West Town

I agree with RAKARWOWSKI and most of what Nolan is saying . It is easy for those who have never been on the job to criticize . The problem with Police is that the overwhelming majority try to do the job right . 1 bad cop destroys it for the whole lot of them . The bad ones should be rooted out faster so the good ones don't have to look over their shoulders . The Police dept is also woefully undermanned it is laughable . Rahm gets in and wants to cut the Police budget . He doesn't care about Public safety . With a Dept that is already undermanned there should be no cuts . With all the tax increases and new revenue streams they should find the money .

I was coming home on the bus and they re-routed it at Michigan and 24th. A man and I decided to get off and walk the rest of the way to 26th St. There were police who were blocking the street. I figured all I needed to do is show my driver's license and they'd see where I lived and let me through. After all, the police notified our building to keep an i.d. on us for the duration of the NATO conference. I told the cop that I live in South Commons. He said "Sorry, we can't let you through." I asked why. He replied "You don't wanna know." Another officer said at the same time "They've found a bomb in a car." He pointed about a block down.So the Chinese man (who's visiting from China and been here about a week visiting relatives) followed me to Wabash, where we then walked South. We walked till we got near I-55 and came to a border of security fences. I didn't know if we tried to walked along the fence, we could get through to Michigan Avenue. I saw some police driving slowly past on the other side of the fence. I flagged them down. I asked if we could get through if we walk along the side of the fence to Michigan Ave. They said yes. We squeezed through the area and came out on Michigan Ave. at the I-55 bridge. We saw cop cars blocking access to the bridge from 26th St. When the man and I got to 26th St. they didn’t question us. I don’t know if the info on the bomb has been on the news yet, but we were re-routed at about 6:45 pm.