“Our regional and local mobility and climate goals cannot be met without CTA becoming a bigger part of riders’ daily lives again.”

According to Tamara Mahal, head of the city’s Community Safety Coordination Center, more than 1,700 people have applied for security camera rebates, 300 have sought outdoor lighting rebates, and 100 people have applied for reimbursements on GPS tracking devices. The city has budgeted more than $5 million for this program over the next two years.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown on Tuesday announced a 44% decrease in homicides and a 26% decrease in shootings across the city year-over-year. Homicides are also down in Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods on the west and south sides of the city while its northern, lakefront neighborhoods have seen an increase.

Burke was reelected in February 2019 despite an attempted extortion charge filed against him the month prior. A grand jury handed up his racketeering indictment later, in May 2019.

“In the last 18 months in the downtown police district, we’ve had more gun arrests than we’ve had in the last decade in its entirety. Let that sink in,” said downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd).

About 20 percent of voters turned out citywide compared to 25 percent of detainees at Cook County Jail. Recent legislation made the jail a polling place with same-day registration, boosting turnout there.

According to the 2022 Time Out index, more than 20,000 city-dwellers ranked Chicago as the No. 2 city in the world based on nightlife, food and drink, arts and culture, along with affordability, walkability, public transportation and more.

Despite the increase in calls to domestic violence hotlines from Chicago residents, the number of cases reported to police fell by 5% in 2021, to around 151,000 reported incidents. The decline likely doesn’t represent a downturn in abuse, given the surge in domestic-related shootings, one researcher said, but probably results from a sense of futility by victims. Victims interviewed by study authors reported feeling ignored by Chicago Police, and CPD made arrests in only about 5% of domestic violence calls, a decline of 15% from 2020 and more than a third from 2020.

“For the State’s Attorney not to approve attempted murder charges is an insult not only to Danny’s (Golden) integrity but what justice stands for in the city of Chicago and Cook County,” Ald. Ray Lopez said. “…(W)hat those shooters intended to do was very clear. They were upset. They came back with a weapon and started shooting into a crowd. The attempt was more than to scare people. It was to kill people which means they should have been charged with attempted murder.”

“June closings were down 12.6% from last year. On the one hand that’s the biggest year over year decline in 2 years but on the other hand last June was an all time record for closings.”

“All of these plans tend to be inspirational and visionary. There are part of them that don’t get done. But those that are related to lakeshore erosion are going to be particularly important. … And the city is gonna have to find ways to address these things,” Friends of the Parks Executive Director Juanita Irizarry said.

Since December, eight children have died. One was Amaria Osby, 8, who was killed by her mother just hours after DCFS was at their Uptown neighborhood home. The report lays out the department’s failure to be transparent after Osby’s death, and writes that a shortage of investigators continues to be a significant issue.