“I was at my home and I heard gunshots,” Preckwinkle said during a budget briefing. “I can confirm that there was a violent incident two weeks ago. A member of my security detail was sitting outside my home, in his police vehicle.” The officer is a member of the Cook County Forest Preserve Police and was parked right outside Preckwinkle’s home.

This is the second time the court has denied an application for an injunction against the Obama Presidential Center, which will be overseen by the nonprofit Obama Foundation.

“Though Chicago is ranked among the richest cities in the world, more than 39% of its residents qualify as low-income. Though the city is home to more Fortune 500 company headquarters than almost any other American city, one in four of our children live in poverty. That is why Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Program, which she unveiled in her 2022 proposed budget, is so critical.”

“People in all neighborhoods, and tourists with money to spend, are afraid to walk the streets at night or drive lest they’re carjacked, and on Chicago expressways some 185 people have been shot this year. All of America can see. And President Biden comes to Chicago to applaud himself on his Covid mandate? Get real for once in your life Joe. Behold Chicago.”

Lou Presta said unspecified health conditions preclude him from serving as mayor, but not from taking a full-time job as economic development director at a salary of $65,000 a year – the same salary Presta now makes as mayor. He was charged in U.S. District Court last year with accepting cash bribes from a representative of a red-light camera company that does business in his town.

More than 800,000 readers of Traveler magazine voted in this year’s survey, with Chicago winning out as the No. 1 big city to visit. Traveler started surveying readers on what is the best big U.S. city in 2015. New York City took first up until 2016, but Chicago has claimed the spot every year since then.

According to the White House, the president will be speaking in Chicago about the importance of COVID-19 vaccine requirements.

“We need to attack a lot of these buildings that are quote, unquote `vacant,’ but we know that they’re party venues…They’re just calling themselves vacant to go under the radar and, at the same time, the property owner who may be out in California or New York is getting a tax break,” Buildings Commissioner Matthew Beaudet said. “There’s been several bills in Springfield [to change that], but they always get crushed by the lobbyists down there.”

“A darker and more depressing option for the police is simply to stop policing. If prosecutors like Foxx, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore, and a growing cast of others won’t prosecute crimes, then maybe the police shouldn’t bother trying to arrest people. Just stay in your patrol car and drive around, cleaning up the shell casings and the bodies after the shooting stops…call it the Foxx Effect.”

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has fore more than three years stationed 30 to 100 of his people in Austin each day. Chicago police are still in charge, but the sheriff’s department helps. “I think they approach you more humanely. You know with a decent conversation versus, I’m in charge,” said Rosie Dawson, Director of Westside Health Authority.