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Chicago police are looking for a man who tried to kidnap a 9-year-old girl in the West Rogers Park neighborhood Wednesday morning.
A woman and the girl were walking in the 6600 block of North Damen Avenue about 9:55 a.m. when the man approached them, “grabbed the victim and started running with her,” according to a police media notification.
The girl broke free in the 6600 block of North Ridge Boulevard and the attacker continued running south on Ridge, police said. The girl wasn’t physically injured.
The man was described as Black, about 5-foot-9, 160 pounds with short dreadlocks, wearing glasses, a white shirt, gray pants, white gym shoes and a camouflage baseball hat, police said.
Area 3 detectives are investigating.