The mayor’s latest, most vociferous attempt to reclaim the police support that has abandoned her since her landslide victory in 2019 came at a graduation ceremony in the Navy Pier ballroom. It also was almost one year to the day after CPD officers gathered at the University of Chicago Medical Center to support their wounded colleague, Carlos Yanez Jr., and his slain partner, Ella French, literally turned their backs on the mayor as Lightfoot approached them.

“Chicago’s quality-adjusted real-estate prices might possibly be the lowest in the country today…One reason that demand, and thus prices, are lower in Chicago is that the city does not attract the same caliber of talent as the coastal superstar cities and thus generates lower-value economic activity.”

Typically, the funds generated by TIF must be used in the same area of the city that the taxes were generated. But the TIF proposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot would use the growth concentrated downtown and south of the Loop to fund the train line extension on the Far South Side, where property tax revenue has been stagnant or declining for many years.

Robert Boik, who has served in high-ranking civilian roles within the department since 2016, was dismissed after sending an email criticizing Brown’s decision to move 46 officers under Boik’s supervision to the Bureau of Patrol as part of a larger reorganization, according to sources.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx defended her office and assumed no personal responsibility for people leaving. “The reality is that we are in the midst of what has been designated as the great resignation. And we have not been spared.”

CPS will not require students and faculty to be vaccinated against the virus when they return to buildings this fall. What’s more, students will also not be required to wear masks on a regular basis, but will have to do so in specific cases, according to officials.

Downtown Alderman Brendan Reilly said, “Judging from the details we are just learning now, it’s pretty obvious why the Administration forbade NASCAR from sharing the terms of the deal with the alderpersons who represent impacted communities: the more we learn, the worse this deal gets…In my experience, Chicago taxpayers know a bad deal when they see one. And I’m sad to say: this is one of them”

Student Mitchell Robson, also a writer for The Chicago Thinker, the university’s conservative news outlet, said, “I am very excited that the booster shot mandate at UChicago has been lifted…but I recognize that there remains much to be desired and changed.” On Twitter, Robson questioned when the school will apologize “to the countless students they already forced to get it.”

“Mayor Lightfoot and her PR team may attempt to spin a good yarn about how new ‘Class A’ office space is nearly ‘sold out’ and continues to demand sky high prices. But with downtown Class B and C office occupancy at all time lows, which continue to sink quarter-over-quarter, small and large retailers abruptly shutting doors on the Mag Mile and beyond, and Starbucks closing select in-store Gold Coast seating areas (and likely stores, in the near future), it’s clear the Invisible Hand is voting on the one issue it cares most about: crime.”

A person who works a gas station said they were filming “Justified,” a show on FX. No cast or crew members were injured, police said. No one is in custody.

“This is a bigger deal than an occasional canceled bus, or a bigger deal than an occasional gap in service,” said Joseph Schwieterman, director of DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development. In a city with “persistent unemployment,” staffing should not be responsible for repeated service outages, he said.

“The average resident would rather see an officer deployed in the field than at a desk if we can still make it work with administration work,” Supt. David Brown said. He declined to say how many officers will get moved, but he did confirm police have also taken officers away from narcotics and gang units to beef up CTA patrols.