CHICAGO — A petition urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to support an 8 p.m. curfew for unaccompanied minors in the downtown area has gained over 3,000 signatures as of midday Friday. But there are no signs that Johnson plans to change his mind.
Two people, including a tourist, were shot during separate “large group” incidents in Streeterville last month, leading residents and their alderman to call for an earlier curfew. Charges were filed this week in connection with the tourist shooting.
“I can’t understate the corrosive effects of these violent takeovers,” Ald. Brian Hopkins said in a Thursday evening interview on Chicago Tonight. “Hundreds of people running up and down the streets, robbing from the convenience stores, harming people.”…