Police shut down South Side, West Side businesses over violence, go easy on clout-heavy bars downtown – Chicago Sun-Times*

Since 2015, police department records show, at least 57 Chicago businesses —liquor stores and bars as well as gas stations, restaurants and other establishments —have been shut down as a result of shootings under the city’s summary closure ordinance, enacted that year. The ordinance gives the police department the little-known but immense power to immediately close businesses associated with violence. Most of those shuttered businesses have been in low-income neighborhoods on the South Side and the West Side.