Bank robbers dress as security, make off with about $100,000 on Near West Side
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Customers and employees at a Near West Side bank were forced to the floor during a robbery Tuesday afternoon.
As CBS 2's Meredith Barack reported, police and the FBI were investigating after the thieves held up the Chase Bank at 1225 S. Ashland Ave. just south of Roosevelt Road. Per police radio traffic, they got away with a lot of money – to the tune of about $100,000.
Police radio also reported the robber or robbers were wearing some type of security guard uniform when they took the money.
"Security uniform - the actual security guard was punching in the code to get in the backroom, and that's when they bum rushed her and put everybody on the floor and got to that back vault," an officer was heard saying over the scanner.
Detectives were on scene all afternoon interviewing witnesses, looking at evidence, and figuring out how the robbers got the money.
Chase Bank said all customers and employees who were inside the bank at the time were OK afterward.
There was no work on whether a gun was involved.