Safety in downtown Chicago is paramount for Thanksgiving weekend events
CHICAGO -- The next few days will be packed with people enjoying holiday festivities on Thanksgiving weekend—but there remains a question as to whether they feel safe amid the recent violence in downtown Chicago.It was cold out Wednesday night, but thousands were already out roaming the streets of Chicago and getting out for the holidays.
—the gunshots had people ducking behind concrete barriers at Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza and running for cover outside the CBS Chicago Broadcast Center.'Sometimes it does deter us from coming down here,' Amiyah Ford of Forest Park said of downtown and crime.But while Ford remains mindful of the crime, she also practices another method.'Pray before you go out and leave the house too,' Ford said.
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