Thank you for this. Not surprised. I want to go to Kingston Mines Saturday night. Despite the seemingly dangerous appearance, the place is well secured. Obviously, you go taxi to taxi and you don’t walk, even a block from there in either direction now.
Did you see any mounted police? I’m going to be around Chestnut and Rush Street.
I wasn’t that far north (I was first along Randolph Street, then worked my way from Van Buren north to Madison and west), but I don’t recall seeing a single cop the whole time. The police force is down dramatically since 2019 with no signs of slowing.
Near-north like Chestnut and Rush is where a lot of the recent trouble has been. The “Red Line Raiders” come up from the south side in groups and cause trouble downtown and on the near north side. The latest rumor is that there’s a Twitter call out for a “gathering” at North Avenue Beach on Monday.