Large events in suburban Tinley Park will have tighter security and stricter rules after a carnival last weekend was canceled early due to “general chaos” caused by hundreds of teens lured by social media, the village’s mayor said.
After five people were cited and a police officer was injured when a "flash mob" of more than 400 teens disrupted a weekend carnival in Tinley Park, the.
Cell phone video taken by Tinley Park residents shows teens jumping on cars, running through parking lots, fighting and causing chaos along 80th Avenue Saturday night, forcing the cancelation of the Armed Forces Carnival.
Tinley Park police said Monday five teens were cited for fighting after hundreds of youths, spurred by social media, gathered at the Armed Forces Carnival in a parking lot on the north side of the 80th Avenue Metra station.
Parishioners at the church in Tinley Park were targeted in a text message scam where the sender pretended to be a member of the clergy or staff with the church.