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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Frank Main

City should have shut down Loop club before weekend killing, 25th Ward alderman says

Persona, 408 S. Wells St., was shut down less than a week after a fatal shooting involving two security guards at the club. (Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times)

A killing outside a downtown nightclub last weekend might have been averted if the city had shut it down after two earlier fatal shootings outside the club, Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) said.

The Chicago Police Department and the city’s Business Affairs and Consumer Protection Department should have ordered Persona Lounge, 408 S. Wells St., to be closed after a fatal mass shooting outside the club July 1, Sigcho-Lopez said.

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