Chicago's top cop says violence is spreading to downtown as it declines in hardest-hit neighborhoods

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown is pledging to send more officers into the downtown area, following three shootings near high-profile locations over the weekend.

at State and Lake streets when a group tried to rob another group inside.

Those two victims reportedly work as stagehands at the nearby Nederlander Theater, which is why Sunday night's performance of "Moulin Rouge' was canceled without explanation.Superintendent Brown blames the spike in downtown crime on what he calls "displacement," saying success in fighting crime in other neighborhoods has sent some criminals downtown.

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