Vandals, looters harm downtown Naperville companies

A protest in Naperville that began peacefully took an unsightly flip overdue Monday night time as government stated a unique team of protesters arrived and started breaking home windows and looting downtown companies. The vandalism and looting started round 9:35 p.m. — regardless of a Nine p.m. curfew — when one protester activate a firework that led to an explosion. Vandals then broke home windows at greater than a dozen downtown institutions, together with Barnes & Noble, Talbots, Sullivan’s Steakhouse, Walgreens, Smoothie King, Bangkok Village, Pandora, Starbucks and the Gap. Looters additionally entered some companies, police stated, and attempted unsuccessfully to damage into the Apple retailer. Some downtown companies had boarded up their home windows prior to the protest