Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Widespread street takeovers plagued the city’s Far South Side over the weekend, clogging up traffic as crowds gathered to watch drivers spin donuts in major intersections. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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In the 1960’s The hot rods use to take over North Ave for Drag races on Saturday Night.
Nothing new about kids having fun with cars. Better this than robbing people.
Not even summer yet, expect this to get worse. Maybe when Mayor Johnson hears that’s it’s suburbanites he’ll do something about it. Probably not but he’ll have a scapegoat so the city youth don’t take the blame.
I’m sure he is trying to figure out how they can tax them.
Arrest the drivers,
Arrest the bystanders,
Impound the cars,
Crush the cars into cubes,
Bill the car owners for the fee to crush the cars.
We’ll see how many “youths” want to do street takeovers after a rigorous program of that.
maybe you should get outside and experience the culture of the car scene and you would understand why kids and adults do what they do instead of committing murders and other actual crimes.
So we should allow street takeovers since it keeps these people from committing murders and other crimes?
The do both: experience the culture of the car scene AND commit murders/other actual crimes. You must be a CPS grad, failing basic logic