A SAD PROPHESY COMING TRUE?

Cold Spring Shops, three years ago.  "In my gloomier moments, I wonder if we're not one looted convenience store away from some jurisdictions again becoming sundown towns."

As Freedom Weekend wound down, it wasn't a looted convenience store, it was a public pool.  First came the call for a flash mob.

The concept of a beach in Naperville boggles the mind, but Naperville officials pay attention to social media and they cordoned off the beach.

Undeterred, the planners rapidly shifted venues and took over the Sunset Pool in Glen Ellyn instead. Hundreds of "teens" invaded the facility, attacking attendees, throwing a manager in the water, pitching fireworks into the pool, along with the usual smoking and drinking.

DuPage Policy Journal reported on the event, which ended with the pool closed for the day.

A “flash mob” of some 200 Chicago residents swarmed Glen Ellyn’s Sunset village pool on Saturday afternoon, forcing their way past the entrance and assaulting the pool manager.

A video posted on Instagram shows a crowd pushing manager Christine Giunta-Mayer into the lap pool, which had been surrounded by the mob.

Sources tell DuPage Policy Journal that the mob arrived around 4:30 p.m.

The Journal posted additional video.

In his initial post, Second City Cop noted, "Glen Ellyn is a notorious refuge of 'Hate has no Home Here' signage along with all sorts of liberal virtue signalling. You get what you vote for we guess."  The day after the event, the park district changed its policy.  "On Sunday, Sunset Pool visitors were required to have a physical pool pass issued by the park district, sources tell DuPage Policy Journal."  A day pass for a non-resident is fifteen bucks.  That prompted Second City Cop to note,  "Seems the AWFL wine moms don't like diversity anywhere except their yard signs when it ends up chasing their kids out of the pool."  (The comments on those posts are not for the faint of heart.)

The Grosse Pointes north of Detroit each have a village park, complete with a swimming pool and a yacht basin, and each park is reserved for its residents and their guests, in manageable numbers.  Detroit's city parks, the best known of which might be Belle Isle, are open access.  Residents-only parks are a marker of the sundown suburbs, and Glen Ellyn's townies might have just been nudged in that direction: we'll see what their attitudes toward building more "affordable" or Section 8 housing become.