Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara has blamed “absolutely miserable” working conditions for the mass exodus. “This department just doesn’t give a damn. You are literally treated like a rented mule and ridden until you can’t go any more. And then, on to the next. Today’s hero, tomorrow’s zero.”

Police said they recovered 172 guns over the weekend for a total of 5,546 so far this year. Said Supt. David Brown. “With our whole of government approach we’re actually starting to bend the curve of violence in the city but for those sensational incidents.”

“Last year over Father’s Day weekend, more than 60 people were shot, including a 3-year-old boy, Mekhi James, riding in a car with his father, and 13-year-old Amaria Jones, who was showing her mom TikTok dance moves inside her house when bullets came flying from outside. We begged for these two senseless shootings of children to serve as a springboard for real change. They did not.”

The impact of different treatment of different areas of the city can already be seen. So far, 124 of the 167 permits issued went to the north and northwest zones.

Hundreds of workers will still be private employees. Service requests will still go to a central staff. There will still be a vendor contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Some areas are seeing almost 16 percent increases over the past year.

Naperville officials say six people were hospitalized and 16 houses were deemed uninhabitable, with at least 125 more reports of property damage in the area.

Outgoing CEO Janice Jackson and other leaders saw this dire situation unfolding, laying out worrisome grade and attendance data for the Board of Education members during this pandemic school year; They warned that the school district could lose a whole generation of students.

Like small businesses across the country, most of the shops on Roscoe Street, a neighborhood shopping district on Chicago’s North Side, are eager to get back to normal after a year in which coronavirus restrictions held back foot traffic and limited in-person dining, shopping and services like haircuts. While business is coming back, small shops are now facing unexpected challenges, like shortages of workers, materials and capital that are preventing them from fully taking advantage of the state’s reopening earlier this month.

“What all these taxpayers and communities have in common is being held hostage to a public pension system that is grossly overcommitted and ruinously expensive. ‘Higher debt nearly always means higher property taxes,’ says the report (from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas), ‘whether those bigger tax bills come now or in years ahead.'”

A woman was also fatally stabbed on Wacker Drive in the Loop.