(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Some businesses on Chicago’s North Side have been boarding up windows pre-emptively, to avoid the kind of vandalism and looting that have befallen stores in other areas of the city.
In Lincoln Square, at least a couple of businesses, including Gene’s Sausage Shop, were taking the precaution.
The contractor who was putting up the coverings said good, 3/4-inch plywood was getting hard to come by, in the wake of protest violence that led to looting and other damage over the weekend.
“It’s becoming a major problem,” Eddie Rodriguez told WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller.
Miller saw similar precautionary boarding up occurring in Lake View and the Southport business corridor.