Federalist: Chicago suffered its most violent Sunday in 60 years with 18 murders on May 31, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab reported by the Chicago Sun-Times which only traces crime back to 1961.
The Midwestern city hit the somber milestone as another round of ruthless rioting hit the streets following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody which sparked the worst outbreak of nationwide civil unrest in decades.
Chicago saw seven murders between May 29-30, bringing the weekend total 25 making it the deadliest weekend in the city’s modern history, which had already struggled to shed an international reputation for its rampant crime, according to the Sun-Times.
As lawmakers confronted its latest epidemic of violence to grip the community, leaked audio from a May 31 conference call between the mayor and 50 alderman shows the meeting escalated into a profanity-laced shouting match. One alderman demanded answers on how the city was caught so unprepared and responded so poorly to riots, allowing businesses to go up in flames.
“When downtown is in lockdown, our neighborhoods are next, and our failure to fully get ready for what’s going on in the neighborhoods, we’re seeing this destruction, and we’re thinking that it’s going to somehow end tonight. We have seen where, in other cities, this has gone on for days; and we need to come up with a better plan for days, at least for the next five days, to try to stabilize our communities,” Alderman Raymond Lopez told Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. “Once they’re done looting and rioting and whatever’s going to happen tonight, God help us, what happens when they start going after residents? Going into neighborhoods?”
When Lightfoot tried to blow the alderman off with, “next question,” Lopez stopped her and demanded an answer.
–And that’s when it got ugly
*shoves Lopez into Lightfoot* lol!
Dodge City – 1939 – present day Chicago, right down to the ‘shooting’ at the end…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2GIirKPy6g
Stay classy, Chicago!
The only good things in Chicago were the Bulls under Jordan and the Chicago Blackhawks under Jonathan Toews #19 (Canuck) and Patrick Kane #88 (American).
nothing else to say.
@Kcir — Chicago style pizza is very good when done right.
Other than that, we’re on the same page!
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice and the mayor appeared with Kim Fox apologizing for not finding the white supremacists who attacked Juicy Smellit
Is the Hamburger Hamlet still up and running??? Or the Italian Village????
Best thing about Chicago right now?…..The Cubs are still tied for first place in the National league, but so are the Pirates and Mets…..GO PIRATES!!!
Gorgon Lightfoot is drooling for the chance for an actual Citizens Militia to rise up and protect a neighborhood.
Then she can bring the hammer down and round up everybody’s guns.
Everybody means Everybody except rioters and looters and criminals and gangs
A council of Black Lives Matters members need to take full control of Chicago…
Let’s see that works out for them. LMAO
Ms Lightfoot wears NAZI jack boots. What a bitch.
You didn’t build that, I did.
No way this crime wave has anything to do with releasing half the prison population because wuhan flu. It’s lack of funding and White people.
Chicago needs you give away more free stuff, and sponsor free Pizza days for less violence.
This won’t work either, but the city will spend more money and feel better because they. are “doing something”.
Darwinism.
We need to divide the nation and build a very tall wall between our new nation and the jungle we leave behind.
I bet that if Al Capone still ran Chicago there would be less violence. At least his victims were mostly criminals.
To think this is the city where I went to the Art Institute to take a class when I was a soph in HS. We met at the AI because we didn’t always catch the same South Shore. Then we two 15 year old girls roamed the city for a bit after classes before heading home. I really do miss the corrupt old daddy Daly and the previous corrupt mayors.
Yes Geoff, mafia just isn’t what it used to be.
Serious question: can a mayor be impeached?
The dims are sure trying to start a hot war. They aren’t getting anywhere now with international wars, and the devil needs blood on the ground. Abortion is no longer enough.
Showing the usual lack of self control maybe they thought they were in a movie theater.
One Last Time, yes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpmswBKVN4
“I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull d*kes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh*t-kickers and Methodists!“
Common street thugs making the mob look like pikers. Yeah, get rid of those cops and get the real party started.
Don’t believe your lying eyes. There is nothing to see here in Chicago. Move along, all is well, all is well. And if you disagree, well… wait for it…YOU ARE A RACIST!!!!!!!!
Bet you didn’t see that one coming. Heheheh
The kinda crazies are being driven mad by the really crazies who hate the kinda crazies for not being as crazy as the really crazies.
John. Bingo!
Well, at least the undertaking business is up, or was that burnt to the ground too?
The best quote to come out of this hissy-fit is summed up here:
“The future of USA cities is a gay hispanic male politician and a gay black female politician telling each other to go f*ck themselves as their city burns to the ground.”
– https://gab.com/Cleisthenes/posts/104316056011843210