The ordinance the City Council passed removes reference to gender from the liquor license statutes governing how much flesh can be shown by performers in various Chicago establishments.

Groups such as Black Lives Matter Chicago and several South Side pastors want $157 million cut from Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s budget. But they want the majority of the money funneled toward health services and housing in the city’s poorest communities.

“It used to be mainly white and Indian races that came in,” owner Tee Scott said. “Now it’s a mix, with 25% to 30% Black customers, because now they know that I’m here.”

At Mayor Lightfoot’s request, Police Supt. David Brown hand-delivered a letter from the mayor to Barr on Wednesday. In that letter, Lightfoot decried the “continuous stream of misinformation coming from the White House about Chicago.”

“But obviously this is a different time, and I don’t expect to see mass crowds of trick-or-treating like we have in years past,” Lightfoot said. “It’s not safe for children. It’s not safe for adults.”

“Housing in our city is a human right, and we have plenty of organizations and people across the city who have seen investment happen, and people be displaced,” said Woodlawn Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20^th).

Clerks and other staff required to report to work in person on August 26 say not everyone at CPS is wearing masks or practicing safe social distancing.

Hotel construction will continue and the management company, Maverick Hotels and Restaurants, said it still plans to reopen in November. Navy Pier said winter guests will be limited to the hotel and parking garage, and may not roam the pier.

While the number of homicides did decline in Chicago by 45% from July to August, CPD data shows that as of Sunday, the number of both homicides and shootings are still up 52% year-to-date over the same period in 2019.

The ban is only temporary, though, and could be lifted by city officials when they deem it safe for one-night stays to return,

Locally, the latest breakdown of arrests shows 102 arrests which includes 27 for narcotics-related crimes, 72 charged with firearms-related crimes and four others have been charged with other violent crimes.

“The Palmer House is something else entirely, and there has been enough going on in recent days for preservationists and lovers of retro urban glamor to be very afraid of its future prospects. The Loop, like all urban centers, needs huge hotels in order to function on a 24-hour basis, filling the nearby restaurants, music venues and, of course, the equally historic theaters on the surrounding blocks.”

“We can’t ask individual taxpayers to give us more if we don’t prove to them that we are being good fiduciaries of their tax dollars and that includes making painful sacrifices,” the mayor said.

“Foxx’s claim is skewed because she limits the amount of time that gun defendants are given to qualify as a re-offender…she drives the re-offend statistic down by creating a tight window of opportunity for someone to get caught with another gun.”

“Each weekend brings more shootings and more death in the street gang wars. More children are forgotten. And City Hall worries about optics.”