The march was intended to repudiate the unrest that occurred when groups of teenagers took to the streets to vandalize vehicles and city property. Some attacked tourists and two of the teens were shot.

Fox 32 reported:

There were no large or disruptive gatherings forming in and around Chicago’s Millennium Park Saturday. What there has been – a larger police presence and others coming together to deter another teen takeover.

Half a dozen of Chicago’s most prominent African American churches collaborated in the march.

At Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road stood more than 500 black men in solidarity for a cause greater than themselves.

One participant told reporters: “What I think will help them is each man take one, to learn there’s another way in life, and you don’t have to go that way.”