The Loop was open this morning but hard to get to.
The police made all the cars exit Lake Shore Drive at Fullerton. Stockton Drive was open down to North Ave. LaSalle Street was blocked at Division Street by large city trucks. Clark, Wells and Franklin were blocked by trucks too. Halsted was open. I made my way over to Kinzie but the bridge was blocked by snow plows. I had to walk over the Kinzie Bridge.
All the bridges were up except the LaSalle Street bridge. I crossed and made my way east on Wacker to State and Lake, the apparent center of the mayhem last evening. There we broken windows here and there. The was some serious looting and destruction at the 7/11 at Lake and Dearborn. The shelves were bulled down. The instant lottery ticket machine was pushed over and vandalized. The ATM was smashed apart and liberated of its contents.
There were very few policemen around at 0830 plenty of board-up guys and spectators doing their work.
I don’t know what to make of this time in our lives. A global pandemic has killed over a one-hundred thousand people. Businesses have mostly been shuttered for two and a half months. A policeman murders a black man on video. There is rioting in the streets. And Donald Trump is president. What the hell is going on?
