Back sixty or so years ago after I had just gotten my driver’s license my dad warned me about the Dan Ryan Expressway. For those with no real knowledge of Chicago, freeways are called expressways, and the Dan Ryan Expressway ran from the downtown area to and through the south side of the city. Back then my dad said, “Do not drive on the Dan Ryan. And if you accidentally find yourself on the Dan Ryan, do not get off. Too dangerous! Just keep going!”
Also back then my friends and I used to go to see the Cubs at Wrigley Field, but I was forbidden to go to Comiskey Park to watch the White Sox. Why? Simple. Wrigley Field was on the north side of Chicago, and Comiskey Park was on the south side. Even though we could take public transportation to both venues, the White Sox played on the south side and that area was too dangerous.
Now fast forward sixty years and the once dangerous south side of Chicago has gotten even more dangerous.
The violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua is clashing with gangs in Chicago, according to a report from the New York Post.
The Post noted that Venezuelan criminal gangs have flooded shelters and taken over apartment buildings in Chicago’s South Side.
“When the black gangs here get fed up with the illegalities and criminal activities of these migrants or non-citizens, the city of Chicago is going to go up in flames and there will be nothing the National Guard or the government can do about it when the bloodshed hits the streets. It’ll be blacks against migrants,” Tyrone Muhammad, a former Chicago gangster who did 20 years in prison and now runs a violence prevention program, told the Post in an interview.
Reportedly, Chicago has been helping more than 40,000 illegals in recent years (via NYP):
“The latest figures show Chicago has spent almost half a billion dollars over the last two years on the more than 42,000 migrants who’ve arrived since 2022.
Many have been given money for rent, food stamp cards and even cars — and some landlords have pushed out local African-Americans because they can get more government money for housing migrants.
Some belong to the one-time Venezuelan prison gang turned vicious multinational crime syndicate Tren de Aragua who sources in Chicago told The Post are heavily armed, brazen and spilling into areas of the South Side. Those areas are traditionally controlled by hundreds of entrenched gangs from the Gangster Disciples and Black P Stones to the Vice Lords, Latin Kings and Satan Disciples.”
These days no one wants to go and watch the miserable Chicago White Sox play, as the CWS are setting a record for the most losses in a single season by MLB team. However the south side of Chicago is a powder keg just waiting for someone to light the fuse. A word to the wise, “Stay off the Dan Ryan!”
9/25/24