Come to Chicago to Get Shot
This lady is going to have a great story to tell everyone back home:
She came to Chicago last week to attend a school choir conference and enjoy some pizza with her 11-year-old son, but as the Connecticut woman headed to the airport Monday she was bringing home some harrowing memories.
The night before, the 46-year-old woman was shot while walking with her son across the street from AMC River East 21 in Streeterville, a movie theater with a history of violence and loitering that has prompted calls for better public safety.
“It’s been shocking,” the woman told the Sun-Times in a brief interview as she headed to the airport Monday morning. "I’m nervous. I’ve been telling myself the same story over and over,” said the woman, who asked not to be named.
Second Ward Ald. Brian Hopkins said the shooting was “further proof” of the need for an 8 p.m. curfew for minors downtown.
A curfew ain't going to cut it Hopkins. We need serious charges and serious prison time. In the cases of minors with guns, we need parents charged, convicted and imprisoned. We need a "broken windows" type year or three of enforcement where every loitering asshole gets ticketed and fined once, then jailed from the second offense onward.
How many other tourists are going to avoid Chicago like the plague once this victim tells everyone about minding her own business and catching a bullet for her troubles? With businesses fleeing, conventions exiting and homeowners rapidly becoming unable to afford the property taxes and crime, tourism is now a fourth pillar of tax revenue that is crumbling before our eyes.
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
79 Comments:
My wife and I used to go downtown/River North/etc all the time for entertainment. We stay the fuck away now. I have to go occasionally for work, but I try to avoid it at all costs. Whole City is a shithole now.
“…serious charges and serious fines..” won’t ever materialize since this is Hopkins constituency.
Lady is from Connecticut which is a deep blue state - do you think she voted Democrat there? Voting has consequences.
She’s ok - just a bullet in the arm. At least the thugs did not BEAT the shit out of her until she had a miscarriage like they did to that young pregnant woman last year in practically the same fucking spot!!!!!!!!
Don’t be demonizing those yuts … they just be fun’in.
Ah Chicago … come to enjoy the entertainment and bullets. By the way … I’m sure everyone knows this is the most affluent part of the City. And mind you … you still can get harmed and SHOT even when it’s unprovoked!!! What a cesspool. Reminds me of the family (with children) that was visiting Northwestern Hospital a block away and got car jacked at gunpoint only a block from this shooting.
Will this incident be added to the tourist brochures?
The US State Dept recently updated their “no go” level 4 countries where tourism is highly discouraged. Will Chicago be added to the list???
Then we can’t have a residency requirement!!!!! BS
SCC has the correct approach in dealing with this.
Gershbein & Hopkins, “it’s been going for some time, need an 8 pm curfew. Yea we know. Worked that area in costume and out of costume on and off for 35 years starting in the early 80s. Yes, it got worse every year. They are not putting these people in jail and that’s why there is a problem. These two need to get all the business people, property owners and put pressure on the judges, especially the Chief judge, the new SA and the libtards in the State House who passed the Safe-T-Act. Don’t waste time with the mayor or city counsel. Picket these Dems who perpetuate this lawlessness in the city and backup the police or this will escalate.
They just funin and bustin caps cuz day gots nuttin better to do
You want it to stop? Shut the CTA down at 10 or 11. The people that can afford an UBER will be all that's left.
Connecticut. Brain dead libs. Typical hypocrites that vote for lib policies because it doesn’t effect them in there rich neighborhoods..
Until you visit Chicago then it does.
Where is the governor crying on behalf of the masses?
JB? Don't you want to talk about gun laws?
This is what happens when you allow the criminal element to do whatever they want. Get caught with a gun , no problem , we have second chance probation. You’re already out on a felony case , no worries go ahead and pick up another one and some liberal judge will set you free to commit more crimes. This place is a total joke.
all the chicago democRATic politicians and liberal news know exactly what the problem is and who the problem is,,,,,,, but don't worry about it there will be some new warm and fuzzy sounding plan that will cost the taxpayers money that won't work like all the other plans they had
Any update on the Streeterville couple who were attacked last year and the wife ended up with a miscarriage? (One year later and we’re still dealing with Them). Was she able to reconcieve? How are the 3 of the 10 ‘kids’ who were caught doing? Did they get sentenced or did their ‘nonsense’ charges get dropped before Kimm Foxx left office?
Exactly who is Alderman Hopkins referring to when he says “minor” curfew?
Those Chicago values....
The problem isn’t youth. The problem is a youth of a certain type of demographic.
Truth is easy to see but hard to hear.
Glad to hear she is okay.
Where's Snelling's strategy and tactics to address this? Didn't he have a plan for downtown crowds. Oh, that's right. just like he had a plan for street takeovers and drifting. Nothing's accomplished. I agree SCC, we need Broken Windows enforcement.
Besides that little hiccup, how was the trip?
Beat and kicked a middle-aged woman lucky to still get pregnant, who miscarried and is unlikely to get pregnant again,. In broad daylight. With no resulting charges..
Not just the AMC on Illinois, up and down McClurg, Ohio, Ontario, the 7-11. South Streeterville residential doormen lock their lobby entry doors when the Black teens arrive..
My liberal Chicago women-friends are far more worried about Trump than street crimes and violence downtown Chicago and their own formerly-nice neighborhoods. Many of these middle-aged women have been direct victims of recent crimes, yet more worried about MAGA politics..
BJ says don't demonize them, their enslaved ancestors built this city. Legend has it that du Sable and his Potawatomi baby mama were growing onions not too far from there.
His strategy is you better look good in your uniform. That’ll show them you mean business
Maybe Alderman should just keep their mouth shut. To listen to them you think they were the officer on the street, the investigator or the detective.
Broken windows? How are you going to cite someone if they decide to flee, you cannot foot pursue. If they decide to fight you, you cannot use force. And if they are a juve? Realistically, there is absolutely no course of action available to police.
We lost the FOP conference to Utah in 2 years because of our known, advertised, progressive democrat, violence. I have an idea thou, why don't we charge the parents like they did with the Highland Park shooter, take away all vouchers and public aid. Why are we paying Mama for raising savages.
the correct ghetto word is "nuffin"
Congressional hearings and the mayor says crime is down, Chicago is safe, no problems, Orange Man bad.
Dey waz jist funnin’
Great reference to Broken Windows, I sadly assume most new folks in our line of work don't understand it. I mean SOMEONE has to be the police, if you want to just write warnings that's fine, but I feel that's how the traffic became so bad.... everyone wanted to let it all slide, now folks pass me (marked car) on the Dan like 30+ over lol.......
Nothing new here just a continuance of the same pattern : young black thugs causing chaos, carrying guns, police unable to do anything about it or risk suspension or firing, no consequences for animal anti social behavior.
Hey! You're not allowed to talk about that hate crime that wasn't a hate crime because the victim was white. That was just a random unlucky occurrence of youthful exuberance gone awry. Black peoples can't be raciss no matter what, because slavery or something.
How about moving the traffic section back to the north pier. That way you have a built in police presence and a close proximity to Robert’s Pizza. Mighty fine place to eat and have a few after work. I’m in that area quite a bit and once the nice weather hits it becomes a whole different beast. I’m retired from the job and always have my little friend with me but the folks that can afford to live in that area don’t really conceal carry. Call them whatever you want but they pay a lot of money for taxes over there and we need the haul. Does the traffic section really need to be in the 001st district any ways?
I'm sure the thugs who already disobey the current curfew laws to steal cars, rob, shoot and murder people, with stolen guns they couldn't legally possess even if they weren't stolen, will suddenly turn their lives around because it's extra naughty to be out after 8pm. "What time did he shoot the tourist from his stolen car on the way to loot the store on Michigan Avenue and Rob the other tourists? Oh, it was only 7? Damn! Can't hit him with the curfew. We'll get him next time!"
We can put it up on billboards. The city of flying lead. We can make a new flag and have a parade.
This reminds me of the couple leaving a Sox game a few years ago. Enjoyed a game, had overpriced dogs and an overpriced drink or two, and upon leaving the game, she was shot & died. For what?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-expressway-shooting-special-ed-teacher-white-sox-game?msockid=24fc765cc93066073412636ac8516703
"KNOWING the right thing is easy. DOING the right thing is hard."
- Francis X. Reagan
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"
Was in the office today. Boss was buying lunch. Tax money going to Chicago. Fuck that, nope, would rather wait till I get back to normalcy to eat and they get the tax dollars even though it costs me directly.
What happened to river north is a travesty. I feel for the business owners there, I do, but they let the city let the hoodlums ruin it....
there are lots of security cameras around there, how about the liberal news show recordings of the usual suspects,,,,, (sarcasm)
And if you notice ....... then you be "raaaaacisss" or one of those "white supremacists" that Biden always yapped about.
Blame it on Barack it started with that Marxists racist .police cannot stop the criminals cannot chase criminal shitheads.
What Graham Nash should sing now:
Somehow people must be free I hope the day comes soon,
Don’t you dare come to Chicago to get shot.
I remember when I was a kid growing up in the 80’s , a kid would wear a T-Shirt that would say. My mom went to New York and all she brought back was this T-Shirt. In todays world it would say my mom got shot by a shithead in Chicago and all she did was bring me back this T-Shirt.
I'm gonna start selling souvenir t-shirts " I went to Chicago and all I got was shot and this bloody shirt"
start a list of what would have prevented this shooting
1. midnight basketball 2. reparations 3. more statutes removed 4. more taxes
Stopped reading at Connecticut.
Voting has consequences gurl.
This will only help our pension...maybe it will hit the 15 percent mark for funding.
Liberals…..They know it all. Never listen.
Amen! I would LOVE to see this Highland Park precedent followed throughout the county of Cook
In Summary, Victim came to Chicago, and took cab from airport. Exited said cab, then heard shots and felt pain...
The worst part is the state police caught the asshole the same night but kim foxx let him go because he was a mutual combatant!
If they choose not to carry, they can deal with whatever happens to their liberal asses.
Herbie will design the flag.
“Parents charged…” plural? Are you joking?
Those damn Maine South kids again!
I tell everyone I know to STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM CHICAGO if they value their life or property...
Anyone even considering anything in Illinois I tell them to skip it - not worth the risk.
Now if someone were to get an ATV equipped with run-flat tires, and IR vision to see through smoke and at night - it could make for an interesting tour through the more colorful neighborhoods in the Shitty...
Chiraq: Come for the Deep Dish, stay for the bullet wound...
Just make everyone pay. All these kids are jumping turn styles and getting on the train free being tapped in by CTA and frightened special employment coworkers.
It's easier to just not have those friends. In the long run it's way better for your health.
I work for an organization with employees and clients in multiple states. I bad mouth Chicago every chance I get to discourage them from visiting and spending money here. Covid proved that Chicago needs the suburbs more than the suburbs need Chicago.
Good. I hope they continue to be victims of crime from the savages they support. You a democrat and a crime victim...IDGAF then.
Maybe one of the local rags can do a story on how much these youthful activists cost the city in lost convention money. " This town..is turning to a ghost town..." The Specials
you buy, i fly.
Wow! You showed them!!
The inability of the police, as a result of body cameras to dispense a well deserved wood shampoo is paying bad dividends today. Yeah they were running to beat the gun case or hot car, but what really inspired them was the vision of the beat down they were in for when caught. The “discipline” that was supposed to be administered by a “parent”. You refuse to do it, we will
demarginalization of the marginalized communities!
More programs for da community!
Why those cops gots to be so mean?
I think he is referring to minors.
Some rapper needs to remake Starship's "We Built This City" except "on rock 'n roll" he needs to say "on guns and drugs".
My GOD, what happened to my old beat 1834. To bad.
It is a shame.
I hear tell that back in "the bad old days" it was fairly common for cops to let an "over exuberant youth" go with a mild ass kicking provided they were not a frequent flyer.
This gave the youth a chance to reconsider the path they were on.
If they decided that getting your ass beat really sucks and they got on the path of righteousness they would not have a criminal record following them.
Now you can't touch the "poor dears", you are barely allowed to return fire.
Employers don't ask about criminal records and these shitheads are not looking for work.
So she deserves to get shot is your logic genuis?
We need more peace circle jerks for the youths.
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