Chicago Police Department Sergeant Ammie Kessem, who’s also the 41st Ward Republican Committeeman in Chicago, voiced her support for the potential creation of a Turning Point USA chapter at William Howard Taft High School Dec. 9, stating on Facebook that several “brave students” are creating the high school chapter of the conservative group.

O’Hare also won the magazine’s Best Airport Dining category for the second consecutive year, topping airports in Doha, Qatar; Miami; Singapore and Amsterdam.

If historical trends hold true, you will certainly see some of it fund early-stage healthcare, fintech, and logistics companies, all of which have proven to be booming sectors in Chicago.

Jack Lavin, president and CEO of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, said what was a “low murmur has become a loud roar” from business leaders clamoring for solutions to those pressing issues. “There’s a sense of no plan. That’s what’s most concerning to the business community.”

Even with an influx of federal funds to Chicago — which has more lead service lines than any other American city — officials are likely to struggle to meet the accelerated timeline laid out by Vice President Kamala Harris as necessary to protect the health of Americans across the country.

Dr. Allison Arwady did note that even if city and CPS officials “double down” on safety precautions, it still may be necessary to move individual schools into remote learning in the event of a large outbreak.

Since 2015, 13,349 homeowners have been found to have gotten tax breaks they shouldn’t have received from the assessor’s office — and have been asked to repay $48.4 million in property taxes, penalties and interest. Two-thirds of that money has been repaid by homeowners making full or partial payments, but 2,170 others have paid nothing.

“We are understaffed,” Deputy Chief Sean Loughran said. “For a city our size, we should have a much bigger SWAT team. New York has a vastly larger [team]. So does L.A.”

With two weeks remaining in 2021, the homicide count is already higher than any year since 1996, when there were 856 as the crack epidemic started to lose steam.

However, retired Judge Ann Claire Williams of the Chicago-based law firm Jones Day found “failures in oversight and accountability” by each of the four city departments who were responsible for responding in the aftermath of the raid that touched off a political firestorm.

“The city is pleased that a neutral arbitrator selected by both parties upheld the City’s right to issue a vaccine mandate to its employees,” according to a statement from spokesperson Kristen Cabanban.

Spearheaded by Alds. Daniel La Spata and Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, 19 alderpeople have signed on to a resolution calling for the creation of a city-run pilot program to make more bathrooms accessible throughout Chicago’s neighborhoods.

The 16-year-old then battered a 27-year-old security guard who confronted her at the Nike Store with a Taser, police said.

The ordinance noted that parents may ask for sugary drinks instead of the options offered, which was intended to preserve consumer choice.

Village manager Thomas Phelan said the village has a shortfall of some $2 million or $3 million and that’s causing trouble in funding pensions.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin interrupted Heritage Foundation legal fellow Amy Swearer during her opening statement at a recent hearing titled “Combating Gun Trafficking and Reducing Violence in Chicago,” where she attempted to highlight the failures of liberal prosecutors to address violent crime.

“Just maybe, voters are starting to regret the consequences of electing progressives…. Chicago and New York may offer the most interesting clues. Kim Foxx won election in 2016 as Cook County, Ill., prosecutor with 72% of the vote. The pullback on prosecution came quickly…. In the November 2020 election, Ms. Foxx’s winning margin against a competitive Republican fell to 53%. In Cook County’s suburbs, she dropped from a previous majority to 43%. There have been more than 1,000 murders in Cook County this year.

“The mayor did not settle this case for an outrageous amount of taxpayer money because the city was legally exposed to a potentially high judgment. She used taxpayer money to jump-start her reelection campaign. In other words, there was no danger that the city was going to incur a large civil judgment in this lawsuit, because the case would have probably not made it to trial. The legal theory under which it was filed was flawed.”

“This is our WPA moment,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said, referring to the New Deal program that funded major public works projects across the country during the depths of the Great Depression. Experts in the field question how the money will be tracked and used, and how the administration will maintain such high levels of funding over the years it will take to put a sizable dent in a crime rate that has risen for two straight years.

The pending statute would make strides in tightening up rules on sexual harassment and nepotism as well as bolstering powers of the body that enforces the code. But it would double the cap on political contributions from those who do business with the county.

Police brass hopes the Friday and Saturday saturation patrols will discourage criminal mobs from taking over downtown parks and streets. The memo, coming on the last weekend before Christmas, does not explain why it is coming out on Wednesday for Friday to Sunday deployments.