In Chicago, the problem is most acute “in the bottom third of prices,” said Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi. He has suggested that the Uniform Appraisal Database maintained by the federally chartered mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might help plug the gap, and he recruited 15 other tax officials from major urban areas — including Seattle, Miami, Philadelphia and Dallas — to join him in asking for access to that information.

They point to actions including having “hosted two community meetings, an alumni focus group and two POC town hall meetings to revise two district equity policies.” But in a year, one Chicago school with a name linked to slavery has shed its slaveholder namesake.

The major holiday basketball tournaments all start up on Dec. 27 and 28th. Any player that isn’t fully vaccinated would have had to sit out the holiday tournaments and could have missed all of January while meeting the requirements.

Orland Park mayor Keith Pekau told Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in a letter he would not enforce the county’s new proof of COVID-19 vaccination mandate come next month.

Special Prosecutor Dan Webb said he sent a copy of his report to Illinois’ Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, which has the power to suspend Foxx’s law license.

State Rep. Mary Flowers fears for the safety of those who must turn people away from their businesses. “You’re putting yourself in danger. You’re putting the venue in danger,” Flowers said.

“You have to admit it’s kind of scary and it’s just kind of bothering because it’s just like how was he able to do that for 21 times in the same neighborhood and just keep going on for so long,” said Hawah Abdulrasaq Coker.

“Arrests are down likely for a variety of reasons, some related to the pandemic and public health protocols, as well as the decrease in community trust in police as well as a general pulling back of proactive policing,” said Roseanna Ander, executive director of the UChicago Crime Lab.

“Lightfoot unwittingly exposed the utter lunacy of such policies, first by explaining it wasn’t required if you were just dropping in to a coffee shop briefly but that it was required if you planned on staying for a while…Secondly, there are so many exceptions to her mandate that it would be comical if the issue wasn’t so serious.”

“We’ll reevaluate the order on a weekly basis,” said Dr. Rachel Rubin. “As we see such a huge incredible rise and peak of cases we need to have mitigations in place, and also our hospitals are being stretched very thin right now. We need to see improvements – significant (improvements) – in lower cases each day … and (ensure) that our hospitals and health care facilities are not stretched to the limit as they are right now.”

Said Cook County Board President Preckwinkle, “But unfortunately, with the dual threat presented by the Delta and Omicron variants, and with cases, hospitalizations and deaths rising to new heights across Cook County, we must once again reassess and re-align our strategies with what the science is telling us.”

The district has received Board of Education approval to spend more on computer devices this time around than it did when all students were learning virtually last school year. The district told school leaders in a meeting early this month to prepare for a “doomsday” scenario in which thousands of children would have to quarantine in January, reverting hundreds of classrooms to virtual learning.

“We want to re-instill a sense of safety for our community, for our elders, so we’ve been donating and installing cameras, personal home surveillance, for our neighbors,” said Chris Javier, a deacon at the Chinese Christian Union Church.