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And see their list of demands here.
“We all remember 911 after that day red white and blue was everywhere; in a respectful sense this is our 911,” Ron Onesti said at a demonstration in Little Italy Sunday. “As the dust settles on this craziness we demand to be invited to the mayor’s table to discuss ways of fostering our heritage.”
Not long after demonstrators arrived, the mayor and his wife emerged from their home, each holding one of their children, to meet with the demonstrators, who remained on public property just a few feet away, according to the newspaper. “I’d be happy to talk to you… I’m just not going to do it in front of my house.”
“The opportunity presented itself, under the management of the US attorney here,” Lightfoot said of the offer to collaborate with federal agencies. “And I stress that because that’s unlike what we saw in Portland, where the Trump administration parachuted in these additional federal agents, without consulting anybody locally and ignoring the local U.S. attorney, very different circumstance here in Chicago.”
Jim Nowlan: “The optics of the ComEd bribery and Madigan shake-down scheme are breathtaking, at least an order of magnitude more brazen that your typical corruption.”
Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson on Friday said the district is taking the new CDC guidance into consideration:“The current plan that CPS has in place does follow the CDC guidelines and we are looking at the new guidelines and will update our plans accordingly. But I want parents and students to know that any plan that we put in place will be guided by the science and that we will not make a decision to have students return to school if we don’t believe it’s safe.”
Mark Konkol: “The most truthful, lasting tribute to this moment in our city’s history would be to put it back on public display — laying on its side, scratched, scarred and spattered with spray paint — as a permanent reminder that during Chicago’s worst year its people were forced to look upon false idols that decorate our city with fresh eyes.”
“I think there’s a way to protest and there’s a way to don’t protest. You don’t protest against the flag, and you don’t protest against this country who’s given you an opportunity to make a living playing a sport you never thought would happen. So I don’t want to hear all the crap.”
Teacher Anthony V. Clark said he’s lost 12 of his students to gun violence in 11 years: “Gun violence is directly tied to poverty and lack of investment in our communities. All we see is churches, liquor stores and loan companies in Black and Brown communities.”
“No one approaches his 18 terms. Since 1819, only five people have served more than two terms at the top of the House, led by Republicans David Shanahan, with six intermittently between 1915 and 1933, and William Wood, with four in a row during the 1950s.”
“There is worthy, but tough work ahead if Chicago is serious about reexamining its many statues and monuments. Beautiful, but deeply flawed works will have to be removed or recontextualized.”
It’s no accident that his warning is forgotten as the city struggles for its life. And the tiger is still hungry.
The letter is signed by 31 Democratic state politicians, Chicago aldermen and Cook County commissioners. They’re joined by various progressive groups like Black Lives Matter Chicago, United Working Families and the Chicago Teachers Union.
Pritzker spokeswoman Emily Bittner said: “The governor had no way of knowing about these allegations and urges anyone involved in the federal investigation to be forthcoming with authorities.”
In a state where the numbers of cases of COVID-19 are rising, if not as quickly as they are surging in several other states, the protestors took aim at Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s broadside this week that people who forego face coverings are “the enemy.”
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