Rahm's promise that downtown is safe and adequate manpower is available to preserve law and order is working just great! Keep the spin machine going and maybe the problem will go away.
Teen Mob Hits Walgreens On The Mag Mile
June 23, 2011 6:31 PM
CHICAGO (CBS) — The teenage robbery mobs are at it again on North Michigan Avenue.
Some 50 young people barged into a Walgreens at Michigan and Chicago on the Magnificent Mile on Tuesday afternoon. They took bottled drinks and sandwiches off the shelves, then ran off, CBS 2′s Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
A police report says authorities were able to nab three of the thieves.
Walgreens says the store is working with police, helping investigators with video from the store security camera.
The Mag Mile earlier this year was hit by similar mobs of young thieves. Attacks on commuters and bicyclists have become violent, and police have stepped up patrols.
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this story is not anywhere in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times.
PS: jobs and skill training for unemployed youth is the answer. Instead of giving crony contracts to suburban friends.
PAST STORIES ON RAHMS COVERUP OF VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO.
911 tapes shine light on beach closing
Chicago Tribune - Jeremy Gorner - 22 hours ago
The city of Chicago on Thursday released 911 tapes of calls made before the Memorial Day closing of North Avenue Beach showing reports of stolen bikes, dehydrated patrons and people walking in traffic on North Avenue and Lake Shore Drive. ...
Memorial Day 911 tapes cite fighting near beach before closing
Chicago Sun-Times - Allison Horton - 19 hours ago
Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times A group of youths were fighting and attacking others at Oak Street and near North Avenue beaches before police closed North Avenue beach on Memorial Day, according to a collection of 911 tapes of distressed beachgoers. ...
Cops Respond to Memorial Day 911 Tapes
NBC Chicago - Lisa Balde - 4 hours ago
Chicago Police responded to newly released 911 tapes from Memorial Day and maintain that North Avenue Beach was closed that day "in the interest of public safety." On the tapes, beach-goers are heard complaining of fights and even threats ...
Memorial Day 911 Tapes Reveal Fighting at North Avenue Beach
Chicagoist - Chuck Sudo - 11 hours ago
911 tapes obtained by WLS Radio and ABC 7 reveal that there were calls made to the city's 911 control center of people being attacked, threats of violence, fighting and people generally acting like jackasses. Maybe the Tribune didn't get to hear those ...
911 Tapes from North Ave. Beach paint different picture on closing
WLS - Adam Zielinski - Jun 23, 2011
But a collection of 911 tapes obtained Thursday by WLS Radio from the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC), seem to corroborate listener reports. Emergency dispatchers handled at least five separate calls from beachgoers ...
Memorial Day 9-1-1 Calls from Chicago Beaches Reveal Real Concerns
MyFox Chicago - Craig Wall - Jun 23, 2011
Chicago - Call it the tale of the 9-1-1 tapes. And those calls are shedding new light on what really happened on Memorial Day, when Chicago Police shut down North Avenue Beach. But in a twist it seems the real problems ...
OEMC: McCarthy may not have known about Oak St. Beach violence
WLS - John Dempsey - 12 hours ago
He says even if they had, McCarthy might not even have known at the time about the 911 reports of violence at Oak Street Beach. He says McCarthy was answering questions about what happened at North Avenue, not Oak Street. Now Taste of Chicago opens ...
911 calls related to North Ave. Beach shutdown released
ABC7Chicago.com - Jun 23, 2011
June 23, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- The City of Chicago has released some of the 911 calls that led police to shut down North Avenue Beach on Memorial Day. The calls, which ABC7 requested under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal violence may have been ...
911 tapes won't let Memorial Day beach closures rest
WBEZ - 4 hours ago
24, 2011 Even after 911 tapes released to the media included calls from people reporting young people fighting and making threats on a popular Chicago beach, police say the decision to close the beach on Memorial Day was tied to the heat and not ...
Memorial Day calls report fights at Oak Street Beach
WGNtv.com - 10 hours ago
Chicago police say they closed North Avenue Beach on Memorial Day because of the heat. But Oak Street Beach was kept open, despite 911 calls that reported violence. The City of Chicago released 911 calls made on Memorial Day under the freedom of ...
This has been mayor for less than six months and already unable to deal with the truth.
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