“Nobody is renaming anybody little mini-Al Capones. But they certainly, in many cases, had the same, terrorizing effect that Al Capone had 100 years ago,” John Catanzara said.

What the mayor so far doesn’t seem to grasp is that while he’s urging the rest of the city to treat Chicago’s young people with greater respect, he appears to have less regard for the people who live and work in the areas where these “large gatherings” are occurring.

“That’s not appropriate,” the newly minted mayor said in response to a reporter’s question about trends like “mob actions” the city has endured. “We’re not talking about mob actions. I didn’t say that,” Johnson barked back. “These large gatherings … it’s important that we speak of these dynamics in an appropriate way.”

The Chicago developer that turned a historic Michigan Avenue building into the LondonHouse hotel — and sold it for a record high price several years ago — has surrendered the ground-floor retail portion of the property to its lender. The retail space adds to a long list of distressed commercial properties downtown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many retailers in the central business district have shuttered because of a lack of regular foot traffic from office users, given the rise of remote work.

“I am going to shoot you, little girl. Don’t be an idiot. Give me your phone,” Davis allegedly told one woman as he indicated that he had a gun in his pocket.