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Magnificent Mile No More: Chicago Is Blighted By Shoplifting As Left-Wing AG Stops Prosecuting Shoplifters Who Steal Less Than $1000 Of Goods
https://www.gopusa.com ^ | 25 OCTOBER 2021 | Staff

Posted on 10/25/2021 12:13:33 PM PDT by Red Badger

Chicago is the latest city to be hit by rampant shoplifting and its Magnificent Mile, the once highly-populated retail destination, is now dotted with empty storefronts as businesses are being driven away by the brazen thieves.

The city has been plagued by a string of robberies and a wave of crime in the past few months, as some say that the city’s ‘soft-on-crime’ policies embolden the thieves. The issue may only grow worse as at least 50 cops have been put on unpaid leave for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Shoplifting cases grew more common following a December 2016 motion from State’s Attorney Kim Foxx that mandated Chicago prosecutors only issue felony charges for theft of property over $1,000. – Read more at the Daily Mail

Chicago thieves were seen on camera taking thousands of dollars worth of luxury purses from a store in the city.

Video released by the Chicago Police Department shows two suspects brazenly taking purses from a Bottega Veneta location near the Magnificent Mile. The incident occurred on Oct. 11 around 2:54 p.m. and resulted in thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise, CWBChicago reported, citing the police video and a source. – Read more at Fox News

First Norridge, now Skokie. https://t.co/e4WxmUZLYS pic.twitter.com/Me19pO2kmt

— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) October 5, 2021

Express checkout at the Louis Vuitton in the Northbrook Court on the North Shore of Chicago. $LVMH pic.twitter.com/R1HYNDbllB

— Nicole Sherrod 📈 (@NicSherrod) October 6, 2021

Sent by a follower.

This was at the Ulta in Norridge at 4115 N Harlem near the 16th district in #Chicago pic.twitter.com/Ab59s9N2lA

— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) September 27, 2021

VIDEO AT LINK.........................


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1 posted on 10/25/2021 12:13:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

No interest in visiting a Dem city ravaged by crime with do nothing Soros DA’s. Plenty of great Red state places to visit.


2 posted on 10/25/2021 12:15:22 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Red Badger

The Democrat party versus the people.

Again.


3 posted on 10/25/2021 12:15:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

Reparations, only lasts as long as stores don’t close.


4 posted on 10/25/2021 12:16:57 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: BenLurkin

The Democrat party versus CIVILIZATION....................


5 posted on 10/25/2021 12:17:03 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Chicongo is a Chitshow. Once-great city is never going to get better. Has no future and rather looks like a harbinger of things to come in other US cities.


6 posted on 10/25/2021 12:17:30 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Red Badger

Price everything at $1000 before coupon.


7 posted on 10/25/2021 12:17:32 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: 1Old Pro

I think some of those people from North are moving to my county. Lot of strange looking people showing up. Saw my first Telsa last Friday! Looked like Yankees inside it. :)


8 posted on 10/25/2021 12:19:25 PM PDT by Karoo
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To: 1Old Pro
No interest in visiting a Dem city ravaged by crime with do nothing Soros DA’s. Plenty of great Red state places to visit.

I have not been there for about 10 years and don't plan to ever go back. I used to have to go there semi-regularly on work-related trips. While I worked, my wife would amuse herself on the Magnificent Mile. If we ever went back she'd have to stay in the hotel room. I'll pass.

9 posted on 10/25/2021 12:19:45 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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Similar to Seattle. Well organized MOBS of looters go into stores and each steal $999 worth of stuff. One small gift shop was cleaned out in minutes like locusts.


10 posted on 10/25/2021 12:21:15 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Red Badger

With the likes of the dems who are in charge of various cities, America is fast on the road to becoming another Venezuela.


11 posted on 10/25/2021 12:24:03 PM PDT by kagnew
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I have not been there for about 10 years and don't plan to ever go back.

Yep, glad I got Chicago and D.C. and NYC off my bucket list.

12 posted on 10/25/2021 12:24:12 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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a n a r c h y


13 posted on 10/25/2021 12:27:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: Red Badger

Does the $1000 include sales tax?


14 posted on 10/25/2021 12:27:19 PM PDT by I-ambush (If we make it we’ll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying)
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Is that rule only for blacks, or as a white woman, can I go and shoplift less than $1,000, and expect to get the same treatment by Attorney General Foxx?


15 posted on 10/25/2021 12:30:17 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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That street, and the general area around it, were a lot of fun to visit, along with the usual museums and such Chicago has done quite well.

Of course, now it’s a shell and not worth a vacation.


16 posted on 10/25/2021 12:30:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: kagnew

Yes, that’s the NWO plan to make America third world


17 posted on 10/25/2021 12:30:52 PM PDT by PeachyKeen
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To: Red Badger

NOTE: if the value of the items stolen exceed $1,000 you can bet that they will forget that those items were on sale. No way the thugs will be prosecuted under the present lawless environment.


18 posted on 10/25/2021 12:31:17 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Red Badger

Feel for the few decent people living in Democrat hell.


19 posted on 10/25/2021 12:32:03 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Red Badger

Lightfoot Legacy


20 posted on 10/25/2021 12:33:54 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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