{"id":914285,"date":"2026-07-05T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914285\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:29:16","slug":"police-disperse-unruly-crowd-setting-off-fireworks-in-bridgeview-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914285\/","title":{"rendered":"Police disperse unruly crowd setting off fireworks in Bridgeview, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the southwest Chicago suburb of Bridgeview warned people to be careful this July 4th weekend after multiple people were injured while lighting fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said there was a large group of people on Harlem Avenue at 84th Street on Saturday night shooting off fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>When officers responded to the scene, they said things were getting out of hand, forcing police to use a rescue vehicle to keep people safe and help clear the streets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to go in there because of the amount of fireworks that were being tossed around,&#8221; said Bridgeview police Chief Richard Mancha. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t go in there safely. The fire department couldn&#8217;t go in there safely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once officers cleared the streets, they had to work with surrounding police officers to get crowds to disperse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in the southwest Chicago suburb of Bridgeview warned people to be careful this July 4th weekend after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":914286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[109543,960,5864,5386,1818,14848],"class_list":["post-914285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-bridgeview","tag-chicago","tag-fireworks","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-july-4th"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116867849869822812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}