Folks, people were arriving with multiple empty shopping bags and bringing *U-HAULS* to the Loop and the Gold Coast last night/this morning. It wasn't 'protest', it was a coordinated raid using the guise of protest for outright thievery.

FUCKING U-HAULS.

Read this, from the Chicago Tribune. Jesus f***ing wept.

Again, people not familiar with the geography of the city don't understand what's happening right now: the entire central section of Chicago (The Loop, more or less) is currently shut down to traffic. They *raised the bridges*. It's some serious ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK-level shit.

Access from the south side should theoretically still be unimpeded (though I read they've shut down the highway exits), but from north or west? I dunno, better hope the CTA turns back on the trains.