Jim grew up on the Southwest Side and went to St. Bede the Venerable grade school and Bogan High School. He never forgot the hot, sticky smell of Vietnam. And he never forgot the eight Army buddies he lost there in

“The legislation is credit negative for the city of Chicago,” said the advisory from Moody’s Investors Service, “because it will cause the city’s reported unfunded pension liabilities, and thus its annual contribution requirements, to rise.”

“There’s a difference between ensuring a pandemic-safe environment for students and staff, and sidetracking movement toward in-class instruction solely for the sake of exerting leverage on CPS and Lightfoot.”

Mayor Lightfoot ordered the statue in Arrigo Park near the city’s Little Italy neighborhood taken down in July along with one in Grant Park, after police clashed near the Grant Park statue with protesters who wanted to tear it down.

She explained that the weeklong lessons teach children about “white supremacy” and “white privilege” and “a number of negative things that have happened to African Americans within this country…But it doesn’t speak about when African Americans have fought against white supremacy or fought against oppression. So it was very much speaking about the one side, a very negative side, and nothing really about the things black people have accomplished in this country.”

More than 4,100 people have signed up for the Chicago Department of Public Health’s homebound vaccination program; so far, 532 people have gotten vaccinated. Some people could have to wait until the fall to get shots.

“The superintendent said that everything that we saw last year we can expect it to be 10 times worse than last year. The fact that he’s bracing for things to be worse … while still implementing the same policy that failed our city last year really has me worried,” Ald. Ray Lopez said.

Chicago will host a virtual investors’ conference May 6 with the municipal market looking for insights into how the city will use its $1.8 billion of new federal relief, manage rising pension payments and the long-term COVID-19 fiscal fallout.

CPS officials have directed 5,350 high school teachers to return to buildings Monday with or without a CTU agreement, and about 26,000 students in grades 9-12 are expected back the following week. Bargaining is expected to continue through the weekend.

“Let the judges decide on a case-by-case basis who should stay and who should go on the basis of they’re willing to cooperate with landlords,” the landlord said. “If there is a payment plan in place, awesome. If there is communication in place, awesome. If they’re clearly trying to dodge that particular rental owner and not pay rent and squat, we need to do something about that.”

Competition for talent has become cutthroat in Chicago’s restaurant world as COVID restrictions loosen and diners venture out again. Workers are tantalized with more money and options, and employers are poaching from competitors.

There were only 22 expressway shootings in the same time period last year. Yet 2020 ended with 128 people shot while riding in a vehicle – a 40 percent jump from 2019, when there were only 52 shootings the whole year.

Chicago’s water department says it doesn’t know where all of the city’s lead service lines are located.

“The contractor’s fraudulent scheme misrepresented over 70,000 labor hours across four contracts,” according to a report from Inspector General Joseph Ferguson. “The contractor encouraged and, in some cases, mandated that employees who lived outside of Chicago nonetheless acquire government documents with Chicago addresses so that they could count toward compliance. In other cases, workers were unknowingly assigned Chicago addresses, including the address of the company’s general counsel, on certified payroll submitted to the city.”