Ald. Jason Ervin suggested the department needs to send 100 recruits through the academy each month to repair the “sense of lawlessness” in his West Side ward. “You don’t want to hire 100 or more a month because you will hire the wrong people,” CPD Supt. David Brown told him.

It was the second time a vote on the issue was postponed this year, although the Chicago Public Schools voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day last year.

Kim Foxx compared Mayor Lightfoot’s remarks Tuesday to an infamous headline 40 years ago; In 1981, then-Mayor Jane Byrne moved into the Cabrini-Green public housing development for three weeks. At the time, Foxx was a preteen living in the Near North Side housing development. “And I remember the feelings of the people who lived there who didn’t want elected officials doing stunts – they wanted solutions. That’s where we are right now.”

“Let’s remember that Ken Griffin brought you Bruce Rauner,” Pritzker said. Still, “we are nearly at a state of emergency in our need to address crime…We are very concerned about it at the state level and providing resources at a local level, not just to Chicago but to Rockford and other places around the state. But we need local leadership, including the corporate leadership, to step up and help our cities.”

“Something is really off right now in the No. 1 Best Big City in the U.S. and it needs fixing, fast. We could start with politicians reining in their scorched-earth, bomb-throwing, hyperdefensive staff and stand together to fix our problems instead of calling each other liars.”

“When you have a situation – two kids getting into a fight – and they’re supposed to use their fists, and one shows up to a knife, that’s not fair,” legal analyst Irv Miller said. “That’s not mutual combat. That’s first-degree murder.”

Connecticut has been removed from the list and joins California and Puerto Rico as the only states or territories not on the advisory.

Mark Konkol: The shooting victim explained, “People ask if I’m going to move out of the city. I really don’t think so. I don’t feel unsafe in my everyday life, even though maybe my experience says the opposite. When you live in the city, you have some more inherent dangers than living in the suburbs, maybe. But the trade-offs are worth it.”

“This as the country is going through a nationwide labor shortage — restaurants, hotels, and other in-person service industry employers continue to be unable to find enough willing workers to fill their open positions.”

“We have to tell the truth about what’s happening here,” Foxx said. “We need to stop playing the political games and get to the work of healing in our communities. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to build the strongest cases possible, not just for arrests but for conviction, to hold those who cause harm accountable.…However, we will do it with the Constitution and abiding by the civil rights that are afforded to all.”