I live in Illinois and I was in Chicago last weekend. My hotel was a few blocks away from the epicenter of the youth mob. I live in another city a couple hours away, but I follow Chicago news and talk to locals enough to know that I shouldn’t wander around in the downtown area at night, which is a stark difference from just a few years a…
I live in Illinois and I was in Chicago last weekend. My hotel was a few blocks away from the epicenter of the youth mob. I live in another city a couple hours away, but I follow Chicago news and talk to locals enough to know that I shouldn’t wander around in the downtown area at night, which is a stark difference from just a few years ago.
Many people want to put their heads in the sand and act like this is not happening, but when you find yourself in the middle of it, you can’t deny it.
Everyone deserves to be safe, not just tourists and people who can afford to live and recreate downtown. But if you can’t protect your downtown core then just imagine how horrible things are in the peripheral areas that are less visible to the media and have vastly fewer resources.
I went looking for this story, not having heard it, and almost every news outlet in Chicagoland is referring to it as, "Downtown Disturbance". DISTURBANCE?!?
I live in Illinois and I was in Chicago last weekend. My hotel was a few blocks away from the epicenter of the youth mob. I live in another city a couple hours away, but I follow Chicago news and talk to locals enough to know that I shouldn’t wander around in the downtown area at night, which is a stark difference from just a few years ago.
Many people want to put their heads in the sand and act like this is not happening, but when you find yourself in the middle of it, you can’t deny it.
Everyone deserves to be safe, not just tourists and people who can afford to live and recreate downtown. But if you can’t protect your downtown core then just imagine how horrible things are in the peripheral areas that are less visible to the media and have vastly fewer resources.
I went looking for this story, not having heard it, and almost every news outlet in Chicagoland is referring to it as, "Downtown Disturbance". DISTURBANCE?!?