“For those white Chicagoans who still believe the unspeakable gun violence does not concern them, Zuber’s murder is a wake-up call.”

Neighbors in a southern portion of Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood are concerned about a spike in violent crime and say they want to see something done about it. Police confirm the crimes, from gunpoint muggings to break-ins. “You expect a little crime in the city,” a resident said. “But the fact that it’s happening in the middle of the day, and so often, with no real police response, it’s very alarming.”

Some 140 teachers and 109 more school-based staffers, such as classroom aides, were told Monday they weren’t needed at their schools, which saw enrollment declines. It’s not yet clear how charter school staffing has been affected.

In an action unlike any I’ve seen in decades, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to nearly 2,000 businesses in the Northwest Side’s 1st and 35th Wards asking them to contact their aldermen and “unite against these harmful policies.”

The lamb was on the lam for about 10 minutes, chased by a bearded man, presumably from the slaughterhouse, through the afternoon rain drizzle. Live free or die.

Officials at Illinois’ most popular tourist attraction are pushing the site’s largest renovation in decades. But are they taking taxpayers for a ride? It’s nearly impossible to find out, thanks to efforts by Navy Pier, Inc., or NPI, to prevent transparency at every turn.

The contract locks Chicago into using Taser International’s cloud storage software, Evidence.com, for at least five years. By then, CPD could be storing hundreds of thousands of hours of video, making it difficult to switch if the company were to raise the price or the department were to find cost savings in storing the videos on local servers. “What this means is you will forever be required to pay them for their service, from now till the end of time,” wrote Lee Richards, a sergeant with 10 years overseeing video evidence for the Kansas City, Missouri police department.

“These services are going to do to urban transit what UberX did to the taxi market — it’s going to overturn the apple cart,” said Ian Savage, a transportation expert at Northwestern University. UberX, which offers cheaper rides than cabs for individual passengers, helped cause a sharp decline in the taxi business. Comment: Make no mistake. Sharing services like Uber and Lyft are monumentally disruptive and are likely to change transportation radically all around the world.