Shootings downtown last weekend, including one outside a major theater that canceled its evening performance, captured most of the attention from the media and city leaders despite continuing issues in Chicago neighborhoods.
People walk in the Loop on May 2, 2022, the day after a 27-year-old man and 55-year-old man were shot near a theater. According to police, six men were engaged in a drug deal inside a downtown taco restaurant when one of the men robbed three others. All six fled the business and one of the victims fired shots, striking the two bystanders.
“Chicagoans feel like they own the Loop,” said Bill Savage, who has taught Chicago literature and culture for 30 years at Northwestern University. “If the center of our city experiences this kind of violence, it hits everybody in a way. If it’s happening in the Loop, it is about you.” The citywide violence has already led to pledges from mayoral candidates to remove Chicago police Superintendent David Brown if they are elected, with those Lightfoot opponents citing a lack of strategy to address the violence.
Lightfoot spoke about the difficult task of dealing with years of unaddressed violence in certain Chicago neighborhoods. “I have lived in this neighborhood for 32 years. It has never been like this. I used to walk everywhere,” Gershbein said. “How do you give people a sense of safety?” Two women from the North Lawndale neighborhood were shot by a man during an argument on the street. One of the women, 26, later died.
A Chicago police vehicle activates its lights near the Nederlander Theatre in the Loop the day after a 27-year-old man and 55-year-old man were shot in the area.
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