A person in the Chesterfield neighborhood was shot late Thursday and early Friday, including a 47-year-old man injured as he struggled with an armed robber in South Chatham, police said.

That man was walking on the 600 block of East 89th Street about 3:30 a.m. when two younger men, between 18 and 20, approached him from behind and announced a robbery, police said.


They were after the man’s jewelry, police said.

The older man struggled with the armed robber and was shot in the thigh, and the two fled east on 89th Street, police said.

The victim was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition, police said.