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"[Police Chief Demitrous Cook] said he has noticed a lot of pit bulls and Cane Corsos in the village and that a recent situation occurred in which a pit bull kept jumping a fence to get at a neighbor woman's bull dog, which was injured.
"She was afraid to let her children in the yard," Cook said.
Cook said he was once chased by a pit bull while walking in the village and that Glenwood officers have twice had to shoot pit bulls."
Glenwood joins Peoria, Bloomington, Galesburg, Macomb, Lake county, Cary, Carmi, Skokie, Elgin, Arlington Heights, Waukegan and Wilmington in attempting to address a pit bull problem with non-breed specific dangerous dog laws in the last couple years.
When is Illinois going to realize that the emperor has no clothes and pit bulls are an unwarranted threat to human and pet safety?
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