“I have devoted my entire life to issues around equity and access and now, specifically, to boys and young men of color,” she said. “And I could not save one of the boys of color in my own life, which to me means if I couldn’t do it, if my family could be exposed to this horror, then really it could happen to anyone. I don’t say that to be alarmist or to use scare tactics. I say it to say: we are truly all in this together.”

“Cherry-picking statistics to minimize PR damage doesn’t help. It only creates the impression that the people at the very top of our public hierarchy don’t really understand the problem and that, ultimately, no one is capable of fixing it.”

The plan, drafted in the height of the pandemic, sets equity and mobility justice as a guiding star and outlines how CDOT can deploy resources to address safety, health, accessibility and environmental concerns for parts of the city most in need, setting one- and three-year benchmarks on dozens of goals.

Since 2018, the CBS 2 Investigators have chronicled Chicago’s unfair and potentially unlawful water billing practices. “Getting Hosed” started with one couple billed $58,000 for water they didn’t use. Every bill we’ve examined thereafter has been drastically inflated and the City department whose taxpayer-funded responsibility it is to provide safe, affordable drinking water has utterly failed consumers and undermined our investigative efforts at every turn.

“Obama is using his birthday to raise funds for his planned ‘presidential center,’ a monument to the man and his legacy that is scheduled to break ground as soon as this month on prime parkland in Chicago…Though former presidents often create presidential ‘libraries,’ this is not a library because it is far more elaborate than what is permitted under regulations governing presidential libraries.”

“Especially since the 1990s, the city has been a magnet for ambitious college-educated professionals from all over the Midwest, and all over the country—and not so much for other age groups… After making their marks in business, law, academia, and the arts, it was only natural that they would try to conquer politics, too. “

Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Waukegan has been renamed to honor John Lewis, the late civil rights icon and longtime congressman because Jefferson — the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s third president — owned slaves. However, two other suburban schools are named for Jefferson, and it appears that won’t change anytime soon.

According to published reports, the city has struggled to attract formal bids for the casino, with some major casino operators declining to get involved; Local companies who have expressed interest have close ties to Mayor Lightfoot, which could put the mayor in a potentially awkward position if they were the only bidders.