The downtown stuff is a little overblown from about a hundred high school kids coordinating a recent big Saturday meet up at Millennium Park, combined with some coordinated "smash & grabs" at high end retail in the River North last summer.
It's not any more dangerous than it's ever been. Especially in broad daylight doing the typical touristy things.
The trains have been extra stupid, but simply being aware of your surroundings rather than nose down in an iPhone goes a long way.
I feel like a large number of older Millennials are just figuring out that they are in fact adults with kids, and the world suddenly seems much more dangerous.
They go from "You only live once, bro!"
To "Omg the world is
so, dangerous now, like there are criminals who do crime! And sometimes.... THEY ARE VIOLENT!"
Like yeah, the world doesn't suddenly become soft and cuddly just because your heart melted for your baby.
It should motivate you to become smarter, stronger, more vigilant.... basically anything you can be better to parent your child.
But this generation isn't parenting, they're on Twitter registering their opinion on the hyperbole being shoved down their gullet.
