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Ald. Helen Shiller feeling heat after uptick in violence in Uptown
Ald. Helen Shiller
Ald. Helen Shiller (46th) is on the hot seat from Uptown constituents who say she has ignored an outbreak of violence in the North Side neighborhood.
What’s really put the heat on her is a video that an Uptown resident took of rival gangs running, cursing, punching, shouting and throwing glass bottles at each other on Sheridan Road.
Watch the video:
What a riot! from Joe Gray on Vimeo.
Since the video hit Uptown Update, a community news blog, CBS, NBC and the Huffington Post have reported on it.
At an Olympics bid town hall meeting Monday night at Truman College, protesters waited for Shiller outside holding signs demanding that she do something.
Shiller briefly tried to address the protesters but kept getting interrupted. So she left, and the protesters and the media ran after her.
Watch this Fox News Chicago report:
