Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted up a storm late Friday afternoon, accusing the Chicago Teachers Union of making unreasonable demands when it comes to getting their members vaccinated. “They want to prioritize teachers over every other resident in our city,” Lightfoot said.

The 58-page lawsuit accuses Northwestern officials of failing to take action after Hayden Richardson tried relaying concerns to her coach and also after she filed a formal Title IX complaint. In addition to the lawsuit, the Daily Northwestern reported Thursday that numerous Black cheerleaders have detailed instances of racial discrimination on the team.

Aldermen Stephanie Coleman said since the community-based program began Jan. 22 not a single carjacking has happened at locations where the volunteers were stationed. “To have CPD join us today, I know that we are going to be a better city.”

According to the universities’ research, less than a quarter of pandemic gun buyers were making first time purchases. Most already owned a gun and were buying more. But according to the study, the majority of those who were buying guns for the first time were African-American, with a vast majority of them citing personal protection as the reason.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office said the Trump Hotel has been in violation of state law for more than three years following the expiration of a needed permit. The complaint asked for the maximum penalty, which would charge $50,000 each for two violations and an extra $10,000 for each day the violations continued.

“Chicago will first have to make substantially more progress in fixing the problems that led to the exodus in the first place. That means reducing crime, and improving schools and policing. That means rebuilding the South and West sides with the same political zeal and public subsidies now being used to turn former scrapyards and railroad yards into big, pricey mega-neighborhoods.”

More than 300 CPS family members, mentors and community organizers on Friday discussed the Trust Learning Care plan, which includes a list of demands for CPS meant to advance remote learning – including greater accessibility of mental health services for both students and parents.

Al Molina, another CPS parent of diverse learners and a former school administrator, said academic gaps widen the longer in-person learning is delayed. “While some groups of children had achievement gaps prior to the pandemic, I have to believe that they have just increased.”

“People are texting each other, running around the city to try to get a dose of vaccine,” CTU President Jesse Sharkey said. “There is no attempt to coordinate that and try to figure out how those doses could go to people that help get our schools open.”

One of Dr. Jason Hill’s former students charged that he is “violently transphobic.” She claimed the professor “said that we would be discussing ‘if a biological man could ever be a woman.’” The student complained that this alleged remark Dr. Hill is accused of making was “not just offensive and hurtful, but it’s so archaic, useless and immature to have these kinds of conversations in class.”

Guidance from the Illinois Department of Public Health to prioritize detainees has drawn criticism as the vast majority of Illinois residents are still unable to access the coveted vaccine. The difficulty Chicago teachers have had trying to get vaccinated, for example, has played a major role in the ongoing battle over reopening schools.

DuPage County Health Department Executive Director Karen Ayala credits the partnership model they established right off the bat; They have 80 provider locations approved to give shots, and so far about 30 of them are getting regular shipments of vaccine. Also, they hired non-medical staff to shepherd patients through the physical process – allowing them to book appointments tightly.

Oak Lawn mayor: I’m writing this letter in response to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s dismissive response to our community’s outrage over the tragic killing of a beautiful young girl, a death that could have been – and should have been – prevented.

“This is a pandemic, and that means our schools have to get every single mitigation protection right if we’re serious about keeping children and adults safe,” CTU president Jesse Sharkey said Friday. “We’re deeply disappointed that the mayor has chosen to stop negotiating and instead move to lock out educators and shut down schools rather than work out our differences.”

Lightfoot has repeatedly insisted that the CPS plan has been thoroughly vetted by medical experts, and that it has been borne out in charter and Archdiocese classrooms in the city since the fall, as well as in pre-K and cluster learning classrooms that returned last month. The union has pushed back, saying that there have been enough coronavirus cases reported in the district since pre-K and cluster students returned to classrooms that they are justified in seeking a return to remote learning until educators can be vaccinated.

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Police say there are numerous reasons for the increase, many related to the pandemic such as the closing of schools. But they also note that, thanks to changes to state law, juveniles now face much lighter punishments than they did previously for crimes such as carjackings because there of restrictions on moving them to adult court.

St. Mary Star of the Sea is located on the Southwest Side, in a neighborhood with one of the highest COVID rates. Yet the school has been open for in-person learning 5 days a week since August. “With the protocols in place, I feel safe coming to work every day,” teacher Mary Ann Delasso said.

Two days after changing floor leaders, a defiant Lightfoot denied her combative personality had turned her contentious relationship with the City Council from bad to worse.