Downtown merchants in Lower Manhattan, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and San Francisco saw an average foot traffic decline of between 64% and 77% for the period, with downtown San Francisco suffering the most. Meanwhile, the suburbs saw a decline of between 31% and 45%, with the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois faring the best.

Asked if Madigan should resign as speaker, Lightfoot did not directly answer, saying she would have “more to say about this at another time,” but said it’s clear Madigan currently doesn’t have the votes to keep his seat.

Over the past three decades, home values have grown less in Chicago than in any of the country’s largest U.S. metro areas. A home purchased in the Chicago area in first-quarter 1991 would be worth about 133 percent more now, according to data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. That’s the least growth among the nation’s top 20 metro areas. Overall, home values here have grown even less than they have in Detroit, the big city that has struggled most with economic decline.

“Our democracy depends upon the people believing … that the leaders stand for them. That we are working hard every single day on behalf of the people and not on behalf of ourselves,” she said.

“Our analysis of applications data finds that Black students are less likely to apply to a high-performance high school compared to their non-Black peers, and this ultimately translates into different rates of enrollment in high-performance schools by student race/ethnicity,” according to the report, which notes similar but smaller differences between students living in neighborhoods with different socioeconomic statuses.

“I would hope the community is appalled by the fact that we would even say something like, ‘if we could get Northwestern to agree to pay for the fire service.’ Because their not agreeing to pay for the fire service means that our community has an additional $658,986 attached to their real estate tax bill for this bill,” one alderman said.

The new guidelines released Wednesday will allow people who have come in contact to someone infected with the virus to resume normal activity after 10 days if no symptoms are reported, or 7 days if they receive a negative test result. That’s down from the 14-day period recommended since the onset of the pandemic.

“We have to shift from looking at just percentages,” CPS CEO Janice Jackson said, acknowledging that low opt-in percentages among Black and Latino families were cited as one of the reasons district leaders initially delayed a September reopening. “I know we focused on that in the summer, but at the end of day, even if it’s 40% or 20%, essentially we’re talking about tens of thousands of people in this city who want an option other than what we’re offering.”

Images of mounting mail outside Mount Greenwood’s post office have been circulating on social media. Lori Cross said her mail comes once about every two weeks and when it does arrive, it’s at night.

Chicago’s set-aside program is one of the nation’s last, but the road to maintaining it has been rocky.

Lightfoot also plans to borrow against future revenue from the sale of recreational and medical marijuana to avert the need for 350 layoffs and issue $1.54 billion in general obligation bonds to bankroll the first two years of her five-year capital plan.

“There is a lot of confusion about how this new declaration fits into existing cases,” said attorney Michael Zink, adding that in Cook County, everyone has different interpretations of the moratorium. “The judge may side with the landlord or the judge may side with the tenant. It’s all going to come down to who has more proof.”