Employee hospitalized after break-in at Avondale restaurant

Sun-Times file SHARE COPY LINK Share CLOSE Twitter Facebook Bluesky Email Reddit Flipboard An employee was hospitalized after a break-in at an Avondale restaurant Monday morning, according to police and media reports. The break-in happened around 4:30 a.m. at Brothers Restaurant, 3000 W. Belmont Ave., multiple outlets reported. A man broke the front window and entered the building, displayed a sharp object and demanded money, police said. Two employees inside the restaurant fought with the suspect, who pepper-sprayed them before taking money and running away. Co-owner Laura Villegas told WGN-TV her husband and the cook were involved in the fight. “He was unconscious,” Villegas said. “My husband was afraid of his life, so he just throw the money, he said, ‘Here. There’s no more. I don’t have no more money. Just take it and go, take it and go.” The cook was taken to Swedish Hospital in fair condition. Villegas’ husband refused medical treatment. Detectives are investigating. No one is in custody. SHARE COPY LINK Share CLOSE Twitter Facebook Bluesky Email Reddit Flipboard Sun-Times Wire Chicago Public Media Next Up In Crime Mayor Johnson upends gunshot-detection pilot after voters resoundingly back the technology Chicago man charged in fatal shooting of violence interrupter Andre Thomas in Chicago Heights Woman sexually assaulted, robbed by gunman in Auburn Gresham home: police Man charged in fatal shooting during family argument in Greater Grand Crossing 17-year-old boy charged in 19 burglaries on South, North sides Man found fatally shot in South Deering identified