Chicago woman loses unborn baby after she and her husband were attacked on their date night by a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl who said, ‘We own the streets’

• The 41-year-old woman and her husband were beaten and sprayed with pepper spray
• The residents of Streeterville had already called for action against rampant youth gangs
• Across Chicago, the number of serious assaults has increased by 20 percent so far this year

A group of wild teenagers brutally attacked a woman and caused her to miscarry after she and her husband dared to venture onto a Chicago street the youths claimed as their own.

The 41-year-old mother was on her way home from an evening out with her husband when they were surrounded by at least ten young people in the notorious Streeterville neighborhood.

The woman, who gave her name as Nina, told Fox32 she was pepper-sprayed in the face, kicked in the stomach and lost a clump of hair as the mob restrained her husband.

“They didn’t steal anything. They said something like, ‘The street is ours. The street is ours. You can’t just dance around in your little dress.'”

“They said things that just didn’t make sense to me because they don’t know me.”

Less than two weeks ago, residents gathered for an emergency meeting to demand action against rioting youth gangs in a neighborhood where the number of attacks has increased by 12 percent in the last year.

“We moved here because we thought it would be quieter,” said Streeterville resident Mark Wolfe.

“Now we have what my wife and I call ‘Saturday night horrors’ because the kids come in and just wreak havoc.”

“Everything happened behind us,” said the youngest victim.

“First someone came up to him and hit him on the head, and he turned around, looked at me and said to me, ‘Run!’

“Another lady came up to me and dragged me across the floor by my hair.

“I started screaming, she started spraying pepper spray right in my face and eyes.”

“Another person started trampling on me and my husband ran to save me and over ten people held him down.”

“We just wanted to go home to our child and say, ‘Leave us alone, why are you doing this to us?'”

Nina was two weeks pregnant at the time of the attack on Friday and lost the baby hours later.

“We believe in faith, but it wasn’t meant to be that way,” she said. “So we don’t know why this happened to us.”

The neighborhood gained notoriety in 2020 when celebrity Jussie Smollett carried out a bizarre “racially motivated attack” on himself there, but violent crime has skyrocketed in the Democratic-governed city.

The number of serious assaults has increased by 20 percent so far this year compared to the same period in 2021, while the number of robberies has increased by 38 percent and thefts by 77 percent.

On Memorial Day weekend alone, 41 people were shot and nine died, including a five-year-old girl.

When police arrived at the scene on Friday, they arrested a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl.

Both were charged with assault and released by police pending their appearance in Cook County Juvenile Court.

“We are asking the prosecutor to upgrade the charge to aggravated assault,” said local councilor Brian Hopkins.

“Both victims suffered serious injuries and medical examinations are ongoing.”

A curfew for unaccompanied minors will apply throughout the city from 10 p.m.

But residents told City Hall they fear the neighborhood is facing a summer of misery as youth gangs take over the streets.

“I’m worried. I’m older and we don’t go out at night anymore,” Barbara Webb told ABC7.

“We have never had problems like this in this neighborhood,” said Deborah Gershbein, president of the Streeterville Organization of Active Residents.

“Everyone is worried because summer is just beginning.”