Just 36,531 of the doses shipped here have been injected into the arms of people living in Chicago zip codes. The remaining 87,894 doses were either given to non-city residents who work in Chicago, or are sitting in a freezer waiting to be administered.

The federal consent decree governing the operations of the Chicago Police Department requires the creation of an elected oversight board, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot supported one of the proposals during her 2019 campaign for mayor; she vowed to implement it during her first 100 days in office. The consent decree will reach its second anniversary on Feb. 29.

“We cannot sit back and allow a generation to just falter because of made up reasons around why we can’t do reopening,” district CEO Janice Jackson said at a news conference. “A year from now there is going to be a reckoning around what happened to those students that have been sitting at home, not being properly served.”

“Absolutely, we want to make sure that teachers are in the queue for the next round,” Lightfoot said Tuesday. “But I’ll say it again, we have got to get more vaccine, we can’t create an expectation of hope for people and not be able to deliver, that would be the worst kind of cruelty that could be created.”

“Obviously, what I did in reaction to learning about the reporting was to press again on fixing the systemic problem that was leading to too many officers going into homes for which there was absolutely zero evidence of criminal conduct. And I think that that was a proper focus for me,” she said.

Paul Vallas: “Has City Hall, CPS or the CTU even noticed this past year that at least 83 school-age children were murdered — including 14 under the age of 10 — and well over 500 shot? Do they even wonder if having over 100,000 high school students at home or on the streets is a contributing factor? Do they even care?”

Ald. Brian Hopkins of the 2nd Ward said Macy’s leaving would be “a devastating loss….It’s going to be a hole in Water Tower Place. It’s going to be a challenge to bring in a new tenant and fill that [space].”

“We borrowed the name ‘Not Horrible’ from a statement Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans made during budget hearings on November 4, 2019: ‘It’s not by magic that we haven’t had any horrible incidents occur using this new [affordable bail] system.’ Evans’ claim was false at the time and has been repeatedly shown to be false since — unless his definition of ‘horrible’ is different from most Chicagoans’.”

Called “The Top 50,” the report lists the 50 Property Index Numbers (PINs) with the largest tax increases from 2000 to 2019 in Chicago and the suburbs, both residential and commercial. The report is a new chapter in “The Pappas Study,” which shows the county’s tax bills virtually doubling over 20 years, an increase that is nearly triple the 36 percent rise in the cost of living index.

Mark Konkol: “While the fearmongering propaganda and Twitter hypocrisy are important to note, they shouldn’t distract from the fact that CTU bosses never say exactly why the school system’s detailed safety protocols remain wholly unacceptable for a slow rollout for socially distant in-person learning. Those protocols are strikingly similar to what American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten called for in an op-ed in The Hill offering a ‘blueprint to safely open schools.'”

“Over the past 20 years, (taxes have) risen about four times faster than the rate of local inflation and more than twice as fast as Chicago-area wages, eating up more and more of the average homeowner’s disposable income. And there’s more to come, thanks to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s latest budget, which raises Chicago property taxes again.”

She said that at the current pace of vaccine deliveries by the federal government, it will take almost a year and a half to vaccinate all of Chicago. “That is way too long, and frankly unacceptable.”

Should teachers and staff continue to not report to schools as expected, the district may begin a progressive discipline policy that could lead to their firing, CPS’ CEO indicated Tuesday.

Some Chicago Public Schools teachers expected to report to the classroom ahead of preschool students’ anticipated return next week stayed home Monday over coronavirus concerns.

The CTU’s so-called “tactics” include telling members they will call for a strike vote as early as mid-January if CPS does not change its return-to-buildings policy. But many teachers – including Jacobs – said they will walk, if needed, a mere 15 months after the last CTU strike ended.

“I understand that it was insensitive and wrong of me to go on this trip for winter break and for me to share photos of it at a time when thousands of my union sisters and brothers – and the families we serve – are refraining from travel or making only essential plans outside of the home,” read a post purported to be from Sarah Chambers on an educators forum on Facebook.