Looting, property damage reported on Mag Mile

Chicago police said the situation was still ongoing early Monday and could not provide details about specific incidents or numbers of arrests.

Looting and property damage was reported throughout downtown Chicago overnight.

Videos posted to social media showed large crowds breaking windows and entering stores along the Magnificent Mile.

Chicago police said the situation was still ongoing early Monday and could not provide details about specific incidents or numbers of arrests.

The CTA suspended bus and train service downtown at the “request of public safety officials,” the transit agency said in a tweet. No buses or trains will run in the area bordered by Fullerton and Ashland avenues and, Cermak road.

Police said smash-and-grab burglars hit a store in the South Loop late Sunday night, but it was not immediately clear whether that incident was related to the other large crowds of looters.

Chicago and the surrounding suburbs saw widespread looting and vandalism in late May and early June during unrest in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Officials estimated the looting caused more than $20 million in damage in Cook County.

This is a developing story.

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