At least nine Democratic state lawmakers, including six members of the Illinois House, have said Madigan should immediately resign his post. Some other Democratic legislators, as well as Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. JB Pritzker, have stopped short of calling on Madigan to step down immediately.

The district also said in a statement that a survey of families showed 41% of elementary school parents and 38% of high school parents would not send their children to school buildings.

“But the generous deal Chicago teachers got last year, after union leaders rejected an independent fact-finder’s report on what they deserved, bought no partnership from the union…So what about those wraparound services students, especially minority kids in struggling neighborhoods, desperately need, and which CTU takes credit for striking over? They won’t get them.”

“It seems to us from the outset that if we want meaningful police reform that involves more of the kinds of social engineering the county resolution calls for, the effort will require more money, not the same amount and certainly not less. More and better training costs more, not less. More community interaction means more money, not less. More minority hires is apt to mean more money for recruiting, not less.”

The scathing enforcement action criticizes how officers failed to do basic checks on tips from confidential informants before obtaining and executing search warrants on homes. The letter uses these cases to demonstrate how police then raided the wrong place, using force by pointing guns at innocent families and children and traumatizing them.

Paul Vallas: “CTU calls the mayor gutless for a proposal to partially open schools, which she then sidelined? Wrong. It takes incredible guts to open schools, even part time, in a pandemic. It’s downright cowardly to just throw up your hands and refuse to even try. For Chicago’s kids, we can get creative, we can explore every avenue, and find a way to implement every safety measure.”

Said Chicago’s top public health official Dr. Allison Arwady, “As we’re planning ahead for a complicated school district like CPS, we need to make these decisions a month in advance. And if we’ve added 80 to 100 new cases over the last month, without seeing turnaround, we very easily could add that many or more in the month ahead.”

“This retaliation is not just about gang members. It’s about the collateral damage. These are not marksmen,” said Tamar Manasseh, founder of anti-violence group Mothers Against Senseless Killings Chicago.

A group of tech and health care organizations have launched a data platform to track and monitor how Covid-19 is affecting Chicagoans.

The man with the warrant out for his arrest bore the same name, but was born in 1986, has tattoos on both arms and stands over 6 feet tall. Turner Sr. – ascended to the role of Deputy Majority Leader in the House before stepping down in 2010 – is nearly 70, smaller in stature and has no visible tattoos.

A community survey generating more than 9,100 responses showed 52.5 percent of students, parents, alumni and community members favored discontinuing the mascot, “Indian” name and related Native American imagery. The mascot has been part of the school’s history for more than 100 years.

It’s gatherings among friends and family are what’s driving the rise in coronavirus cases here, officials have said. Birthday parties and other events among family and friends have turned into super-spreader events.

None of the four shootings was fatal.

It remains to be seen whether the shift toward more aggressive federal prosecution will have any impact on the so-called “revolving-door” bonds that critics including Chicago police Superintendent David Brown have pointed to as a cause of violence.