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player ready...A man who robbed a Lakeview bank Thursday afternoon is suspected of robbing a North Center bank Friday, authorities said.
The man, believed to be 25 to 35 years old, robbed the bank at 3335 N. Ashland Ave., said Diana Carbonara, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Chicago office. A Chase Bank branch is at that location.
The man robbed the bank about 4 p.m., handing a teller a note but neither displaying a gun nor implying that he had one, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a Chicago police spokeswoman. The man took cash and fled, Trainor said.
The man also is believed to have robbed a PNC Bank branch at 4201 N. Lincoln Ave. about 2:25 p.m. Friday, according to the FBI’s BanditTracker website.
The man is described as white, about 6-foot-1, and weighing 180 to 210 pounds. He was wearing a plaid, short-sleeved, collared shirt and a dark baseball cap.
Anyone with information on the robber is asked to call the Chicago office of the FBI at 312-421-6700.