Children under the age of 18 will need to be accompanied by an adult following last week's chaos.
The mayhem began after police cleared the park and pushed the young crowd into and through the downtown area."I want to be clear it gives me no pleasure to impose these rules and restrictions but having exhausted every other opportunity. Every other tool and remedy, we've got to go to this next step," she said."Effective immediately, guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult after 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday — and may be asked to present a valid ID.
It's not clear how the new millennium park rule will be enforced. But Mayor Lightfoot did say the city is working with Chicago Public Schools to make sure both kids and their parents are aware of the change."I think the curfew rule is, I'm going to say, necessary at the moment – because, you know, when you get too much freedom at a young age, you want to know how to really control it – so I feel like it could be necessary just to prevent chaos," said Lashaun Spain.
"I think it's necessary, because kids nowadays don't know how to control themselves," said Tony Duprey."I don't think so," Duprey said,"because you know how minors are. They sneak out, sneak in. They're probably going to find another way to get in here." The American Civil Liberties Union does not support the curfew, and says the mayor does not have the authority to enact such rules. The ACLU also says without clear enforcement guidelines, it could lead to racially-biased policing."What else can you really do? You have young people coming downtown, and big groups of people all the time - and you never know what might happen," said Tio Hardiman, executive director for Violence Interrupters."They should be accompanied by an adult.
The mayor also plans to change the current city-wide Friday and Saturday night curfew from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m. -- but it turns out, she can't just do that with simply an executive order.Civil rights groups have blasted the mayor's executive order as a"power grab."
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