https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/foot-traffic-drops-50-in-bustling-chicago-shopping-district-as-trump-immigration-raids-loom/
“It’s going to be disastrous,” Jennifer Aguilar, head of the local chamber of commerce, told Bloomberg.
A bustling shopping district in Chicago known as the “Mexico of the Midwest” has seen foot traffic plummet by 50% — as residents say they fear the immigration raids promised by President Trump.
The sidewalks were empty and some businesses were closed along a two-mile stretch of shops and restaurants on 26th Street in Chicago’s Little Village — the Windy City’s second-busiest retail corridor — as Trump was sworn into office Monday.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/foot-traffic-drops-50-in-bustling-chicago-shopping-district-as-trump-immigration-raids-loom/