At 2:51 a.m., citizens reported shots fired near West Wilson Avenue and North Broadway.
A subsequent 911 call indicated drugs were also being sold on the corner of Wilson and Clifton.
Citing police communications, eyewitnesses said one of the seven to eight black males loitering in the area fired approximately ten shots at passengers waiting on the Wilson “L” platform at 4620 North Broadway.
After the shooting, the gunman and his accomplices ran southbound behind Truman College, said police.
No injuries were reported.
More North Side gunfire:
In Edgewater, shots were reported on the 6000 block of North Sheridan Road, between Glenlake and Thorndale, around 3:17 a.m.
Construction workers at the CTA Thorndale Red Line station, 1118 West Thorndale Avenue, heard the shots, but they didn't see anything, said police.
Blacks loitering around Wilson have always been a problem. The area always looks tawdry as a result. Can't the police move these worthless welfare recipients away from these loitering spots?
ReplyDeleteYou're right. As far back as I can remember, the Wilson and Broadway area has always been a problem; and over the years, it's gotten progressively worse.
ReplyDeleteIf Uptown ever turns around, it won't be in our lifetime.
"Anonymous", Perhaps you could separate your emotional dislike for "blacks" from the fact that anyone loitering late at night despite their economic status is not a good thing. And when did worthless and welfare become synonymous with each other? Rude!!!
ReplyDeleteThe worthless welfare jungle savage nigs in that area are the perfect example of why no decent white people want anything to do with them. They should all be gunned down like vermin along with the baby mamas who bore them and their corpses left in the street to rot.
ReplyDeleteMight as well tell everyone your fat girlfriend left you for a black guy and you got fired from your job as head chef at KFC. You're all talk but would never do anything in real life. Pathetic little keyboard warrior...
DeleteAnd what's he supposed to "do"?
DeletePeople on welfare who can work who don't are just as worthless as the racist nut jobs who blog here
ReplyDeletei was on this train
ReplyDeleteCool story bro
Delete"World Class".
ReplyDeleteIt's a given everytime you're on the Red Line it suddenly has to "run express" and they have to dump everybody off at that Wilson stop and wait for the next train. I almost think it's intentional and the CTA thinks it funny.
I had no problem at first when starting to utilize the CTA. I thought it was "convenient". Give it about a year, especially the Red Line. I told a Chicago native here to "just use the Red Line, it drops you off right 'there'". "H*LL NO", was his response.
In his 40's he lives in a crapshack efficiency apartment in that "up and coming" Uptown place just so he can afford a car. Not my style of living. Have it. Some of these people that live there don't even work in the city, they don't have a bike, don't utilize the lakefront, don't have a boat, don't go to the beach. I have to ask why they don't live in the suburbs and at least live age-appropriately. Convenient/easy access to drugs and sex here is the answer. In his case (and many others I know of), that is the reason.
It's unfortunate but the minute I hear Uptown, Rogers Park and, now, Edgewater, I have to immediately cut my ties. Not that where I live in this city (and am "judged" by it as well) is that much better.
Lots of monkey bizness at the Wilson because of that aweful Wilson Mens Club Hotel.
ReplyDeleteLots of "monkey bidness" because of the gay men there that know nothing but drugs, sex and $ too. They should really "broaden their horizons" and see how the rest of us live outside of Chicago. It's a shame they think all they are worth is Uptown squalor. Although I wasn't there, I'm sure that's all how "we" had to live back in the '40's.
ReplyDeleteI've tried to "uplift" some of them but it was fruitless.
@5:27pm
ReplyDelete"why" "do" "you" "use" "so" "many" "quotes"
are you just that stupid?
^ Just re-quoting Chicago's "buzzwords" that I've heard over and over and over again by "you people".
ReplyDeleteWhat is he supposed to do? Get help for the "Peter Pan Syndrome" that is so abundant amongst the gay men here.
the 911 people contribute to this nonsense by doing this crazy arrest dance where they go up to crack heads on wilson and ask them to buy a 10 dollars worth of crack.... this is been going on for several years but this is all I really wanna say about this topic. the police know the wilson area is not getting any better. the best thing you could possibly get out of this is to not buy a f****** condo in this area
ReplyDeleteBut Uptown has terra cotta! And falcons! And moldy old bookstores! And limping, wheezing alcoholics who can't read!!! And prissy homos!!
ReplyDeleteThe SOUL TRAIN..beware brother beware on the SOUL TRAIN!
ReplyDeleteDoes CTA President Forrest Claypool ever ride the Soul Train?
ReplyDeleteThe comment by "Barry" at 8:42 am is a typical response from a black. He's more worried about anyone who might point out who is doing all this rather than being against the crime itself. We all know the facts about the black welfare undertow in the neighborhood. But, don't say it out loud.
ReplyDeleteCrime is holding us hostage in this city. We have to fear for our safety every day &every where we venture out or even in our own homes. We are so fearful to make sure we are so PC, that we do not hurt minorities feelings, & yet they have no problem jacking us!
ReplyDelete"Barry" is just another uppity nig. Hopefully another nig will kill him too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, you are
ReplyDelete"Still a virgin"
"Doesn't know how that works"
"Frighten children"
"Haven't bathed in a month"
"Can't think for themself"
"Use quotes around everything"
Are "obsessive compulsive"
Are a "annoying fucktard"
"Barry" is not "just another uppity nig"; he happens to be a respectable black man who is making a positive contribution to his community, unlike a lot of you ignorant racists lurking around the comments section. For one, he had the balls to list his face and his name, unlike a lot of you cowards on here, hiding behind your keyboards. For another, he made the only valid, intelligent, and literate response on here. Pretty impressive for the only black man in the room!
ReplyDeleteAgain, his point was quite valid that any of you posting here (or myself included) would be just as uptight if a bunch of young, sketchy white dudes were hanging on the corner engaging in drug transactions and intimidating law abiding citizens at 3am!
I have never felt uptight by a bunch of young white dudes. "Barry" posts his pic because all the nigs look alike...like zoo chimps...and nobody could pick one out of a line-up anyway. He doesn't have to worry about marauding gangs of whites attacking him. It's the whites who have to defend themselves against the chimp gangs.
ReplyDeleteBarry is right, we fucking need to shoot EVERYBODY sitting on milk crates or pissing on the windows of businesses around the Wilson El stop, regardless of color. While we're at it, board up the exits and entrances to Wilson's Men's hotel and hit it with a wrecking ball.
ReplyDeleteWhen that butterface Jew social worker from down the street comes around to bitch, offer to slap her fat titties around, then eat some bacon and kiss her.
Some of us who come to this site appreciate that it informs us of crime stories that you don't see on the mainstream news. But that doesn't mean that all of us are here to swap stories about hanging blacks from the rafters, and how much we wish we could go back to the days of slavery when things were so great! You have every right to be a backwards, redneck hillbilly with your attitudes and beliefs, but is there any chance of keeping to a minimum the barely suppressed desire for a KKK rally seen in the comments?
ReplyDeleteSome of us have friends of every race, including blacks, but are still concerned about the level of crime. Yes, there seems to be a disproportionate amount of crime committed by blacks. No, that does not mean that every black is a criminal, nor an apologist for criminal behavior. Ladies and gentlemen, if any of you actually exist on this site, can we ratchet it down a few notches please? Maybe discuss some possible practical solutions, rather than just bemoaning the problem and spouting racial hatred.
@ anon 7:52: Thank you! In a big city like Chicago, crime seems to be a black or brown thing, but in fact, as it is just about anywhere, it's a class thing. The sooner we stop staring through a racial lens to view these issues, the sooner we might be able to effectively analyze the problem we're facing and then deal out some solutions. Racism is just about the laziest default position for approaching any issue.
ReplyDeleteOh please, as crime by minorities grows exponentially worse and worse, you granola nut crunch mudsharking liberal doucheholes keep telling us that we just need to give these brown and black people hugs and understanding.
ReplyDeleteYou are going to be an accessory in your own murder.
Sure anon 4:37, not having a completely myopic worldview means someone is a "mudsharking" appeaser.
ReplyDeleteTry checking out crime statistics that account for income. If you find poor people, you will find crime. Period. As most poor people in Chicago are black and brown, most crime is committed by black and brown people. It's pretty simple, even someone like you should be able to understand this equation.
No one is suggesting giving criminals a pass.
Most blacks I've known that are poor and honeless are because they refuse to do anything honest to take care of themselves.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as the sow that shit them out stops getting "da check", they kick them out.
Instead of looking for a job, they take to the streets shaking a cup or shaking people down for money. They have no concept of anything other than getting high and urban camping.
As well as the OCD "quotes" poster here, there are plenty of disgusting poor white people in Uptown with that same entitlement mentality. The community centers around there teach them socialism, they entice them to stupid political rallies with the promise of a peanut butter sandwich and a Caprisun, and these people are too sub-normally intelligent to understand the ramifications of what they are advocating for.
The whole lot of them I can just do without, and I do, unless I see one of them wandering around in those "gimme" shirts from one of the many rallies they go to.
I was the one who called 911. A bunch of kids were in the middle of the intersection shooting. I'm 100% positive that the Dutch boys that were up on the platform would have been a little more shook if they were getting fired at. They told the cops, who arrived after I called, that they saw a bunch of kids shooting while they were up on the platform but they never mentioned being shot at. Cops were nice though and they have done a pretty good job keeping the hoodrats down by the wilson stop and not allowing them to cause too much trouble past Truman. I hope that if it doesn't get any better it at least stays that way.
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