Kevin Quirk’s placed blame for the Capitol attack squarely on Republicans. “Some crazy Republicans have again tried to accuse Antifa of being responsible for this. There is no evidence of that. It is false, blatantly false. It was a right wing Republican terrorists who were attacking our nation’s capital,” Quirk said.

Among the weekend’s wounded were a two-year-old girl who was shot while riding in the backseat of a vehicle, and a 13-year-old boy who was on the sidewalk when a vehicle pulled up beside him and someone inside the vehicle opened fire.

The lower values in Black and Latinx communities are partially due to historical policies that built smaller, older, and more densely concentrated homes in Black and Latinx neighborhoods as well as contemporary policies that continue to perpetuate socioeconomic inequality across racial groups. Yet, even when the researchers took all of this into consideration and compared neighborhoods with homes of the same size and quality and also with comparable socioeconomic status and location, the inequalities in appraised values still exist.

With the backing of all three of the City Council’s major caucuses, the compromise measure likely has at least the 26 votes it needs to pass the City Council as well as the 34 votes needed to override a mayoral veto, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th Ward) said.

“What we want to do is proceed with an all-hands approach,” said CPD Superintendent David Brown, acknowledging that he is moving nine of the department’s district commanders from day time — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. shifts to night time — 3 to 11 p.m.

House Bill 3496, which applies only in Chicago, would expand the definition of public school employees who can unionize to include supervisory employees who do not 1) have a significant role in negotiating collective bargaining agreements or 2) formulate or determine employer-wide management policies and practices. That includes school principals.

In March, a local business group, the Chicago Loop Alliance, found in a survey that a year into the pandemic the number of people coming downtown for work was still below 20% of normal. “I definitely think the Loop will return back to normal at some point,” one bakery owner said, although she doesn’t expect that to happen before 2022.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot joined Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the state of the pandemic in her city after the CDC announced last week that fully vaccinated Americans can stop wearing masks. “To say, well, if you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask, that’s great, but what about all the other people that are out there that aren’t vaccinated, and there’s no way to know that?”

“The rollout obviously is, the reporting has been, was a bit abrupt, and I think they’ve got a lot of clarification that they need to do,” Lightfoot said. “I know for me personally, I’m gonna continue to wear a mask in public and I’m gonna encourage others to do so.”

Executive Director Ray McGury told the Naperville Sun vaccinations are only available to those age 12 and older, leaving the park district stuck.

The new ordinance was put in place after residents complained of increased crime, public urination, crowds causing a ruckus outside bars, safety concerns, and police fearing for their own safety.

The mass protest, which was led by the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine, began with a rally near Michigan Avenue and Ida

Last August, a downstate judge had ordered the state to accept the transfer “of all offenders as required by the Illinois Unified Code of Corrections.” But the Illinois Appellate Court reversed that order. In the past few days, 761 people were awaiting transfer from the County Jail to state prisons, about 15% of the jail population, Dart said.

A 2-year-old girl is among the weekend shooting victims in Chicago.