Overview
- Brûlée in Chicago’s South Loop, broken into before dawn Monday, saw three people use sledgehammers to shatter a front window and escape in a silver or gray SUV.
- The thieves grabbed a cash register from the counter, and police reports also described an ATM taken during the break-in.
- Recovered items now include the empty register found along the road and a phone a suspect left behind, which one of them briefly returned to retrieve. Police reported no arrests by Monday evening.
- The restaurant closed Monday to fix damage and planned to reopen Tuesday at 8 a.m., according to the owner.
- The owner estimated about $3,500 in damage and pointed to other recent South Loop break-ins, as Ald. Pat Dowell asked the 1st District to extend a stationary patrol past its 2 a.m. cutoff.