Man Critically Injured In Chicago Lounge Stabbing (VIDEO)

A man was left in critical condition Thursday after he was stabbed in the neck at a lounge in Chicago's West Loop.

Police say that the attacker was hitting on the 43-year-old man's girlfriend around midnight Wednesday at Plush, a lounge and restaurant located at 1103 W. Madison Street. When the man confronted the other man about making a pass at his girlfriend, the conversation quickly became heated, the Chicago Tribune reports. The attacker pulled out a knife and stabbed the other man in the neck.

After the stabbing, the attacker fled the scene. No one is yet in custody. Authorities have also yet to recover a weapon from the scene, according to Fox Chicago.

Neighbors of the lounge told NBC Chicago that they have grown tired of similar altercations happening at the business and have petitioned to get its liquor license taken away. Plush representatives have yet to respond publicly to the stabbing.

At a January City Council meeting, area residents complained that the lounge is a public danger, according to the Chicago Journal. Last August, a murder occurred across the street from the business. Plush owner Billy Kleronomos claimed that complaints about his club have carried racial undertones.

"In order to be accepted by the community, I would have to put a sign outside my restaurant that said, 'No black people allowed,'" Kleronomos said at the meeting.

Photo by alancleaver_2000 via Flickr.

WATCH a brief video report on the stabbing:

Comments

[BushBites]

09:18 PM on 10/13/2011

Gentrification can be messy.

[penndl]

12:39 PM on 10/13/2011

"In order to be accepted by the community, I would have to put a sign outside my restaurant that said, 'No black people allowed,'" Kleronomos said at the meeting.

I wouldn't blame the community or the owner. There are certain groups of Americans who for variuos reasons are not capable of functioning normally in society. They are so consumed by their insecurities and hate over delusions of threats that they see violence as a solution. No business can serve them, they will destroy for the sake of it. As it is written, "cast not thine pearls before swine".

[Telemachus]

12:39 PM on 10/13/2011

This is just "The Iliad", but with no class whatsoever.

[John MC]

12:30 PM on 10/13/2011

Two lives ruined over nothing. That's what I call sad....

[SavvyGirl]

11:41 AM on 10/13/2011

This owner needs to relocate to a White neighborhood. Oh wait...I forgot, Chicago is no longer segregated.

[John Hazelton Smith]

12:39 PM on 10/13/2011

Maybe, just maybe you haven't been here in a while; Chicago is still very much segregated.

[tissa]

01:31 PM on 10/13/2011

Thanks for the badges! ;-)

[blurredmolly]

02:31 PM on 10/13/2011

Savvygirl, huh?

[tissa]

11:16 AM on 10/13/2011

Seriously, you are in your 40's and worried about your girlfriend being hit on?  And the guy with the knife wants the girl that bad?


Really?

I am sorry, stop drinking and grow up.

[JeffmChicago]

12:39 PM on 10/13/2011

Blame it on the alcohol, tissa. (sarcasm)
faved already a fan.

[tissa]

01:30 PM on 10/13/2011

LOL, thanks!

[PalaceOfWisdom]

01:58 PM on 10/13/2011

We don't have all the details. A man who turned out to be homicidal was hitting on his girlfriend, undeterred by his presence. Would the eventual attacker have left her alone without being confronted? How should the boyfriend have handled it?

[tissa]

08:08 PM on 10/13/2011

Ignore and move away.

If he follows. Call police or bouncer.

Period.