Baby Taken in Cicero Carjacking Found Safe

Cicero, IL - Police are searching for a man who hopped into a running car that had a baby in the back seat Wednesday morning and drove off from Liberty Elementary School in Cicero.

The man is described as in his early to mid-20s, about 5 feet 11 inches to 6 feet tall, with a mustache, wearing black pants, a black shirt and a black hooded jacket, according to a statement from Cicero village spokesman Ray Hanania.

A mother was dropping off her pre-school daughter around 8:30 a.m. at the school at 13th Street and 50th Avenue in Cicero, and she left her Dodge Durango running and double-parked with her 1-year-old son in the backseat.

The mother was at the school door with her daughter when she saw a man jump into the driver’s seat of her car and speed off, north on 50th Avenue before turning right on Roosevelt Road, heading east, the statement said.

Cicero police made a block-by-block search for the man, and the Durango was found in the 2000 block of Kildare Street in Chicago. The engine was still running and the baby was still in the back seat.

The man was last seen running northbound across Roosevelt Road at Kildare Avenue, the statement said.