“Here in Chicago our public school system has received almost $2 billion for COVID relief. What we need to do is make sure those funds fund the recovery, fund engagement, ensure that the families who have suffered the most under this pandemic, black families, brown families, have the ability to recover and are heard in this process,” (CTU Vice President Stacy Davis) Gates remarked.

The message about the drone program from Karen Conway, director of police research and development, was among a cache of hacked city emails that were leaked online last month. Other emails show the Chicago Fire Department started a similar program and spent at least $26,000 on drones.

Researchers said the release of people held at the Cook County Jail — sometimes only for a matter of hours — was the biggest factor fueling Chicago’s COVID-19 racial disparities in his study, outpacing higher-profile issues such as poverty, population density and public transportation use.

The Chicago Board of Ethics voted unanimously Monday to refer the matter to the city’s Law Department, which could sue the second-longest serving alderman on the City Council to force her to pay the $5,000 fine and return the improper $48,500 campaign contribution to Benchmark Construction Co.

Last Friday, ridership was over 32,000 passenger trips, which is the highest since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Still, that only represents 12% of the typical number of weekday riders, which had previously been averaging about 280,000 system-wide.

Nearly a year after Northwestern Pritzker School of Law lost its dean to a role within the broader university, it has found a successor: Hari Osofsky, an energy transition and climate change scholar who is currently dean of Penn State Law.

At North Grand High School in Chicago, Principal Emily Feltes said some of her students took on jobs to support their families and others fell ill. “We have done everything that we think that we can to try to re-engage kids — to try to help them. And I know that my colleagues are all working really hard too. But the reality is that this has been a worldwide and a national trauma.”

With the exception of New York City, most municipalities do not include in their annual financial reports the finances of large, underlying government units for which city taxpayers are also responsible, such as school districts, and transit and housing authorities.

The hospital also admitted to vaccinating ineligible people at Trump Tower and a luxury Gold Coast jewelry shop, but it downplayed other questionable vaccinations in the report: a suburban church, a Villa Park religious school, and suburbanites with familial ties to a Loretto doctor.

The investigation into the soldiers began after one person was shot and killed and seven others were wounded at a South Side birthday party on March 26. Police said five of the firearms were purchased from Federal Firearms Licensed dealers in the Clarksville, Tennessee area.

But taxpayer costs for an environmental cleanup and public works needed for the multiyear project could cost almost as much.

“Current data show that the vaccine is safe and effective in children, and it not only protects our kids, but also their families and our communities,” Dr. Alison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, said in a statement.

Chicago leaders say it’s not only safe for workers to return to downtown offices, it’s also critical for the city’s survival.

Biden had considered naming Emanuel to serve as his transportation secretary but ultimately passed him over in the face of fierce opposition from some in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and liberal activists.

“It is well past time that we utilize this moment to not just sprint back to normalcy, because normalcy for many people meant food deserts and unemployment and brutalization,” Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson said.

“Some of the smartest people I ever saw were in trading pits. They might have had a college education, and they might not have. There weren’t a lot of Ivy-educated or elite school-educated people on the floor. Not too many MBA’s either…. Most of us didn’t respect people from that part of the world, and they didn’t respect us either.”

They are seeing more of the people they arrest right back out on the street, which they say makes cops question why they are even arresting them in the first place. “You can smell the fear or the hesitancy of an officer in how they police. You take advantage of that. They feel like they’re able to do whatever they can and get away with it,” Paul said.