Lori Lightfoot will implement a 10 p.m. weekend curfew for minors in an attempt to reduce crime after a teenager was shot and killed at Millennium Park over the weekend.
Lightfoot had already announced Sunday that she was restricting evening and nighttime access to Millennium Park and will allow minors in the park after 6 p.m. on Thursdays through Sundays only if they’re accompanied by an adult. That starts this weekend.“Anyone coming into our public spaces should be able to enjoy them safely,” she said Monday, calling the weekend shooting a tragedy and adding she spoke to the slain teen’s mother.
She noted the city has had a curfew for minors for many years; she moved it up from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m. The mayor urged parents and guardians to know the curfew laws and will work with Chicago Public Schools to get the word out. She called it “extremely distressing” that preteen children are going downtown at night without adults.She called for full prosecution of those who accused of providing weapons to minors.
Government officials will put “appropriate signage” all over the park letting people know teenagers can’t be there by themselves in the evenings on weekends. When unaccompanied young people come, Lightfoot said, park security and police “will let them know what the rules of the road are” and she expects them to comply with the law.
Lightfoot’s latest efforts followed the shooting Saturday of 16-year-old Seandell Holliday of the Roseland neighborhood near The Bean,. Police said the shooting occurred during an altercation at a time when large groups of young people had gathered at the downtown park in a scene that became chaotic.
But the move was met with opposition from racial justice advocates and the American Civil Liberties Union.
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