“Why are they taking over the north side now?”
Because they’ve so befouled their own neighborhoods that now even THEY can’t stand to live there, so they are moving into other neighborhoods so they can screw those up, as well.
They were staging for another foray on to Michigan Avenue.
The disturbance grew so large at one point that some businesses in Chicago’s busiest tourist district were forced to shut down...
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/08/15/michigan-avenue-fights/
They sustained ZERO losses and made a nice haul.
They will be back.
I grew up on the West side of Chicago back in the 50’s and 60’s. It was Utopia for a kid. Garfield Park was 3 blocks away with a World Class Conservatory. Madison Street shopping area had all the major shops and was 3 blocks away. The buses to downtown via Jackson Blvd. was 2 blocks away with a beautiful library across the street from my Grammar school, Delano. Life was idyllic. The neighborhood had a small Jewish bakery, Italian bakery, drug store, cleaners, Frank’s shoe repair and 2 Candy stores. Children roamed the neighborhoods until the first street light came on. We used the alleys as our private passages and played in the streets. No child was ever threatened or harmed. The buildings were well kept and apartments were beautiful.
Then the new “neighbors” started moving in. The neighborhood flipped quickly and within a couple of years my family was the last White family on our block. I saw two murders from my bedroom window...one an Egyptian Cobra gang member shot across the street from my building and the other at the small local tavern across the street that had it’s door open and I could see inside when the guy on the barstool was shot and killed. The neighborhood started deteriorating immediately and today is what as known as the notorious West side of Chicago. They took a perfectly, incredibly beautiful neighborhood and turned it into a crime infested filthy ghetto. The Black race has some internal rot that they and only they can address...but until they face that reality nothing will change and it will only get worse.