Chicago is Bleeding
Rising crime is becoming a way of life for Chicago residents.
On Sunday night in Chicago’s world-famous Loop, theatre patrons there to see a Broadway production of Moulin Rouge were instead treated to another tragic episode in the ongoing violent crime drama that has come to define the Windy City over the past two years.
“On Sunday night, happy patrons were seated at the James M. Nederlander Theatre in Chicago’s Loop waiting for the start of a touring production of the Broadway musical ‘Moulin Rouge’, wrote the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board on Monday. “The theatre, say some who were there, was nicely filled. But just moments before the scheduled curtain time, an announcement was made from the stage that the show had been cancelled.”
“The reason,” the Editorial Board continued grimly, as if Chicagoans reading the article didn’t know already, “was a nearby shooting.”
According to Chicago Police and the Tribune- both of which sound as if they are describing the big, climactic shoot-out scene at the end of an old Wild West movie- the, “victims of a robbery opened fire on the perpetrators. But they instead hit two people whom the police called ‘unintended targets,’ which is code for being unfortunate enough to be standing in the alley outside the Chicago Theatre.”