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Rowdy, rampaging teenagers in Chicago's public places have been a problem for years

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CHICAGO - For years now, Chicago residents and police have faced an annual problem: when the weather gets warm, teenagers like to flood public places and behave badly.Chicago has just undergone an unusually early warm spell, and as if on cue, teenagers rampaged two nights in a row.

On Friday night, hundreds went to 31st Street Beach, running around and lighting a fire. They brazenly chased police cars and smashed the window on a squad car.

A 14-year-old was shot nearby.A large crowd of teens gathered at 31st Street Beach Friday night, which led to chaotic and tense moments.On Saturday night, hundreds of teenagers went to Chicago's downtown area, which is known as "The Loop." They tried to get into Millennium Park (home of the Bean) and ran up and down Michigan Avenue.

They jumped on cars and a CTA bus. One woman told FOX 32 Chicago that people jumped on her windshield, smashed it, and then attacked her husband as he sat inside the vehicle.By the end of Saturday night, two teenagers had been shot.

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