South Cook News

Pekau for Congress has issued the following press release:

August 25, 2022 - According to a Fox-32 News report, a Chicago man, Tavis Dunbar, drove his car into a group of people outside a well-known Southside bar on August 14th – killing three and injuring one. Dunbar has been arrested and charged with murder, police said on Tuesday. 

Detectives said Dunbar was in the bar before the incident. A court filing says Dunbar got into a car, drove off at nearly 60 mph and "never once touched the brake" before he slammed into four people, killing three of them.

This was a mass killing. There is video footage of the incident. Dunbar has a record of convictions for violent felonies. Yet it took more than a week for the news to report it, and more than a week before he was arrested. 

Keith Pekau, Mayor of Orland Park and a candidate for Congress in IL-06, released the following statement in response, “First and foremost, to the families of the victims: I am so sorry for your loss. My thoughts are with you as you deal with the aftermath of this horrific, senseless mass killing.”

“Let’s be clear, that is exactly what this was. Just like in Wisconsin where a driver plowed through a crowd at a Christmas parade, Tavis Dunbar used a vehicle as a weapon and killed three people simultaneously. Where is the wall-to-wall, 24/7 coverage? Why doesn’t the media show the same concern for mass killings that happen in less-affluent areas inside the city of Chicago?  Where are the political press conferences demanding justice?  We should be shocked to our core by this crime.”