“I wanted to make sure we did it as quickly as possible, and we received some information that day that raised some very serious public safety concerns, and I didn’t want to wait,” Lightfoot said. She declined to elaborate.

Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday, “…let’s put it this way, it’s very difficult to regulate state boundaries, or in this case, the city of Chicago boundaries versus the boundaries of Wisconsin.”

At 11:15 a.m., the driver was on I-94 near 115th Street when they heard a single gunshot, according to Illinois State Police.

“Not incidentally, the lack of clarity between what’s news reporting and what’s opinion writing is a problem across the newspaper industry. Many papers and websites are addressing the issue, often based on surveys and readership studies.”

According to the city’s website, the statue that’s surrounded by South Chicago Avenue, Exchange Avenue and 92nd Street in the South Chicago neighborhood was originally part of a public drinking fountain that was a gift from Chicago hotelier John B. Drake. Dedicated in 1892, it’s believed to be Chicago’s first statue commemorating Columbus.

There were three homicides over the weekend compared to 12 and eight the previous two weekends and 17 over the July Fourth weekend.

“This has really got to be about not just fining people into compliance, but understanding the risk factors out there and the risks that they’re taking for their own health and the risk factors for everyone they come into contact with,” Mayor Lightfoot said.

“These agents have had offices in the city of Chicago for probably 50-plus years or longer,” she said. “They’re always actively engaged on a variety of different issues…so (they’re) adding to existing infrastructure that’s already been in place.”

“To contemplate a new franchise with ComEd, the city expects the company to implement (1) a comprehensive ethics reform plan that rebuilds trust with the city, its residents and its businesses, and (2) my administration’s policy priorities around energy and sustainability, equitable economic development, utility affordability and transparency,” Lightfoot wrote.

John Lausch Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, made the announcement Friday, saying the charges are the first federal prosecutions in Chicago under the Department of Justice’s Operation Legend.

The suspects, all males between 14 and 20 years old, approached the man in his car, opened the car door and pulled him out in the 200 block of East Grand Avenue at 10 a.m. Sunday.

The cost of ComEd’s corruption has become a rallying cry for the activists and aldermen who have been pushing the city to municipalize its electric utility since last year. The company is scheduled to provide a report to the City Council Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy Thursday as required under the terms of its 30-year franchise agreement.

A task force formed by the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection conducted 55 investigations of bars and restaurants this weekend, officials said. Each citation comes with a $10,000 fine.

“A permit can be denied … based on history of compliance or material threat to continued compliance,” a city spokesperson confirmed to Block Club. This is in contrast to Illinois regulators.

Lightfoot said when the city offered $3 million in housing assistance back in March, 83,000 people applied for 2,000 available grants.

CIRT, the Critical Incident Response Team, includes 250 officers to focus on special events, marches, and other large gatherings. And the community safety team’s 300 officers will operate on the South and West sides, tasked with interacting with the community in a positive way.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago’s high gun violence rates were a result of the city “being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control.”