Goldberg architect recovering from attack during home invasion

12-Aug-10 – Louis Rocah says he is “fine and keeping busy preparing for the courses I’ll be teaching next semester,” a month after the UIC associate professor was hit in the head with a baseball bat during a home invasion.

The incident happened on July 6. Rocah woke around 4:30 a.m. when an intruder tripped an alarm at his two-story gray stone home on Chicago’s north side. Minutes later, a man wearing a black “skeleton” mask burst into his bedroom, swinging the bat and hitting Rocah as he reached for the telephone.

Rocah, a retired architect who worked for Bertrand Goldberg on the design of Marina City, was released from the hospital later that morning. His 80-year-old wife was not hurt.

Police described the intruder as about six feet tall, slim build, wearing dark clothing and gloves. Rocah told Marina City Online “police are still actively pursuing the case but with no success so far.”