An off-duty Chicago police officer was robbed of his police star and wallet as he was walking home in the Longwood Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.The officer, described only as a man in his 40s, wasn't injured during the 1 a.m. armed robbery in the 9700 block of South Wentworth Avenue, police said.
The officer, who is assigned to the Central police district in the South Loop, was walking to his home when at least two men approached him, police said.
One of the men, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, pulled a chrome .357 Magnum handgun and demanded cash, police said.
The men got away with the officer's wallet and five-point star badge, but not his service weapon, police said.
Police had only a vague description of the gunman and none of the second man. No arrests had been made.
