12-Aug-16 – Pickpockets in Chicago will remember Saturday, July 30, for a long time. Of 87 incidents reported to Chicago police that day, between Adams Street and Chicago Avenue, 32 were pocket-pickings and two were purse snatchings.

The incidents started at one minute after midnight in the 300 block of North Dearborn Street. By noon, there had been six pocket-pickings.

Most of the incidents were at Maggie Daley Park, where the two purse snatchings also happened. One pocket-picking occurred farther west in an area near Harris Theater. Another took place farther south in Grant Park. Between 4 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., 20 pocket-pickings were reported in the 300 block of East Randolph Street.

The day ended with one last pocket picking at the CTA station at State & Lake.