'In 55 years, I’ve never seen it like this in Chicago,' the city's leading FBI official said.
, and city officials laid out a series of plans Friday that they say would prevent future incidents.
Lightfoot said the city's police department would be creating a"specialized, 20-person unit" to monitor open-sourced social media posts for any signs of"suspicious activity." A separate task force in partnership with the FBI would be focused on looting activity, she said. The city is also developing a plan for faster geographic lockdowns, building more ballasts and concrete barriers, and will continue to free up resources from the city's sanitation and transportation departments for use by police officers. Lightfoot encouraged businesses downtown and across the city to report criminal activity through a hotline.
Parts of Lake Shore Drive, expressway ramps and CTA stops downtown would be closed, and all downtown bridges would be up, the Office of Emergency Management and Communications said.
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