Posted on 08/10/2020 5:00:01 AM PDT by KeyLargo
LIVE COVERAGE: Widespread damage reported in downtown Chicago after night of looting Chicago News / 35 mins ago
CHICAGO — Widespread damage is reported in downtown Chicago after looting and rioting began around midnight.
Witnesses report hundreds of people smashing their way into stores throughout Michigan Avenue, areas in the South Loop and the near North Side.
WGN’s Judy Wang was on the scene early and reported seeing people filling trash bags with merchandise. She also saw crowd trashing the streets outside the stores and turning over garbage cans.
2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins told WGN he witnessed people driving up in vehicles, smashing windows of stores on Michigan Avenue and grab items and drive away.
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So? Give it to them.
Better than letting our great cities be destroyed.
To make an omelet, you have to crack a few eggs.
I would like Trump to win this election. Aren’t you quoting Stalin, or was it Duranty from the NY
It was a great city, wasn’t it? I, literally, grew up in Rainbow Park. Our back porch sat right on it. Incredible place to be a kid. Just acres and acres of places to play. (We we’re allowed to do that back then).
Of course, we had the beach a few steps away, two playgrounds, handball, tennis and two football fields that the city flooded every winter to give us two skating rinks.
Can you even imagine that today? The city’s lawyers would have to be taken out on stretchers.
Don’t tell the soccer moms and snowflakes, but we played on cast iron bars set in cement.
And, miraculously, lived to tell the story.
The city offered so much. The museums, the planetarium, the aquarium, you could never be bored.
Funny true story for anyone who recalls Koch’s and Brentano’s. It was a great bookstore chain. The MLK riots happened in 1968. My dad had to go downtown while things were still pretty feral. Remember, this was pre-cell phone, internet, IPod, DVD—very primitive times.
He heard a lot of smashing glass so he knew looters were heading his way. What did he do?
He ducked into the one store he knew they wouldn’t hit: the bookstore.
He was right.
I always thought that was pretty clever.
Did you just love Marshall Field’s or what? It always seemed so gloriously grand to me.
I love looking at old pics online. Fortunately, there are plenty of them.
We never talk about Carson Pirie Scott. It was kind of like MF’s poor relation.
Good policy. Me too.
I also make it a habit to stay out of harm’s way. Even if you are Chesty Puller, the odds will get you on a bad night.
Bookmark
Good job protecting people and property mayor. Could you be more incompetent and corrupt. What a pathetic loser. However, the majority of voters in chicongo voted for her and her ilk. Enjoy the suck. More popcorn!!!
Not to be nitpicking but shouldn’t “is” be “am”???
My mom and her mother would go to Marshall Field’s cafeteria, which was actually very fancy but surprisingly inexpensive (bet it was a “loss leader”). Or my grandfather and I would go to Riis park and catch crayfish using hot dog slices (!) as bait. Just after Marina City was built, you could go to the top of it (the ACTUAL ROOF, not a glassed-in floor) for 50 cents and also take a tour of the then-fancy Eames-era model apartments.
No other large city in the world EVER had such a nice lakefront, park system, and attractions. It took a disaster, the fire, to create it, and another disaster, Chicago/Illinois government, will destroy it.
Great story about the bookstore.
The one store they wouldn’t loot!
ROFL.
OMG. I was a little girl when Marina City was completed. I was *sure* that I was on track to grow up (as quickly as possible) and live there with a German Shepherd.
Well, I got half of my dream.
Now, Chicago is on pace to become New Detroit.
I think the reason that people find Chicagoans more pleasant than New Yorkers is because deep down, we are still midwesterners.
Do you remember Wee Folks? I sure do. They had that awesome play area gated off for kids so moms could shop in peace. The owner was a white guy and deeply loved. As the neighborhood demographics began to change, he was constantly told by friends, family, and the community to get the hell out. Instead, he stayed put and sought ways to reach out to his new neighbors.
He was shot to death in front of his beloved little store by those *new neighbors*.
Soon the Rats will find ways to force businesses and citizens to stay inside the destruction zones.....ala the USSR and East Germany back in the bad old days.....shoot ya if you try to leave. Probably not that overtly but in essence that’s what it will be.
They already invaded DC and pepper sprayed and attacked peaceful protesters 1/2 hour before the 7 pm curfew was due to start. On the other hand when rioters and thieves attacked stores in affluent Georgetown, law and order was not there in force.
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