“Get out and enjoy the city. Jog the lakefront path. Get a curbside beer. Support your local businesses. But, for your own safety and that of everybody you encounter, stick with the social distancing. You will not be alone.”

The objections to the mayor’s CARES Act proposal point to the broader dissent in the council over the pandemic response and the city’s reaction to George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.

CPS CEO Janice Jackson said in a Friday community message that the district is still developing “draft guidelines” for the next school year but “remains committed” to the new school year commencing on Sept. 8, the day after Labor Day.

“Right now, the first need of workers is to get back the jobs and hours of employment they lost. Without a helping hand from the city, they might not have any job to come back to.”

Liberty Justice Center President and co-founder Pat Hughes said it was a win for public accountability. “The governor may not like when journalists ask tough questions and he may not always agree with their coverage, but Americans have a constitutional right to hold their elected officials accountable.”

Contracts and open houses are up as buyers and sellers who waited out the COVID-19 lockdown stream back into the market.

Though Illinois observes Juneteenth on the third Saturday of the month, June 19 is not a federal holiday. It is also not one for which the city of Chicago closes its offices. An ordinance introduced last year proposing Chicago add Juneteenth as a city holiday and close municipal offices is on hold.

A group of ministers said if the union representing rank-and-file officers can’t prove that claim, they want an apology.

Previously, the sites were open only to healthcare workers, first responders, other essential workers, people with COVID-19 symptoms, and people who have had close contact with someone diagnosed with or suspected of having the virus.

“Won’t be able to have families in the room, there will be a lot less hugging,” Vice President of Programs at the Carole Robertson Center for Learning Sonja Crum Knight said. “There will likely be lines outside as families wait for health screenings.”

A decision is scheduled to be issued Thursday in a legal challenge brought by the union representing Chicago police officers, asserting that their contract with the city requires the destruction of old complaints.

Activists met outside City Hall Tuesday morning to show support for a proposed ordinance that would terminate a $33 million contract between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Police Department that puts police in schools across the district.

“A 20 to 25 percent drop in (users of) the downtown office market has titanic implications for the character of our city,” Joe Schwieterman, director of DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, told Crain’s. “If you diminish the size of the corporate workforce, that ripples through just about everything.”

“I’m excited to be part of this study for the reason that it’s so important for getting our economy and our population back up and going,” said Richard Novak, University of Illinois at Chicago professor and head of infectious diseases. “And trying to get us back to some semblance of normalcy – or what we remember as normal. instead of this new normal we’re living now.”

Green cited WBEZ and City Bureau findings that Chase had given out $7.5 billion in home purchase lending between 2012 and 2018 — but just 1.9% of that money went to Chicago’s black neighborhoods. Majority-white areas of the city got 79.57%.

FOP President John Catanzara took issue with remarks by Arewa Karen Winters, great aunt of Pierre Loury, who was killed by Chicago police in 2016. Winters called officers “psychopaths with guns.”