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Chicago police are alerting residents to a string of home burglaries by a pair posing as city employees.
The men have targeted elderly homeowners a half-dozen times over the past month, police said in a community alert.
One of them distracts the homeowner while pretending to be a Chicago Water Department worker or a tree cutter, while the other enters the home and steals jewelry and money.
The burglaries happened:
About 7:45 p.m. May 21 in the 6500 block of North Springfield;
About 8 p.m. May 21 in the 1600 block of West 32nd;
About 8:40 p.m. May 21 in the 2100 block of South Tan;