That’s why there are no announcements of scheduled road closures or bus reroutes released weeks ahead as would happen if these evening street events were official events. This EVENING street takeovers/celebrations are not official events. The disruptions have become part of the festivities, and now government officials are afraid that any movement to control or dissuade the worst of the activities would be considered an attack or a suppression on the culture, which would likely result in a much worse situation. It is a form of a protest, akin to tens of thousands taking to the streets, but instead of angry protesters, it is sort of like “happy rioters”.īecause of the culturally significance of the overall weekend celebrations, it becomes a difficult situation to police. The city can’t just specify an area or warden off certain streets for this event, because that would defeat the whole purpose. The spectacle of it draws more and more participants.ĭisrupting the established infrastructure is part of it, and this wouldn’t work without it. It works because of a type of group “riot” mentality, where the number of participants emboldens all of the individuals so they increasingly behave in ways that they wouldn’t otherwise. The randomness of it is part of the entertainment. They stop, gather, blockade huge areas without leaving any lanes open for travelers or emergency vehicles, and then just have a huge noisy boisterous party, sometimes with fireworks. If they were just driving around, it wouldn’t be fun. I have a steadily diminishing opinion of the current mayoral administration, and tonight's mess is another demonstration that Johnson is seemingly not a competent municipal administrator.
Managing it should be better than arbitrarily shutting down entire city sections and Chicago residents' access to their residences: We would have not left our home today at all had we known the city was likely to keep us from getting home. I know we're among the many, many people affected by this, and that this is an expected thing at this point. After a lot of looping around, we finally talked our way through at Roosevelt and Canal. No one (311/911/cops on the street) knew what anyone else was doing.
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No one knew what was going on: 311 and 911 could not tell us how to get to our residence, or even what options we had for returning there. Trying to get to our residence to get my child to bed, but blocked off at every entrance we tried to get to the Loop/South Loop. Rule 10: Crime-related posts that do not have a wider impact on the city will be removed Rule 9: Buying/Selling/Giveaway posts, and posts looking for roommates/housing or employment, are not allowed Articles about the same topic but from different sources are OK.
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