Officials blocked off several streets in the downtown area, citing traffic from the celebrations ahead of Mexico's Independence Day on September 16.
"The bridges are not raised but travel around the downtown area including the Loop and Gold Coast areas are limited. Police are blocking all traffic they can and attempting to move the massive caravan of revelers away from the downtown area," he said in another tweet.
Carlos Ballesteros, a reporter with Injustice Watch, said on Twitter that police closing streets"to stop Mexicans from celebrating Mexico's Independence Day is disrespectful as hell.""More than 600,000 Mexicans and Mexican-Americans call this city home," he wrote..
"We do this every year—it's like a tradition—we go downtown, meet up on Pulaski or wherever you meet up, and then everyone just leaves," Hernandez said.Chicago Police park across the Chicago River from Trump Tower after widespread looting broke out early Monday in the city on August 12, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
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