Maria Aguilar said Thursday this is the seventh time she's been robbed at gunpoint while working as a street vendor in Little Village. She said she's scared to return if there aren't more police in the area.
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Aguilar said four men armed with semi-automatic rifles pulled in a white four-door sedan, held a gun to her head and demanded her belongings.
Chicago police said the incident happened just before 6:30 a.m. on West 26th Street and St. Louis Avenue.
Aguilar said she was serving a customer at the time, who was also robbed.
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Members of the Little Village Community Council are now calling on more police officers to patrol the neighborhood between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m.
The group held a news conference and then went inside the 10th District Headquarters, hoping to meet with the commander.
Aguilar said the thieves got away with only $75. No arrests have been made.
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