A 22-year-old Chicago Ridge woman caught driving a car without a front registration plate also lacked a driver’s license, according to an Orland Park Police report released Monday.

But what really got officers’ attention was the $20,000 in her satchel.

Asked where she got the money, the woman reportedly said a man in Chicago gave it to her as a gift for “hanging out with him” and being “like his girlfriend” for the next few months.

Police learned of the cash when the woman declined to leave the container in her car after the 2:50 a.m. Jan. 27 traffic stop on the 14300 block of Southwest Highway.

During questioning at the police station, the woman said she had a four-year relationship with a Chicago Ridge man, but had come to Orland Park from downtown to visit her “side boyfriend” at a specific address in the Brook Hills West subdivision, according to the report.

The woman reportedly said she doesn’t live with her Chicago Ridge boyfriend, and he is unaware of her other “friends.”

Police released the woman after determining that nothing she had said or anything on her cell phone indicated she was involved in prostitution.