The plan, “Our City, Our Safety,” proposed flooding the 15 most violent community areas with resources — not just violence intervention programs but help with jobs and housing and health. Experts in the field say the plan is admirable, but they have serious doubts about the way it’s being implemented.

After two students were killed in off-campus shootings this year, the Hyde Park university faces a twin test that few of its rivals at the uppermost end of the higher education market must overcome.

Chicago leaders are searching for a company to build the city’s first casino, but big gambling operators are concerned that the government’s plans will be too costly to make the project feasible.

The city is calling for a megaresort with hotel rooms, meeting space and a surrounding entertainment district, according to a request for proposals issued in April. Chicago is hoping a casino will aid its underfunded

From his cell in solitary confinement, attorney Robert M. Kowalski pleads with the Illinois Supreme Court to lift a February order suspending his law license over allegations that he committed embezzlement and bankruptcy fraud. A motion filed with the Supreme Court asks why they haven’t also suspended the law licenses of two Chicago aldermen awaiting trial in federal court: Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, nephew and grandson of the city’s longest serving mayors, and Ald. Ed Burke, whose wife Anne B. Burke is the Illinois Supreme Court chief justice

According to Chicago’s violence reduction dashboard, the Austin community has been victimized to more than 180 shootings so far this year. That is nearly one shooting a day. Superintendent Brown says much of the violence is being fueled by two things: revenge and silence.

CPS planned as of Friday to ask the Board of Education as soon as next week to authorize rehiring the janitorial behemoth to clean all its school buildings, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

“To reach herd immunity against COVID-19 and rescue the economy from another downturn, employers must mandate vaccines…. The virus now is almost exclusively killing people who haven’t been vaccinated….Here in Chicago, only 51.7 percent of residents are fully vaccinated; statewide, that number rests at 50.3 percent. That’s a better level than many areas of the country, but still far short of the 70 percent threshold that’s widely considered to be the goal of public health officials seeking herd immunity.”

CDPH said when buildings are shut down for long period of times, as seen with the coronavirus pandemic, the legionella bacteria can grow and multiply in water systems.

After months of decline, the number of new COVID-19 cases in Illinois recently doubled in a period of nine days.

“The reason they were really leaving was because everybody else left and they were afraid of crime.”

In Chicago, the freight railroads are trying to catch up as containers arrive faster than they can be switched for onward transport, leading to ever-higher stacks of boxes at the region’s yards. The strains are being exacerbated by labor and equipment shortages across the shipping, trucking and rail industries.