Usually, the bigger the better when it comes to signs for new developments, but the developers of Parkside of Old Town must have been wishing they could shrink their massive sign last night as a camera from Channel 2 News lingered over it while reporting on the shooting of a 14-year-old boy by Chicago Police. Parkside’s Web site shows yuppies in love, frolicking in the grass at Seward Park yards from where the shooting occurred at Cabrini-Green.
What followed the shooting was a sizeable protest by neighborhood residents (witnesses say the boy was trying to set down the gun, which was plastic – either fake or a BB gun – when he was shot). What didn’t follow was any sort of online coverage, at least that we could find, by the city’s two big daily newspapers.