Won't even bother asking about the politics of the Chicago city gov't at that time, or the lack of mention in the LSM of this episode, THE greatest politically-caused natural disaster, in terms of deaths, in at least the past 40 years.
The embrace of socialism is essentially a death wish, and socialist governments are hardly to be differentiated, over time, from en passant executioners.
And in many cases historically, one can drop the en passant entirely.