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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Volunteers for Chicago civic group robbed while putting up lights
2021-12-06
[BlockClubChicago] Four volunteers with My Block, My Hood, My City were robbed while hanging up Christmas lights in Grand Boulevard on Saturday, the nonprofit and police confirmed.

The volunteers were decorating a home near 48th Street and Martin Luther King Drive as part of the nonprofit's annual "Be Part of the Light" event, which aims to decorate homes, buildings and light poles for the holidays along a 12-mile stretch of King Drive.

Around 3:50 p.m., four women ages 30-34 were decorating a home near 48th and King Drive when multiple people pulled up in a white SUV and got out, demanding the women's belongings before fleeing with a purse, wallet and a fanny pack, police said.

To make matters worse, the Christmas tree the group saw lit up in Washington Park was burned overnight — for the second year in a row
Posted by:Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843

#3  For those following the heyjackass.com website, neighborhood in article is known as 'Grand Boulevard', not to be confused with 'Grand Crossing' neighborhood.

Both are dangerous to human life, however.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-12-06 14:51  

#2  Four volunteers with My Block, My Hood, My City were robbed while hanging up Christmas lights

I am beginning to think that the fundamental building block of the Universe is not hydrogen, but irony.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-12-06 14:12  

#1  48th and MLK is just about the worst possible neighborhood in Chicago. Does these people's naivete know no bounds at all?
Posted by: Tom   2021-12-06 13:50  

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