East 75th Street residents win City Hall crackdown on bars blamed for summer mayhem

Greater Grand Crossing residents have been urging the city to crack down on bars and provide a larger police presence on East 75th Street. They say the bars are magnets for spontaneous parties like this one in 2021 in the 300 block of East 75th Street. (Provided)

Chicago city officials have heard the residents of the area around East 75th Street loud and clear.

For a year, people who live near bars along six blocks of 75th Street east of the Dan Ryan Expressway in Greater Grand Crossing have been complaining to the city’s Liquor Control Commission that the lounges contribute to violence, noise and litter in the historic Black business strip on the South Side.