(Above) Google Street View of area where robbery occurred last month. (Click on image to view larger version.)

February 3, 2016 – A 22-year-old man says he was robbed mid-morning on a Wednesday on the Dearborn Street Bridge.

At 10:45 a.m. on January 6, the man, Asian but otherwise unidentified by Chicago police, was walking south on the west side of the bridge, near Westin Chicago River North, when a man with a handkerchief around his face and one hand in his pocket came up behind him. He put his left arm around the victim’s neck and said, “Give me your wallet or I’ll cut you.”

The man gave the robber his wallet, with four credit/debit cards and a Georgia driver’s license inside, all worth about $20. The robber then demanded the PINs for the credit cards – which the victim provided – before fleeing north on Dearborn.

The victim reported the theft to police and to his credit card issuers but not before the robber tried to use one the man’s Chase cards.

A police camera on the bridge recorded the incident but, says CPD, not enough physical characteristics or detail of the suspect to continue their investigation. The robber is described as a black male, 25 to 28 years old, five-feet-eight-inches to five-feet-ten-inches tall. He was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and baggie pants.