The program would serve only suburban residents of Cook County. Chicago is instituting its own guaranteed income pilot program that will disburse $500 monthly payments to 5,000 participants who will be chosen through a lottery.

An administrator at the Latin School of Chicago explained that the high school freshmen would be taught a curriculum called “Social Justice in Physics,” which addressed “power dynamics, systemic racism, white privilege, and the shortage of people of color and women in the field of science, especially physics.”

In Madigan’s case, the legal distinction is important, said Juliet Sorensen, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago. “When someone is that powerful, there is a chilling effect on people on doing what they would otherwise do without that power or influence or clout, you know, in their face.”

“I find your plan to lift the CPS mask mandate in advance of the judge’s ruling extremely troubling, especially considering DeVore’s intrusion and motives, but more important, our collective struggle in January to reach an agreement,” CTU President Jesse Sharkey wrote Friday in a letter to Lightfoot. “We must put all of our support behind the residents of our city, because while we are no longer at odds with one another, we remain under attack by right-wing forces that want to disrupt the safety we have worked so hard to achieve.”

Of those 134 calls since Sept. 13, 48% were resolved through a CARE team response on-scene that didn’t require additional transportation. In those cases, CARE team members de-escalated the situation and helped get those in crisis connected to immediate mental health care or other assistance. Additionally, 21% of cases were canceled on-scene.

“We’re prosecuting with integrity and we’re also doing our part to build trust in the criminal justice system,” Foxx said, arguing that behind the headlines and disturbing smash-and-grab incidents, ankle monitors are not the problem. “We cannot operate as we have in the past and be rooted by emotion and not by the data and evidence that tells us what works.”

Town President Larry Dominick hopes to hire at least 20 more qualified Chicago Police officers to join Cicero’s Police Department.

Interim Police Chief Richard Eddington says the reduction in staffing has caused an increase in the time it takes for officers to respond to calls for service, and the number of calls for service been increasing over the past several years.

“The merit system, originally meant to promote the most diligent officers, has become a system that serves the interests of the politically connected at CPD. In order to achieve a career advance in CPD today, it isn’t what you know or how you have tested, but who you know.”

The Office, considered a quasi-judicial entity within the judicial branch, serves in an administrative role, providing record management and administrative support in courtrooms and courthouses across Cook County. The Clerk also collects all fines and fees ordered by the Court and distributes fine and fee payments to other government agencies.

About 3:30 a.m., the officers had stopped to get a hot dog in the 3800 block of West Harrison Street. A man who was ahead of the officer in line finished his order and reached into his pocket to pay, but a gun fell out. The man picked up the gun and started shooting.

Based on their interviews with residents and dozens of epidemiologists, health care providers and community organizers, researchers posited four reasons for the “disconnect between policies and residents’ experiences and needs”: residents’ lack of a safety net, officials’ focus on treating the pandemic as a health crisis, an emphasis on protecting the economy at the expense of the vulnerable, and barriers to accessing social assistance.

“A lot of my members are afraid to come to work. You know they don’t know what’s going to happen on a daily basis,” Eric Dixon, president of ATU Local president, the union that represents rail operators.

The national nonprofit Preservation of Affordable Housing is credited with attracting more than $400 million in investment to Woodlawn since 2011, according to a report by Case Western Reserve University and the University of Illinois Chicago. “Woodlawn’s trajectory is relevant for many neighborhoods across Chicago and throughout the United States where movements to achieve economic, housing, and social justice seek to rectify the hardships caused by anti-Black racism, disinvestment and exclusion by government and private entities over past decades,” one author said.

“He’s been a bully around here for a long time,” said one lifelong West Lawn resident who asked not to be named. Asked what it was like to live near the Madigans, another neighbor responded with a laugh, noting: “You could always count on the streets to be plowed.”

The Office of the Inspector General has been without City Council-confirmed leadership for nearly five months. Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed that the search committee is being led by Margaret “Peggy” Daley, a former member of the Cook County Board of Ethics.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot campaigned on a promise to eliminate aldermanic prerogative, which was at the heart of the racketeering indictments of Ed Burke and Mike Madigan and countless other City Council scandals over the years. She could use the Madigan indictment to finally deliver on her campaign promise, but even the mayor’s staunchest allies are warning Lightfoot: Don’t even try.

There have already been 55 violent attacks on the ‘L’ system this year. This week, there were four separate attacks reported along CTA train lines. Last year in the same time period, there were 60, but consider this – five years ago, there were only 36 in the same time period.

“It’s like the pandemic is still going on,” Zach Strauss, a second-generation bar owner, said of his reaction to Commissioner Rob Manfred’s announcement. “In this neighborhood, in this business, we live and die by the Cubs season.”