A downtown alderman is urging Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling to immediately shut down a Gold Coast nightclub after an overnight shooting left four people injured on the Division Street nightlife strip early Friday.
“Reports indicate that the shooters were targeting a particular individual or group of individuals patronizing Gold Coast Social located at 7 West Division Street,” Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) told constituents in an email on Friday morning.
The shooting occurred around 3:48 a.m. near the intersection of State and Dearborn streets, an iconic nightlife district that has been drawing revelers for decades. More than 30 Chicago cops, mostly probationary officers, were already deployed nearby when gunmen opened fire from a moving vehicle…