Vandalism against All Saints, Chicago, soup kitchen

This morning, we posted an item about a story in The New York Times' Chicago edition about the soup kitchen at All Saints Episcopal Church. A few hours later, our friend, the Rev. Bonnie Perry, All Saints rector, texted us to let us know that the church had been vandalized.

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The vandals had apparently read the Times' story, which juxtaposed the wealth of All Saints' neighborhood with the poverty of patrons of the soup kitchen. It concluded:

Oh, the couple across the street just put the Abbott House on the block for $2.3 million. Buy it and the porch will provide a box seat view of our complex economy. And, if so inclined, consider walking into a place like All Saints and keeping fellow citizens from drowning.

The vandals knocked out one pane of a stained glass window and slid a garden hose through the opening. One third of the sanctuary sustained water damage.

All Saints is the tenth largest church in the Diocese of Chicago.

Posted by Jim Naughton on November 21, 2009 3:25 PM | |
Comments (4)

I wonder how many vandals make a regular habit of reading "The Times".

Posted by Beth Royalty [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 21, 2009 5:21 PM

You wouldn't need to make a habit of it. You'd just need to see that one particular story in any one of a number of places.

Posted by Jim Naughton [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 21, 2009 5:28 PM

I wonder how many vandals make a regular habit of reading "The Times".

Oh, the type of vandals who live in 2.3 million dollar houses?

JC Fisher

Posted by tgflux [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 21, 2009 10:16 PM

We need to be careful here. The coincidence of time naturally raises suspicion, but correlation is not causality.

Posted by Malcolm [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 21, 2009 11:55 PM

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