“It’s not racist, because there is no racism in learning the truth about our history,” said Susanne Angerer, parent of a District 65 third grader.

“The wildings downtown right now where you have a mob of about 30 kids standing around beating people up on the corners, taking phones and purses in broad daylight,” Ald. Anthony Napolitano said. “Every week, there’s another police vehicle or fire vehicle or city vehicle being destroyed by wildings. … We’ve got four-wheelers and motorcycles on sidewalks on Michigan Avenue riding around. If you drive down the Kennedy Expressway, the entire city is covered in graffiti. I’ve never seen anything this bad before. … We’re a lawless city right now.”

“Give us a sign that you prioritize new businesses trying to get a foothold in Chicago, instead of your leverage and control. Small businesses are the key to the future. They bring jobs, personality and opportunities to our many neighborhoods. We cannot afford to wait for the entire City Council to decide whether to turn that key in the lock.”

“If we allow the virus to continue linger here in Chicago, we will likely see further mutations, some of which our current vaccines may not be able to protect against and have to re-enforce some of the restrictions that have come to infamously define much of 2020 and part of 2021,” Mayor Lightfoot said.

Florida, Louisiana and Nevada, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands were added to the advisory as all 50 states see a rise in coronavirus cases. Last week, Missouri and Arkansas were both added to the travel advisory after several weeks with no states on the list.

If infection numbers continue to creep up, one parent – now working as a lead vaccine canvasser – believes “CPS will just shut (in-person school) down. There was no middle ground last year.”

“Even though the answers varied when I asked people to describe their community — sometimes people would say it’s horrific or it’s a village — people described it as resilient,” the author said. “Even if someone had heard gun shots so often that they could now tell the type of bullet that the gun was firing … they were really interested in supporting and doing the work themselves trying to make their communities better.”

The city of Chicago and its police department did not have the “policies, reporting practices, training, equipment, data analysis, community engagement, or inter-agency coordination required to respond effectively” to widespread protests and unrest last summer, according to a new report filed in federal court by the independent monitoring team which tracks the Chicago Police Department’s compliance with the federal consent decree.

Ald. Brian Hopkins plans to introduce an ordinance changing the law to make it clear that the hiring and firing of ward superintendents is controlled by the local alderman – despite a report from the departing inspector general which recommends the Department of Human Resources “immediately remove” the ward superintendent’s job from the “exempt titles list” and conduct “all future hires … in accordance with the processes and procedures under the city’s hiring plan.”

The most recent claim of the Julianna Zobrist could seal her reputation as the most ridiculed figure in Chicago since Steve Bartman.

“Though the CTU has piously claimed it threw support behind an elected school board to advance democracy, the sole motive behind the union’s tireless efforts for the creation of an elected school board is the CTU’s single-minded and passionate determination to exercise uncontested control over Chicago’s public school system. “

“It is imperative for our students to learn to think critically in an environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity,” Lemont High School District 210 said in a statement.