Here are the latest updates as the situation unfolds in Chicago: Elected officials and Chicago community leaders took part in a news conference Monday, responding to the impact widespread looting has had on the city's neighborhoods.Several businesses in the city were damaged and more than 100 people were arrested following hours of looting and unrest in the overnight hours.During a Zoom discussion, Ald. Questions over whether a lack of consequences played a role in overnight looting and unrest surfaced as some cited the fact that Foxx's office declined to prosecute people associated with peaceful protesting as unrest led to looting and destruction earlier this summer. The ABC7 I-Team has obtained a social media post Chicago police believe may have sparked the looting downtown, possibly in response to a police-involved shooting in Englewood.Storefronts were shattered, display cases were empty, and downtown Chicago business owners were left to clean up and rebuild for the second time this summer.Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Supt. The Apple store at North Avenue and Clybourn Avenue was also looted.Looting continues this morning.
Looting and property damage has been reported throughout downtown Chicago overnight, with property damage reported along Michigan Avenue and in the Loop and Gold Coast areas. Foxx is up for re-election in November, and her critics are pouncing as she faces tough questions over how she’s handled people who are arrested during looting in late May.
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“There is no justification,” Mayor Lightfoot said.
Metra said each of its four downtown stations were running as normal. "The unrest began at around 12:20 a.m., when police Looters were captured on video in multiple locations, with merchandise taken and storefronts vandalized. According to Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications, CTA was restoring service just after 7:15 a.m. and the Chicago Department of Transportation bridges and expressway ramps downtown would be reopening.
CHICAGO -- Chicago police officers exchanged gunfire with someone early Monday morning amid widespread looting and violence in the Loop. Asked later whether the city would ask for federal assistance in addressing any potential looting in the future, Lightfoot said they would not ask for troops to be sent to Chicago.“This is not an incident that requires the National Guard. CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx faced criticism from downtown business owners, the police superintendent and her political rivals Monday over her approach to prosecuting people arrested during unrest in Chicago. "This was not an organized protest rather than this was an incident of pure criminality," Brown said. Additionally, someone threw a brick at a CPD cruiser, shattering its windows. CHICAGO — Hundreds of looters targeted businesses in the Mag Mile and River North areas late Sunday into early Monday, clearing out stores as 100 people were arrested and 13 police officers injured during skirmishes throughout the night.SWAT team members with rifles descended on Garfield Park near Madison and Karlov Monday afternoon after more reports of looting, and an officer was injured.CPD Superintendent David Brown said social media posts following Police said a 20-year-old man matching the description of a suspect ran from officers when they tried to interview him Sunday afternoon, and officers returned fire after he fired at them while fleeing. Video taken in Chicago’s Gold Coast shows looters hitting a business and the aftermath of smashed windows and empty shelves. Widespread Damage Reported as Looting and Chaos Erupt in Downtown Chicago The unrest began at around 12:20 a.m., when police were called to reports of a mob scene on Michigan Avenue . Several street closures remained in effect throughout the area, however.
More images of looting and damage around Chicago June 1, 2020 CWBChicago Citywide Sunday brought more reports of looting throughout Chicago, including within the downtown zone that is closed off to people who don’t live or work essential jobs within its boundaries. As of 7:30 a.m., previously raised downtown bridges were expected to come back down, except for La Salle and Lake Shore Drive, officials said. In a notice, City Hall employees were told to work from home Monday "due to restricted access to downtown."