Chicago Mayor Lightfoot is calling on parents: 'You need to make sure you understand what your young people are doing. Who they are with and where they are going.'
"Today I’m signing an executive order to move the curfew back on weekends to 10 p.m.," Lightfoot announced."It's extremely distressing to learn that pre-teens, as young as ten or eleven, 12-years-old, have been coming downtown by themselves at night," Lightfoot said. "That's simply not smart and it's definitely not safe.""You need to make sure you understand what your young people are doing.
But 15th Ward Alderman and mayoral candidate Raymond Lopez accused the mayor of playing whack-a-mole. "Clearly we need a strategy and all the mayor is doing today is trying to find cover," said Lopez. "We need a citywide strategy to address this. Because if you squeeze here, crime's gonna go over here."
The downtown crime appears to be having an economic impact. Chicago hotels right now are running at just 57-percent occupancy, the lowest rate of any major American city. "For us in the hotel industry, we were really excited for this summer and the recovery it was going to help us bring from the pandemic," said Michael Jacobson, president of the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association. "And I think crime and public safety could almost single handedly undercut the recovery we planned for this summer.""You need to make sure you understand what your young people are doing. Who they are with and where they are going," Lightfoot said.
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