The Old Post Office’s rebirth is part of $2 billion-plus in real estate developments coming to the small pocket of downtown, which are expected to bring more than 22,000 new office workers to the area in the next couple of years. It’s unclear whether work-from-home trends and a need for more spacing in offices could decrease that number.

She said, “I absolutely support neighbors being vigilant as to what’s going on on the streets and in their blocks but taking up arms, that leads to chaos and we’re not supporting vigilantism in the city of Chicago under any circumstances.”

Groups of thieves struck a series of big box stores on Chicago’s South Side on Sunday while periodically calling 911 to falsely report that a mall several miles away was being ransacked, Alderman Ray Lopez said. “It was a game of whack-a-mole.”

“The U.S. Attorney announced that anyone involved in destructive behavior – such as setting fire to a police car – should know that federal law enforcement will use all tools available to us to hold them accountable. The question is whether this jurisdictional claim is appropriately part of that tool box.”

Cicero Police Supt. Jerry Chlada Jr., denied claims that he’d purposefully been letting Latin gangs roam free throughout Cicero.

Mark Konkol: “When reporters don’t press politicians who currently control when we can leave our homes and where we can go with pre-pandemic vigor, a frustrated and skeptical public starts to lose trust in the unchecked power of government leaders and the legacy news media that reports what blowhards say regardless of the truth.”

Job losses and pay cuts roiled all of America since Covid-19 struck last winter, but the depth of the pain depended a lot of where employees lived, their income level and if they had kids.

Eric Reinhart, a University of Chicago researcher who co-authored the report, told WTTW News, “The jail cycle – arresting people, cycling through the jail and back into their communities – was going to be a huge driver of COVID-19 spreading to communities.”

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has also sent a “host” of complaints to the Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs, Roberts said. Those complaints have covered officers not turning on body cameras, concealing or not wearing their nametags and acting unprofessionally, among other things.

“God help us, God help us if we can’t find the courage to publicly condemn police misconduct and excessive force,” Brown said. “We will thoroughly, thoroughly investigate any and all complaints of misconduct, and we will also hold officers accountable who are complicit of misconduct. It’s always the right time to do the right thing.

Writes pastor Corey Brooks, “On the south side of Chicago, we don’t need police stepping back and retreating because of political agendas. The logical extension of liberal police reform is for law enforcement agents to retreat from their duties, but this is exactly wrong and will weaken our neighborhoods.”

“I’m in a constant struggle to get people to believe that they can make money and that I will keep them safe in an underserved market,” said Matanky, whose company owns or manages 3 million square feet of Chicago-area retail space, much of it in low-income communities. “To just have that safe convenient market destroyed for no good reason is going to put us back years.”

Lightfoot campaigned for mayor on a promise to craft an oversight board for the Police Department in 2019, and in 2016 led the Police Accountability Task Force formed by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the wake of the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer.

State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said, “Our office is in communication with the attorney representing the family in the case, and also working with the FBI which has started their own investigation as well. We’ll look at the evidence and the law and see where it takes us.”

By a Chicago business owner: “Decisive action now might still salvage this mess and keep people from bolting. It might keep businesses from giving up. We must respect democratic protests but halt wanton destruction and looting. The government must protect both people and property. That’s the deal we make when we pay taxes and follow rules. If our property is to be offered up to the mob, perhaps the city should stop collecting property taxes.”

The city has a long history of steps toward reform that failed to satisfy those who want change. From the 1960s onward, civil rights abuses and indictments of officers led to official reports and new oversight bodies that did not prevent the policing scandals that have remained commonplace.

“In Chatham a bird’s eye view shows an incredibly destitute center of essential services. Places for food, clothing, banking and beauty are now praying to weather not only the coronavirus but also the storm of vandals.”

“Chicago’s headed for hard times. Unemployment will remain Depression-era high. The coronavirus could roar back — some experts say that’s a sure thing. And the city’s finances, already troubled, have been devastated. Yet we’re the city that works. So we tell ourselves.”