Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Downtown Shooting

  • A man was shot downtown Monday afternoon just south of the Chicago River near Michigan Avenue, police said.

    The 33-year-old man shot near Garland Court and Lower Wacker Place just about drove to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the stomach, police said. He was in good condition Monday evening, according to police.

    The shooting happened just before 3 p.m. in the 200 block of North Garland Court, which is close to the Hard Rock Hotel sits, and East Wacker Place and South Water Street. The man was in a vehicle when a man fired shots from nearby, police said. The victim was not cooperating with investigators.

    Chicago Police squad cars were used to block off intersections along the lower level of areas heavily populated by hotels and tourists. Traffic was light, and there wasn't a queue of vehicles, despite the closures.
If someone got shot in Times Square, it'd be all over the national news. But here? It's expected.

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64 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Victim not cooperating with investigators? Really? Probably just another criminal rather than a victim.

7/11/2017 12:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Victim not cooperating with investigators??? Take your trashy hood rat ass back to the hood and stay there. Can't even enjoy the lakefront during the summer because it's been invaded by the shit heads. Fuck you and your community activism. People are dying and it's the police who need the reform. So sick of this fucking city.

7/11/2017 12:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This does not sound like an innocent tourist shooting. It sounds somehow related to gangs, drugs criminals etc. You average tourist is more likely to be struck by lightening or run over by a vehicle downtown then then they are to be shot. It's safe folks.

7/11/2017 12:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this the second or third in that area?

7/11/2017 12:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did anyone noticed the article about John Arena and his upcoming court date? It appears that this Alderman needs de-escalation training. "Yo, Eddie tell your buddy to de-escalate" Someone please give that Arena guy the application to become a cop, he wants to be the police! https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170710/irving-park/alderman-assaulted-john-arena-limo-driver-joseph-alvarez-irving-park-entrance-ramp-parking

7/11/2017 12:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not sure how you can compare Times Square with LowerWacker and Garland?! Only thing you can catch on lower south water is steel reserve, rock cocaine, herron, or hep C. The bust outs down there are straight up nasty! Now if you had said shooting at Millennium Park.... oh wait, that happened last summer.

7/11/2017 12:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off Topic:
Kim Foxx is following her puppet master's lead: Kim says if the pop tax isn't implemented she's going to have to lay off attorneys.
Boo hoo Kim. What about cutting some of your bloated, top heavy staff??

7/11/2017 03:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wondering if special ed is going to treat all possible hires the same as the kid originally charged with some bullshit hate crime while away at college. Charges dropped and only Simple battery conviction. He wants courts to Barr hiring the fella. Sure hope this action is dispensed equally to all possible hires. It's a simple battery conviction ed. You sure you want to do this when advised otherwise. $$$$

7/11/2017 05:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bad dope deal that went bad case closed

7/11/2017 05:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Piss poor writing. Not a journalist. More like a high school kid playing reporter.

7/11/2017 06:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many Rahmicides do we have in Chicago so far this year?

7/11/2017 06:13:00 AM  
Blogger 30 pending and what said...

LETTERS: Are we asking too much of the Police Department?

LETTERS 07/10/2017, 01:41pm

Interesting reading by sun times but its been said many times here. Just odd that they would print.

7/11/2017 06:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No one cares. Its all the police fault.
Just film another movie.

7/11/2017 06:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic- Nightlife In Downtown Sunday Yo Thursday

Stay away from the downtown night club/night life scene Sunday to Thursday. A few places sponsor "urban nights". Friday and Saturdays are good.
You would be surprised to see how many people are up to no good.

7/11/2017 06:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What kind of "man"?

7/11/2017 06:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I watched The WGN news at 9pm and channel 5 news at 10 neither reported this shooting. It's all legit. Each ran several minutes of the arraignment of three policeman and gave that pos pfleger air time.

7/11/2017 06:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/are-we-asking-too-much-of-the-police-department/


The police are not miracle workers; they are police. Their primary training and function is to serve and protect people in the city of Chicago. Instead, our society expects the police to be responsible for that over which they have no control. We put the police in a no-win situation and then blame them when they fail. They will never succeed in their core mission because we have expanded their mission far beyond its original and logical scope.

7/11/2017 06:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love you SCC, but LOWER Wacker is not Times Square. Not even close,

I get what you're saying here, and I agree downtown is going to hell, but this is a really weak analogy.... one that falls apart when you look at it...

7/11/2017 07:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To OT, re: kim foxx: she shouldn't have to cut her budget, just lay off the entire felony division since she won't prosecute shit anyway.

7/11/2017 07:30:00 AM  
Blogger Jack Trumpblood said...

Steel Reserve kicks ASS!

7/11/2017 07:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tucker Carlson Destroys Chicago Activist Afraid of Trump Supporters: An Illegal Alien Killed the Muslim Girl “Bad Example!” (VIDEO)


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/epic-tucker-carlson-destroys-chicago-activist-afraid-trump-supporters-illegal-alien-killed-muslim-girl-bad-example-video/


7/11/2017 07:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago 'Antifa' Plans to Open 'Self-Defense Gym' to Fight 'White Nationalism' in Trump's 'AmeriKKKa'

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/07/10/antifa-self-defense-gym-opens-chicago-tucker-carlson

According to Heat Street, the Haymaker Collective, which is said to be named after an 1880s anarchist riot, plans to open the gym to let their members train for any impending scuffles.

However, the outlet reported that the training regimen is anything but aggressive.

"A lot of people think that when you learn to fight, it's all about being aggressive and learning how to go start street fights with people," an Antifa member told Heat Street.

The group said the gym will be a place to fight the "heteronormative" and "masculine" culture of gyms in the United States.

The gym's prospective members hope to fight the "alt-right" and "white nationalism" they see in what they called "Donald Trump's Amerikkka (sic)."

7/11/2017 07:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sure it's safe.
Rahm and FatHeadEd say crime is down.... they' wouldn't lie would they??

7/11/2017 08:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Scc would you be so kind as to put out a reminder that the trial for the murder of Police Officer Clifton Lewis
Is going on in Court room 206. Yesterday was first day and we need to show a little more support.
Thank you

7/11/2017 08:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmmmm...a tourist that won't cooperate with the police after getting shot, is not likely the kind of "tourist" Chicago needs more of.

J.J.

7/11/2017 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In Summary, Heard Shots, Felt Pain...Victim uncooperative, Case Suspended

7/11/2017 08:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Read the tribune article. The shooting is down-played throughout, and, of course, no comment section.

7/11/2017 08:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kim Foxx is following her puppet master's lead: Kim says if the pop tax isn't implemented she's going to have to lay off attorneys.
Boo hoo Kim. What about cutting some of your bloated, top heavy staff??

7/11/2017 03:17:00 AM

They got their jobs through politics.
They can lose them through politics.

7/11/2017 09:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That gibberish quoted was from the Trib? Good heavens, authentic urban frontier gibberish!
English as an occasional language.

7/11/2017 09:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: dept is now requiring ISRs for ANOVs and traffic citations? Wtf is going on. Sounds a bit extreme just to pacify the bleeding hearts and a sneaky way to boost ISR numbers. Who comes up with this shit!!??

7/11/2017 09:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This gangbanger drives himself to Northwestern and gets treated.
Meanwhile, hardworking people hesitate to go to the ER because they are afraid of the cost of deductibles, copays, and if NW takes their health insurance.
If hospitals refused service to gangbangers, health care costs would probably go down.

7/11/2017 09:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The victim was not cooperating with investigators."

Good for him. Let him die. Time to pack up and go home.

7/11/2017 09:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

12:16 AM

TO: The damn fools at the Chicago Dept. of Tourism

A shout-out for your pathetic attempt to bullshit us on the "safety" of downtown Chicago.

Are you in cahoots with those grifters at the Illinois Dept. of Tourism that sponsor that repugnant TV commercial touting the "joys" of Illinois?

7/11/2017 10:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
This does not sound like an innocent tourist shooting. It sounds somehow related to gangs, drugs criminals etc. You average tourist is more likely to be struck by lightening or run over by a vehicle downtown then then they are to be shot. It's safe folks.

7/11/2017 12:16:00 AM

Numbnuts,
True, but their accuracy isn't exactly stellar. Firing 6 rounds on average with only 1 hitting the target. Where did the other 5 go? That's what SCC is talking about by bringing the kids (sarcasm) to downtown. The cancer has spread due to the ACLU, BLM, and whatever else we've been spouting off sounding the alarms on the various blogs for awhile now. Kill the messenger, that's why they try tooth & nail to shut down these blogs spreading the only real truth you'll read about in this city. Maybe you need to pull your head out of your ass & cancel that subscription already.
Do you want your loved one to be one of those 5 stray rounds? What'd you say liberals? Would a tax on each round stopped this shooting? Lol losers. Or would that affect who the most? That's right , the law abiding citizen.

We love this city as much as the next guy. But it's a shame what has happened to it.

7/11/2017 10:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Lionel Hutz said...

The urban guerrilla war in Chicago continues. Watch your six.

OT: To see what we're up against watch the video posted on July 10th at World Star Hip Hop of the 6-year old packing a pistol and muthaf***ing the camera-man at 64th and Halsted (or look it up at Gateway Pundit and read those comments). You might need subtitles to understand the entire conversation if you haven't worked the ghetto in awhile...but every copper will recognize the Black Disciple lingo and those death stares from these sociopathic "little Folk".

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhgv2vCAiPgV8v2G3D

7/11/2017 10:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Downtown. Buckingham Fountain. River North.
Doesn't matter to the feral urban predator.
There's just no stopping the angry culture.
This is the normal behavior that's been allowed to expand and flourish under Rahm Emanuel - mayor of Murder Capital Sanctuary USA and also the Cook County Criminal-Friendly Logistics & Distribution Center, maintained by race-baiters Porkwrinkle & Fxxxx.


Looky here:

RahmsKids Sah-side Shortay Armed Robbery Krew?
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/shock-child-caught-walking-around-chicagos-south-side-gun-video/

7/11/2017 11:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if you don't cooperate with investigations after injury from a crime, than NO FREE HEALTH CARE and AMBULANCE ride to the hospital..

7/11/2017 12:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A man was shot on Wacker Place? Ya just can't make this shit up.
As for the not cooperating factor, I have an idea.
No cooperation on the policing level ought to earn no cooperation on the medical treatment level. How about a "you do me a solid and I then do you a solid" kind of thing. You tell me who shot you and then you can get fixed up - on someone else's dime. That's the deal...ya got to pay for services rendered.

Lack of cooperation ought to be met with lack of cooperation.
Choices have consequences.

7/11/2017 12:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know the "bring the kids" thing is tongue-in-cheek. But considering that we have 6-8 yr old armed robbers running around, bringing the kids could be the same as a bodyguard :-)

7/11/2017 12:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC, I need some advice: How many months am I allowed to call my girlfriend my "fiancé" without marrying her before people realize I was just trying to illegitimately elevate her to some respectable status in the same way I illegitimately elevated her rank? -EJ

7/11/2017 01:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Just about dove" himself to the hospital? What the fuck does that mean? He drove himself or he didn't.

The newspapers these days are pathetic.

7/11/2017 02:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sadly yes sir.
Becoming accustomed to violence and death
is the back drop to visiting/living here.

7/11/2017 02:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

off topic did fop , pbpa , ipra , IG , times , trib follow up on rumor a recruit is in police academy without military , 60 college credits . recruit might have cps preference for appointment which means recruit jumped over qualified recruit candidates maybe special ed could request IAD to look into this , recruit investigator should be disciplined unless follow orders from a superior

7/11/2017 02:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You pay downtown prices for ghetto theater?🤔 No thanks

7/11/2017 03:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ald Arena gets into a beef with a limo slug and the aldermutt calls the 017 DC personally and gets first class treatment. Can Joe Citizen call the DC and get same treatment?♠️

7/11/2017 05:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Phat Phil,

Between your pension and the money you are immorally taking from the CPMF, you are getting $300+K a year plus a car.

How many vests are you buying for the troops? It disgusts me to see you begging on TV when you should be leading by example.

What do you have with PHAT PHIL, J-FLED, G-MACK, shortshanks and TD 9.5 all at one location?

A convention of assholes.

7/11/2017 05:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not cooperating eh? That area under ground is typical for the rats to drag race, do their drug deals, drink and fight. GTFOH and go back to Englewood ya POS.

7/11/2017 05:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

recruit investigator should be disciplined unless follow orders from a superior

7/11/2017 02:30:00 PM

Aren't the background investigators now all non-city employees, many being retired coppers, who are employed by a contracted agency owned by Terry Hillard?

7/11/2017 06:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

cherp cherp cherp. the media coverage

7/11/2017 06:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-gang-database-immigrant-met-20170711-story.html

Only in Chicago can an illegal gang member sue CPD and actually win. Sad day we live in. Trump what's takin so damn long! Get these fucks out of our city.

7/11/2017 06:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
SCC, I need some advice: How many months am I allowed to call my girlfriend my "fiancé" without marrying her before people realize I was just trying to illegitimately elevate her to some respectable status in the same way I illegitimately elevated her rank? -EJ

I think Harold Washington was engaged from the time he was 35 until he died about 35 years later. Mary Ella was still waiting when he doubled over in his office. Corp Counsel Judson Miner thought he was tying his shoes.

7/11/2017 06:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
OT: dept is now requiring ISRs for ANOVs and traffic citations? Wtf is going on. Sounds a bit extreme just to pacify the bleeding hearts and a sneaky way to boost ISR numbers. Who comes up with this shit!!??

7/11/2017 09:38:00 AM

And you are not required to produce ANOV's or Traffic Citations. Ya'know...the whole No Quota under state Law thing.


I'd think the Quotas are Illegal thing could be used to justify a decrease in ISR #'s.

Use the Parker book. If they start to demand ISR's for Parkers....you can sue since Finance doesn't do ISR's for every ticket they write. CDOT doesn't do ISR's if they write a ticket. Buildings doesn't....etc...

ISR's are BS. Just do a Contact card.

7/11/2017 07:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cops Turn Backs On Mayor De Blasio At Officer Miosotis Familia’s Funeral.

When will CPD do the same?

7/11/2017 07:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1:58 pm. Always confused me about the " fiancée" bullsh.t. Just trying to legitimize fake life's.

7/11/2017 08:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not cooperating? Let that motherfucker bleed out then.
Give the rat the hospital bill.

7/11/2017 08:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
In Summary, Heard Shots, Felt Pain...Victim uncooperative, Case Suspended

7/11/2017 08:52:00 AM

Many a case has been submitted with even less than this investigative line until some brilliant downtown merit hack supervisor decided that the "victim" may had self inflicted his own injury...

7/11/2017 08:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT..... Well it happened. The aviation police have been de-certified. Looks like the rumors abound were true and all the can't happens were in fact wrong.

7/11/2017 08:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No need to worry the 001 bum cars got lower locked down...until 1230, then good luck citizens.

7/11/2017 09:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm a cop in New York. My daughter is looking at law schools. She wants to visit the u of Chicago law school in the fall. Can anyone suggest a nice hotel for our stay. I would like to do some sightseeing, Sears tower, wrigglleyChicago art institute. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Bill

7/11/2017 12:08:00 AM

None. Go somewhere else. Including your daughter. Nowhere is safe. If you value your life and the life of your daughter you'll listen.

7/11/2017 05:46:00 AM

Bill,

Are you and your daughter ultra-liberal? If so, you both probably accept crime victimization as the price paid to "enjoy" diversity and a diverse lifestyle. If you would not experience anguish over her car continually being ticketed and towed, her car and/or living accommodations being "burglarized" over and over, her being robbed and possibly beaten or worse, much, much worse all the way up to, and including, the ultimate of victimization, come on over!

However, if your daughter or you expect safety to accompany the huge tuition you will be paying, stay away. While the Hyde Park neighborhood is very nice and diverse, it is the visitors from the surrounding neighborhoods who are most of the culprits. The Hyde Park neighborhood and the U of C are surrounded like Fort Apache, the Bronx.

You very well might have some people tell you it is wonderful here, tell you I have never had a problem when I take the red line "L" or the green line "L", tell you the crime and safety issues are both blown out of proportion and they could very well be telling the truth from their perspective and experiences, but it is unlikely or, at the very least, very far from the norm. While the downtown, the museums, the lakefront and the food are all very nice and can be enjoyed until the visiting culprits are looking for a victim, Chicago as a whole is truly a very odd place for the uninitiated. I am a lifelong resident and I implore you to go someplace a little less odd.

Wherever she attends, in this day and age, you know being a cop that she has to be street-smart and have her head on a swivel. She cannot have her head in the clouds or throw caution to the wind. As always, the alert, the vigilant and the cautious are less-likely to become a victim.

7/11/2017 10:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hey Phat Phil,

Between your pension and the money you are immorally taking from the CPMF, you are getting $300+K a year plus a car.

How many vests are you buying for the troops? It disgusts me to see you begging on TV when you should be leading by example.

What do you have with PHAT PHIL, J-FLED, G-MACK, shortshanks and TD 9.5 all at one location?

A convention of assholes.

7/11/2017 05:24:00 PM

$160,000 from the CPMF. Talk about using wounded officers for your own selfish interests.

7/11/2017 10:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Harold Washington was engaged from the time he was 35 until he died about 35 years later. Mary Ella was still waiting when he doubled over in his office. Corp Counsel Judson Miner thought he was tying his shoes.
7/11/2017 06:59:00 PM

My guess is she was pretty sure early on they were not getting married. Call it a hunch.

7/11/2017 11:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Always confused me about the " fiancée" bullshit. Just trying to legitimize fake life's.

Chicago has had a deep history with the b.s. fiancee 1st you had Harold mirth and girth, Then you had Oprah. when she was upset about Steadman sleeping with the hair dresser it werent no female stylist.

Of course they could have gone full beard like the mayor and the former pres. and we would have to deal with this fiancee bullshit in the first place right Ed?

7/12/2017 12:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Lionel Hutz said...

I'm a cop in New York. My daughter is looking at law schools. She wants to visit the u of Chicago law school in the fall. Can anyone suggest a nice hotel for our stay. I would like to do some sightseeing, Sears tower, wrigglleyChicago art institute. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Bill
******************************************************

I would look elsewhere. However, if you have the plane tickets booked already stay at the Hyatt McCormick Place or the Intercontinental Chicago. You're still kinda far from U of C Hyde Park but consider that a safe distance. Hyde Park and the campus are dangerous at night. Hell, try not to stroll around anywhere in this city after 10pm. Only take cabs or Uber and stay away from public transportation. Check out the Art Institute and the Field Museum. The River-Walk and Millennium Park are nice but crowded after 5pm. Sears (Willis) Tower is ok but the John Hancock has better views. For good food check out Flo & Santos or Davanti Enoteca. If you can, just walk into the 18th or 12th District police stations or the Chicago FOP Gift Shop, tell them you're the police and get some more info. Good luck and stay safe!

7/12/2017 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bang bang

7/12/2017 06:13:00 PM  

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