Elite Sports Cards and Comics' owner says this is not the first time thieves have targeted one of his businesses.
Video captured two thieves smashing their way into a Northwest Side trading cards and comics shop early Monday morning. Ronnie Holloway, the owner of the Dunning neighborhood's Elite Sports Cards and Comics at 3406 North Harlem Avenue, says his business took a big hit in the smash-and-grab heist, and this is not the first time thieves have targeted one of his businesses.
"They focused on certain high-end hobby product," Holloway said. The thieves got away with around $100,000 in valuable packs of Pokémon and major league sports cards as alarm bells rang. Much of that inventory was brought in recently, and so, emotion surfaced in Holloway's voice. "It is definitely a hard blow to me, being a small business. This is what I depend on. This is how I take care of my family," Holloway said. "It is a hard blow, and I'm sitting at my desk, and adding things up, $100,000 already. And this happening again, with insurance, that's going to be another nightmare. It is just not that easy to just recover." Holloway lives 10 minutes away from his store and rushed there when his alarm company called him. It was 2:30 a.m., and he got there ahead of police. "This is my passion, and this is what happens to businesses that are trying to have something to provide for their families," Holloway said. Holloway opened the store three-and-a-half years ago after enjoying success with the city's oldest card store in the Montrose neighborhood, which he bought from its retiring owner, who had run it for 41 years. In 2022, thieves targeted that collectibles store, too.Holloway is convinced that his stores are being targeted, but he feels that he has taken every precaution, and the city needs to do more to protect business owners like him. "The mayor has to do something other than say, 'We need to give guidance to our kids,'" Holloway said. "There needs to be action taken because we cannot continue to allow this. They're putting us out of business. We are people paying taxes like anyone else. We work hard. We're supposed to deal with it. It's not that simple." Police said the burglary happened just before 2 a.m. The suspects fled the scene in an unknown vehicle.
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