Four people were arrested during a “teen takeover” in Hyde Park on Saturday night.
Beginning at around 8 p.m., upward of 50 teenagers arrived on 53rd Street. A heavy police presence was already in place in anticipation of the event, with dozens of patrol cars parked between South Woodlawn Avenue and South Lake Park Avenue. At least two helicopters were also spotted in the area.
Officers began taking people into custody around 9:30 p.m. At 10:07 p.m., police were seen handcuffing teenagers and putting them in the back of a van outside of Capital One Café on South Harper Avenue. A Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer at the scene told the Maroon that police were enforcing the city’s 10 p.m. youth curfew in the area…