Too bad, sir. You're the wrong skin color to have your concerns addressed in Chi-town.
Posted on 06/04/2021 6:27:44 PM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO (CBS) — A River North restaurant owner says he is closing earlier – not because of COVID, but because of crime.
The owner of Bella Luna Bar & Pizza, 731 N. Dearborn St., said people are not coming out late anymore because of issues in the neighborhood – just as Chicago Police announced officers will no longer be stationed across the downtown area like they have been for the last year.
The Chicago Police downtown deployment plan was put into place after two rounds of looting and unrest in and around the downtown area last year. It is moving out effective Tuesday.
The move was news to business owners such as Bella Luna owner Dan Alberga, who said crime is a continued issue in the area.
“It deters people, you know, the people from the suburbs and other people that come down here, because they don’t want to deal with the violence,” Alberga said.
Bella Luna has been in business at Superior and Dearborn streets since 1988. Customers were grabbing pizzas at Bella Luna long before all the high rises surrounding it went up.
“I used to sit outside here and the furthest building you’d see is Marina City from here to the river. There was nothing here,” Alberga said.
But recently, Alberga said the change he has seen in the neighborhood has been for the worse.
“With all the carjackings and shootings and stuff that goes on down here, it’s just not safe,” he said.
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Too bad, sir. You're the wrong skin color to have your concerns addressed in Chi-town.
Bella Luna makes a damned fine pizza.
Too bad for him.
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There is also no telling how many of these business owners voted for the dEmocrats who wish to cause them to be abandoned by the police.
“Careful what you ask for; you may get it.”
I think what is happening there falls within that instruction.
Folks wanted to be liberal, and free, and not be restricted in any way by what they wanted as entertainment, or distraction. They got it....
The Rats just don’t get it.
“The Rats just don’t get it.”
They get it, alright. They hate Normals. This is how they make their lives miserable.
See my tag line.
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You don’t get it. They want dystopia.
“You don’t get it. They want dystopia.”
BINGO. You get the prize.
Maybe Jussie should have gone there to get a slice instead of a hoagie.
That’s similar to what’s happened to shopping malls in my neck of the woods. Not in my little lily white town but not to far away.
The feral yutes don’t go there to shop but to strike fear in the hearts of whitey.
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