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The manager of Walgreens, 811 Madison St., was held at gunpoint during an attempted armed robbery on May 6. The cashier told Oak Park police that a man wearing gloves and a face covering walked into the drug store at 11:27 p.m. that night, showed her the black handgun in his pocket and demanded she open the cash register.

When the manager came out to see what happened, the man then pointed the handgun at him and again demanded the cash register be opened. The clerk had difficulty opening the register and the offender got impatient and fled the scene without getting any money.

These items, obtained from the Oak Park Police Department, came from reports through May 3 to May 9 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.