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CHICAGO — Crash-and-grab burglars targeted the Prada store in downtown Chicago on Saturday morning. It’s the second such burglary in two weeks along that pricey stretch of Oak Street, just off the Mag Mile. Just after 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, four or five people compromised a large display window at the Prada boutique, 30 East Oak. Based on the extent of the damage and the strength of the security glass, they may have used a vehicle to ram their way in.

CHICAGO — Police are investigating two burglaries at high-end retailers along the Magnificent Mile overnight. In a bold crime, two men broke through a wall to burglarize Saks Fifth Avenue, 700 North Michigan, shortly before 3 a.m. The store’s remote security team saw a man walking around the fifth floor with armloads of merchandise and notified Chicago police. Cops eventually found a hole in the drywall on the fifth floor, according to a CPD report. The burglars escaped onto Michigan Avenue and got into a waiting vehicle moments before police arrived. An officer who saw the surveillance video described the...