Eight long hours after yesterday’s Pride Parade ended, Chicago Police vehicles are stacked up on Halsted Street as officers try to maintain control of the area. On the heels of a post-Pride Parade shitshow of epic proportions, Alderman Tom Tunney today tells CBS2Chicago today that he is open to moving the Pride Parade downtown. “We hear from
Six people called police to report being robbed in our neighborhood between 8:30 last night and 4:30 this morning. Belmont Avenue, which has racked up a dozen muggings in a month, scored two more in the overnight mayhem. • A moving van crew was robbed at gunpoint in the 2900 block of Racine around 8:30
Eight hours after Sunday’s parade ended, police were still hustling tomaintain control of area streets. The Chicago Police Department fired off a press release minutes after yesterday’s Pride Parade ended. In it, they perkily announced that the parade garnered a mere eight arrests and a good time was had by all. End of story. Bye
For many concerned neighbors, it has been the “what if” and “one of these days” scenario that we hoped would never come, but in our gut knew it would. The fact that it came in the disaster that has recently followed Chicago’s Pride Parade should surprise no one. A 21-year-old gang member was shot while
Image: B Michelle Pippin Fourteen people have been arrested so far today along the Chicago Pride Parade route. The day’s events have so far been marked by fewer batteries than last year, but a significant number of calls for medical assistance, many of which received long-delayed responses. As of 6:40PM, this afternoon’s arrests include: 11:23AM
UPDATE JUNE 30TH: Video of the police car dance is now up, also from @runningwithcf ————- At least two Chicago police cars were heavily damaged by rowdy crowds along Halsted Street during this afternoon’s Pride Parade. @runningwithcf sent these photos out on Twitter, showing a huge crowd swarming an unattended squad car at Halsted and
Let’s have some fun. Here’s a look at scenes from the 2015 Chicago Pride Parade side-by-side with photos of the same locations during long-ago Pride Parades. The parade has really changed. The buildings? Not so much. Broadway At Wellington, 1985 1985 Photo: Alan Light on Flickr Broadway & Belmont 1976 1976 photo: Leather Archives & Museum Broadway
The locations of 10 known robberies that have been reported alongBelmont Avenue since June 8th. Two more men were beaten and robbed along Belmont Avenue overnight. In a sign of just how brazen and out of control the area has become, one victim was attacked under the Red Line tracks as two CTA police units
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