CHICAGO (WLS) -- An employee at a 7-Eleven in the Loop was stabbed outside the store Monday morning, Chicago police said.
Police said the employee was stabbed with a box cutter outside the store in the first block of West Jackson Boulevard at about 3:22 a.m.
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About 10 minutes earlier, the suspect had attempted to steal items from the store, but was stopped by the employee. Police said the suspect later returned and threw a lottery machine at the employee, beginning the altercation that led to the employee being stabbed.
The worker was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.
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No one is in custody. Area Central detectives are investigating.