Chicago’s foul-mouthed Mayor took to the stage at this weekend’s Pride Parade, where she declared “fuck Clarence Thomas,” following Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. “He thinks that we are going to stand idly by while they take our rights, our right to marry, our right to have children, our right to live!” she continued.

“We gotta unhandcuff the police, allow them to do their jobs because they’re in fear of doing their jobs,” Caldwell said. “I understand that we can have criminal justice reform, we can have police reform, but there has to be a balance because at this point criminals are unafraid of the police, they’re unafraid of the prosecutors, they won’t capitulate to the laws, so what do we do next?”

Six mayoral challengers pounced on Mayor Lori Lightfoot Monday.

CPD Supt. David Brown said the parade itself went smoothly, but “the drunken, rowdy behavior that some engaged in after the parade, however, was very, very challenging to say the least…All you need is a few knuckleheads in the crowd” to taint an otherwise positive event, Brown said.

Chicago fired off hundreds of letters Monday to Fortune 500 CEOs in states facing abortion bans, pitching the city as a more welcoming location for their businesses. World Business Chicago, the city’s public-private economic development arm that launched the letter-writing campaign, is buying a full-page ad this week in The Wall Street Journal featuring a copy of the letter.

“We talk about how pro-business we are. We want our businesses to thrive. We want them to stay here and we want to attract businesses to Oak Lawn. This is just one small step in helping out our Oak Lawn business owners,” Trustee Ralph Soch said.

Mayor Lightfoot and World Business Chicago have a message for CEOs in states restricting abortion: You can always move here instead.

“The reality is that we need to fill the gaps quickly,” Chicago police Deputy Chief Migdalia Bulnes said, according to CBS. The department said they recently hired 50 new officers, but that number still leaves them about 1,300 short of what they need.

Prosecutors this week accused 22-year-old Kyrell Pittmon of a contract hit that was arranged through recorded jailhouse phone calls by one of the men his target was prepared to testify against. Pittmon was on electronic monitoring (EM) for a gun case when he allegedly killed.

Micheal Quentin, who previously worked as a ride-hailing driver, switched to food deliveries during the coronavirus pandemic. “I do instinctually try to avoid the shorter rides because I know starting my car engine over and over again, it will use up a little bit of chunk of gas more than just driving around.”

The changes have brought in an estimated $105.9 million since March 2021, topping even the city’s own projections that the program would yield $95.5 million. However, average speed of the fastest drivers — those who were ticketed for driving 11-or-more miles per hour over the limit – did not change despite this program’s goal to change behavior and curb dangerous speeding.

As Pride celebrations were wrapping up, two separate incidents left several people hurt and in the hospital. At least one person is in critical condition from gunfire, and another in serious condition after being stabbed, police say.

“With no sense of shame or self-awareness, Jon Ballis, chairman of Kirkland’s executive committee, said ‘We wish them the best of luck in the future and look forward to collaborating with them in matters not involving the Second Amendment.'”

“So, to recap, we are supposed to view guns as evil but feel sympathy for and even perhaps avoid chasing those who carry them and even use them against people in urban environments. This is why crime is on the rise.”

Among them, one person was killed and another wounded after gunmen opened fire on a CTA bus Sunday afternoon in Garfield Park.