When asked about whether he offered to send in the Illinois National Guard to the city, Pritzker said the state police is doing everything it can to support the city, as it did during protests and looting earlier this summer. “Everything and anything that we’re asked to do, we’ll be helpful with.”

The tossed cases involved some of the most serious charges — murder, sex crimes, drug offenses and attacks on police officers. The analysis also found that Foxx’s conviction rate over her first three years — 66 percent — paled in comparison to Alvarez’s last three years, which was 75 percent.

Alderman Brian Hopkins said the mayor and police are to blame for not being prepared after getting intelligence about what was going to happen. “They waited for this to get out of control before they started bringing in police officers from all the neighboring districts, and by then it was too late.” But the mayor rebutted, “Alderman Hopkins has a pension (sic) for letting his mouth run before he actually gets the facts. I don’t think there’s any reason for me to say anything further.”

“This act of pillaging, robbing & looting in Chicago was humiliating, embarrassing & morally wrong. It must not be associated with our quest for social justice and equality,” Jackson tweeted. He added, “#DrKing, #MedgarEvers & #JohnLewis, our martyrs, cry together in shame. #StopTheViolence #SaveTheChildren.”

Laura Edwards, a Chicago Public Schools teacher, said the district “absolutely did not” prepare adequately for a remote school year. She said the district did not host training courses or coordinate plans for a fully remote school year.

“There has been an utter lack of teamwork, and our city is paying the price. Why, quite simply, did Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx hold dueling press conferences on Monday? Why did they not stand side-by-side on the same stage?”

“(C)itizens need to know that city and Cook County leaders are committed to keeping people safe, have a solid law enforcement plan in place and are in sync on priorities. There can’t be daylight between jurisdictions. If they don’t agree on the approach to protecting the public and prosecuting criminals, they will fail in their responsibilities.”

Between 3:47 p.m. and 6:36 p.m., investigators found example after example of people erroneously tweeting out that the victim was a 15 year old boy and that he had been shot — according to some inaccurate tweets — as many as 15 times. And this information was then shared and retweeted by thousands of followers online. In reality, the shooter was 20, armed and shot at police officers, according to CPD.

Robert Torres is the President of Parents for Peace and Justice, based on the Northwest Side: “The weight has got to come on the mayor of our city. There’s got to be some weight on her to come together, sit at the table with a lot of organizations that are willing to do stuff, right? Once again, it’s not what we do separately, but what we do together that’s important.”

Tom Kalayil, the franchisee of the ransacked 7-Eleven at State and Hubbard, said this was the second time the store was looted in recent months, on top of its sales being hard hit by coronavirus closures. He channeled Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s remarks from a morning press conference, calling the looting “criminal acts.”

Speaking Monday morning, Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown said looters have “learned there are no consequences,” a clear shot at Foxx over her handling of cases. She responded: “It does not serve us to have dishonest blame games, when all our hearts are breaking by what we’re seeing.”

“I want to see some folks go to jail, because what they did has nothing to do with criminal justice reform. And until that happens, looting is just one incident away from occurring again.”

At one point, shots were fired at police and officers returned fire. Thirteen officers were injured, but none in the shooting, police said. “This was an act of violence against our police officers and against our city,” according to Brown, who said nine Chicago police officers have been shot at in the past seven days.

Under the new contract, the district will cut $10.5 million from the police program by removing costs for days officers don’t serve in schools and cut $7.5 million by removing expenses associated with the mobile patrol officers who are assigned to schools but aren’t stationed inside them.

The lockdown will run 8 p.m.-6 a.m. daily for the foreseeable future, officials said.

In what appears to be a widespread, coordinated attack, dozens of stores, banks and other businesses were broken into across downtown Chicago overnight. The looting spread from the Loop, up to the Near North Side.

It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the unrest, which began shortly after midnight, but anti-police graffiti was seen in the area; Police reported a police involved shooting near Michigan Avenue and Lake Street. Hours earlier, dozens of people had faced off with police after officers shot and wounded a person Sunday afternoon in the city’s Englewood neighborhood.

A 14-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl were injured in separate incidents.

Foxx’s higher rates of dropped cases included people accused of murder, shooting another person, sex crimes, and attacks on police officers — as well as serious drug offenses that for decades have driven much of Chicago’s street violence. For the three-year period analyzed, Foxx’s office dropped 8.1% of homicide cases, compared with 5.3% under Alvarez, and 9.5% of felony sex crime cases; the rate was 6.5% for Alvarez.

An unidentified suspect was shot by police around 3 p.m. after initially firing at officers in Englewood.