Chicago neighborhood pleads with city to do more about crime
CHICAGO -- City leaders and residents in the West Town community are calling on the Mayor's office to do more to tackle violent crime.Ald. Gilbert Villegas held a rally with community activists Wednesday. Villegas said he has seen a direct correlation between the uptick in crime with the closure of the Wood Street police station – and he is calling on Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling to reopen the station, or to create satellite offices near Chicago and Ashland avenues.
'Now I don't know what to do about my son and our neighborhood,' said one woman, who said a group of thieves who held up her son at knifepoint. 'I want him to have a child that's safe – and we can't.'Another woman said she was targeted by armed robbers while pregnant. She said four men exited a vehicle – one with a semiautomatic weapon and the other with a handgun, both pointed at her.
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