A Wild(ing) Night

Any word on 018 blowing up overnight?

Oh wait - here's a portion of the story popping up on BreakingNews.com:

• Chicago police this morning were looking into at least three separate downtown muggings that were carried out by separate groups of attackers, as the city gears up for its busy summer festival season.

  The attacks occurred among hundreds of tourists and music lovers emptied out of Grant Park for the Chicago Blues Festival, which city officials tout as the largest free blues festival in the world.

  One incident involved up to 10 attackers, which included seven youths and three adults, who beat and robbed a man in the 500 block of North State Street at about 9:50 p.m., police said.

  The victim, a male tourist in his 40s, was being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a broken jaw, police said.

  At about 10:20 p.m., a couple was accosted by a group at the Red Line station in the 100 block of North State Street, just below the Chicago Theatre, police said.

  In that attack, the couple were robbed and the man beaten by an unknown number of attackers, who fled. The male victim was also taken to Northwestern with non-serious injuries.

There seems to be something missing here, though "Red Line" might be a clue.

Remember, the last week of school is coming up and all the lil darlins' will be bored by 1700 hours on Friday. Has Quinn activated the National Guard yet?

And for the record, the "three" "muggings" that are being "investigated?" Add a zero to that for incidents occurring last night in 018.

Crime is down and if no one reports it or the media doesn't get a hold of it? It never happened.