The weekend came with “lessons learned,” Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy chief of staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas told the Tribune.
Intersections from Halsted Street to DuSable Lake Shore Drive and from Division Street to 18th Street were blocked, with residents and workers allowed through at 10 access points.
On Saturday morning, the OEMC reiterated on X, formerly Twitter, that there were no planned street closures for the second day of celebrations. But before 7 p.m., the office had again announced downtown streets were closed to cars. Blumenthal said he had never experienced such closures and traffic around downtown, even when access to much of the downtown area was. The closures Saturday limited access to the central business district on a busy weekend night in good weather, he said.
Pacione-Zayas said the closures were primarily managed by the OEMC and police. They were not planned, but were ultimately deemed necessary to ensure first responders could move throughout the city, she said.The mayor’s office is considering downtown Mexican Independence Day celebration options, she said.
The city has a responsibility to create safe spaces for celebration, he said. Ideas for how to improve the celebrations are “already rushing in,” Johnson said. “It put people against each other,” she said. “City leaders need to meet the young people and come up with a plan. We need a celebration that is respectful and regulated, but we need people to stand up to recognize that.”
Ald. Silvana Tabares, 23rd, worked with emergency response authorities to prepare for gatherings in her Southwest Side ward near Midway Airport. She also persuaded some Pulaski Road businesses to block off their parking lots to prevent meetups and car stunts, she said. Tabares, who praised the “courage and professionalism” of police, called on other elected officials to share opposition to such attacks on officers. The city should better organize celebrations next year, she said.
Other attacks targeting police led to arrests across the city. Police body camera footage captured Esmeralda Aguilar, 24, of Cicero pepper spraying officers in the 200 block of North Wabash Avenue around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Cook County prosecutors alleged Monday.
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