Nearly 30 arrested when fights break out as hundreds of young people descend on downtown Chicago
by Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune
Apr 18, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - Bursts of chaos hit downtown Chicago Wednesday night as hundreds of students and about 200 officers wound through bustling streets.
Nearly 30 people were arrested as large groups of young people, many of them high school students, moved through the Loop and the Near North Side, breaking out in numerous fights, according to Chief of Patrol Fred Waller, speaking at the corner of State and Lake streets after 9 p.m. Twenty males and six females were taken into custody, most of them charged with disorderly
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