunTimes
Chicago Police Department officials investigate the scene at Prada, 30 E. Oak St., after a robbery. Authorities said an officer and a suspect were both wounded in a shootout early Monday. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Even before the latest Gold Coast crash-and-grab robbery, local Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) already had been planning to meet on Monday with other city officials to discuss installing barriers on sections of Michigan Avenue and the nearby retail district.

That meeting proceeded just a few hours after an SUV smashed into the Prada store on Oak Street near State, leading to a shootout in which one police officer was shot and a suspected robber was critically wounded.

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