UPDATE: Description of Chase Bank Robber Released

Police released photos of a man who robbed an Orland Park bank while while wearing a red wig Thursday afternoon, and sketches of a man who drove the getaway car.

A man went into Chase Bank at 13211 S. LaGrange Road and ordered the bank manager to open the safe around 3:50 p.m. Thursday, according to Orland Park police. The man threatened to harm bank staff if they didn't cooperate, according to a news release from the Chicago Federal Bureau of Investigations office.

He was described as a six-foot tall white man, between 20 and 25, with no facial hair, wearing a tan baseball cap and what appeared to be a red wig. Witnesses said they saw a hammer attached to a shoulder bag the man was carrying, according to the release.

Police said a "large amount of United States currency" was then taken, but did not say specifically how much.

The man then left the bank, then got into a late-model black Chevrolet Cavalier with no license plates and the car drove east on 131st Street. The driver is as a 30-year-old white man with a heavy build, round face, beard stubble, thinning black hair.

No black Cavaliers were seen driving east or west on 131st Street between LaGrange Road and Harlem Avenue between 4:10 p.m. and 4:20 p.m. Thursday. No signs of a traffic stop were seen on 131st Street between LaGrange and a dead end east of Harlem Avenue between 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Workers at businesses near the bank, including Smoothie Rox, Aldi and It's Greek To Me, said they did not see a black Cavalier leaving from the parking lot and did not know any further details about the robbery.

Orland Park police detectives remained near the bank and were still investigating the robbery as of 6 p.m. Thursday.

Police reviewed security camera footage from nearby Carl Sandburg High School to see if they could identify the robber. Officers also looked over surveillance from Gas City, on the northeast corner of 131st Street and LaGrange Road.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also investigating the crime, and did not return phone calls regarding the case as of noon Friday.

Anyone with information on the crime should contact the Orland Park Police Department at 708-349-4111 or the FBI at 312-421-6700.