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Maria Aguilar, 50, a street vendor who had been robbed several times, serves customers at 26th Street and Homan Avenue on Dec. 21, 2022.
After a series of armed robberies of street vendors, Little Village residents organize to protect each other Though street vendors are vulnerable to robberies because they are working alone and only with cash, most robberies reported over the years were sporadic. It wasn’t until early December when aldermen of Southwest Side neighborhoods, community leaders and the Chicago Police Department alerted the community to a recent string of armed robberies targeting vendors., leaving them in fear and scaring away their clients.
Chancellor Thomas L. Keon speaks during the Purdue Northwest Roaring Ahead Scholarship Gala on Friday, June 10, 2022 at the Hard Rock Casino in Gary.
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