The youth gangs are coming up from the South Side, and invading formerly safe areas. This is very disturbing that this sort of thing keeps happening.
The gangs didn’t used to be so brazen about this. The gangs used to know their place and stay in their own neighborhoods.
I may get flamed for this. But, if the mayhem and chaos of the ghetto is going to spread to downtown and nice areas such as the Near North Side, areas where affluent residents live and tourists visit, is that good for the city of Chicago?
This article mentions upcoming events in the city such as Taste of Chicago. Do mob attacks such as this encourage, or discourage, people coming into the city?
Between political correctness run amok, utterly inept policing that’s leaving peaceful areas unprotected while trying to control the free-fire zones, and an unconscionable refusal by the city to hire more cops, downtown Chicago is coming unglued.
I refuse to go into the city any more than I absolutely have to.
“This article mentions upcoming events in the city such as Taste of Chicago. Do mob attacks such as this encourage, or discourage, people coming into the city?”
What conservative would want to go to Chicago, for any reason?
I spent 30+ years running trains into and out of New York City. For the last several years prior to my retirement, I rarely left the bowels of Penn Station to go up onto the street outside — once or twice a year, perhaps. Nothing up there for me to see....
I worked in the Chicago loop for years and my daughter earned her master's from UIC. She didn't attend her own graduation, they mailed her diploma. I didn't encourage her to attend. Except for moving her out of Chicago when she finished, I haven't been back.
That city -- like most indigo-blue cities -- is a completely lost cause. I think we should just build fences and walls around them, and let the inhabitants do whatever they want.
Yes, it's very good for not only Chicago, but IL in general.
I live in central Illinois about 180 miles from Chicago. "Taste of Chicago" should be an event that I would want to take my kids to. As matters stand, you couldn't pay me enough to go to Chicago. Great cultural events happening there along with museums, major league base ball, basket ball and foot ball. Should be a fun place to visit but no thanks. I value my family more than that.
We took the kids to the zoo in St. Louis a week ago, about the same distance as Chicago and witnessed quite enough bad behavior at the zoo from the entitlement crowd.
I wouldn’t say disturbing, but interesting. The reason that gangs tend to stay in their own ‘hood is that when they leave it, the rules change.
I remember the Rodney King riots, when the first night, the rioters entered the Korean neighborhood, and looted it. But the important thing was that, by the second night, the Korean neighborhood was an armed camp. Had any rioter ventured in there, he would have been a dead rioter.
Yet another lesson was that the Koreans didn’t just stop at defense, but made a revenge contract with the Korean mob in Korea, to send over a plane full of tattooed mob killers to hunt down a bunch of rioters in *their* ‘hood and beat the heck out of them. When the LAPD discovered what was going on, they told the Koreans to keep it discreet.
In any event, back to Chicago, when these rich people find out that gangs are invading their turf, they will direct the police to send a message to the thugs. And the police will likely be more than happy to oblige. They will round up a bunch and put them on ice in a bad place for 48-72 hours, and not the typical juvenile hall either. Then they will send them on their way, maybe not even arresting them or pressing charges, just letting them know not to come back, or else.
Paging Purple lips, Paging Mooch, Paging Mayor Emanuel, Paging Axelrod, Paging Blagojevich, paging all available Aldermen, paging Penny Pritzker, paging Eric Whitaker: Spill in aisle 7, Spill in aisle 7....
The dems made their bed. Now they can lay in it.
I'll be munching on the popcorn when the full-scale invasion of elite Chicago happens.
Paging Purple lips, Paging Mooch, Paging Mayor Emanuel, Paging Axelrod, Paging Blagojevich, paging all available Aldermen, paging Penny Pritzker, paging Eric Whitaker: Spill in aisle 7, Spill in aisle 7....
The dems made their bed. Now they can lay in it.
I'll be munching on popcorn, with my feet up on the ottoman, when the full-scale invasion of elite Chicago happens.
I was at Taste of Chicano, er, Chicago summer of 2007. I looked around and found my self surrounded by a bunch of thug looking characters, each of which had a tattoo on their necks. Never went back, never going again.
Well, there have been shootings in the crowd the last few years at the Taste. If that doesn’t cause a drop in attendance, I don’t know what will.