Chicago trying to surpass San Francisco in a race toward lawless anarchy

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American Thinker

Two American cities, San Francisco and Chicago, seem to be competing to see which one can descend farther into the dystopia of gang rule, with honest citizens held captive to anarchy in the streets, afraid to leave their homes and finding nowhere to buy life’s essentials if they do venture out. Master filmmaker John Carpenter got it wrong when he predicted which American cities would fail in his 1980s and 90s dystopian fantasies Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.

Monica Showalter covered the descent of the City by the Bay yesterday in her piece titled The Fall of San Francisco. Today it is Chicago’s turn, and even though I have lived in the San Francisco area for over 3 decades, I must say that Chicago is making an impressive sprint toward hell, leaving San Francisco in a cloud of bloody dust.

When it comes to retail theft, both cities have seen their premier shopping districts, North Michigan Avenue and Union Square, devastated by looters. In fact, while SF has recently seen storefronts boarded up, as Monica reported yesterday, over a quarter of all retail space downtown is now vacant, and on Michigan Avenue, where looting was extensive in the George Floyd memorial riots, lots of very prominent retail space is going begging.

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Drug store chain to install safes in Illinois to deter robberies

To curb the theft of opioids, CVS Health will be installing time-delayed safes at its Illinois locations.

Pharmacy robberies are not only a problem in Chicago, but in downstate communities like Decatur, Nashville and Columbia.