Gold Coast Shots Fired (and more)

Earlier tonight:

• A Chicago police officer fired on a car fleeing a Gold Coast retail store this evening, after the driver of the vehicle tried to run him down when the officer tried to stop four people with their arms full of stolen clothing, officials said.
  
  No is believed to have been injured, said Chicago Police News Affairs [...].
  
  The incident happened about 6:10 p.m as an officer responded to a call of a theft in progress in in the first block of East Walton Street, just east of Rush Street

The officer was unhurt.

And of course, last night was all over the news, too:

• The 67-year-old man stabbed at a North Michigan Avenue hotel Saturday night had been downtown with seven family members for the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, his niece said.
  
  A second man was also injured in the attack while trying to keep the assailant from fleeing, police said, and a man is in custody.

Hey, pay no attention to those two bleeding individuals on the corner! They were like that when they got there. It's 100% safe for tourists and suburbanites alike in the sales-tax-generating section of the city. Really. We mean it. How can there be a police shortage if you can't see what isn't there?

Tick tock. Tick tock.