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Approximate reconstructionCBS Chicago — reconstructed from reporting that summarized the UChicago Security Alert; underlying alert lives at safety-security.uchicago.edu881 chars
Security Alert
The University of Chicago Department of Safety & Security is issuing this Security Alert in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.
At approximately 11:16 p.m. on Monday, March 11, 2024, a University staff member was seated in a parked vehicle on the street at 5640 S. Ellis Avenue when an unknown suspect exited a silver Nissan sport-utility vehicle, approached the staff member with a handgun in hand, and demanded property. The suspect took property from the victim, returned to the silver Nissan SUV, and fled southbound on Ellis Avenue. The victim was not physically injured.
Suspect Description: Unknown male, dressed in dark clothing.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the University of Chicago Police Department at 773-702-8181 or the Chicago Police Department.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Reconstructed from CBS Chicago reporting; the original Security Alert is archived on safety-security.uchicago.edu but the page returns 403 to scraping
5640 S. Ellis Avenue is one block from the campus quadrangles — squarely within UChicago's Clery on-campus geography
Silver Nissan SUV detail enabled a CPD alert to neighboring districts and was repeated across at least three subsequent UChicago alerts in spring 2024
UChicago labels these messages 'Security Alert' rather than 'Crime Alert' or 'Timely Warning,' though they serve the same Clery function
Email-only delivery — UChicago reserves cAlert SMS for active emergencies
Part of a documented spring 2024 cluster of armed robberies on Ellis and Greenwood Avenues that culminated in three students being robbed at gunpoint on April 17, 2024