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Two teenage boys were charged with robbing a woman and a teen girl Wednesday night on the city's Southwest Side.
Chicago police said the boys, both 15, were arrested around 10:37 p.m. in the 9000 block of South Ashland Avenue in the Brainerd neighborhood. They were charged with two felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm.
The teens were identified as the suspects in the armed robbery of a 14-year-old girl and a 35-year-old woman in the 9400 block of South Justine Street, a half-hour earlier.
Police said the boys were arrested by responding officers.
No further information was immediately available.
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Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin Weekly Newspaper, OakPark.com and Sportskeeda.