by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
Wow.
A robbery crew targeted people along the Lakefront Path near Belmont Harbor yesterday afternoon—repeatedly tossing bikes in front of oncoming bicyclists in an effort to knock people down so they could be robbed according to multiple witnesses and one known victim.
I lived in that general area, just a few blocks from the harbor, in fact, in the 1990s.
Indeed, the entire area from Michigan Avenue north to beyond Addison, and west to roughly the freeway, was considered the “green zone.” Oh sure, there was the occasional brawl and similar, but this sort of organized criminal activity was unheard of there.