Like most markets around the country, the overall sales volume in Chicago has decreased considerably since the market peaked last summer. The 2,168 homes that sold in the city last month was 25 percent less than 12 months prior, and suburban sales fell by 22 percent to 7,802.

“As Democrats, if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our cities, we will be the worse for it,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “I come to this conversation as a former federal prosecutor. I come to this as a former defense attorney, I am the sister of a returning resident. But I know that there are people in my city that are wreaking havoc every day and need to be off the

“There are really two points here. The first is all those loud folks pretending the violence is somehow a new and mysterious thing and a fresh test for a mayor-elect who hasn’t even been sworn in yet really ought to take a breath. The second is that law enforcement and local leaders have been given plenty of legal, investigatory and prevention tools to address these issues, but those leaders appear to be allowing those tools to just rust away in a drawer somewhere.”

“He’s focused on something that I’m focused on, which is lifting up people who’ve been left out and left behind. We have neighborhoods in Chicago that have been disinvested from. He ran a campaign that focused on that, and he won because in my opinion he addressed that,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.

“Well, listen, I used to be a teenager in Chicago. I grew up in this town and I didn’t always do the right thing. But listen, I think it’s about having honest conversations — cogent conversations with them about why these things don’t make sense. And asking them once again what they need,” state Rep. Kam Buckner said.

An account posing as the Chicago Department of Transportation said it was “excited to announce that beginning 5/1/23, North DuSable Lake Shore Drive will be closed to private vehicles between Grand and Hollywood.” That message was then retweeted by a false account for Mayor Lori Lightfoot, which wrote that the move was part of the “single largest decarbonization effort in the history of Chicago.”

The main driver of the increase is far higher interest rates, which caused the interest on Treasury bonds to rise in 2022. The old formula rate tied ComEd’s return on equity — the profit it earns on its investments in the local power grid — to the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds. For most of those years that interest rate was low. That changed when the Federal Reserve hiked rates rapidly to combat inflation.

Chase sent an email to its Chicago employees that reads in part: “Global Security is monitoring developing information related to a potential gathering of juveniles in downtown Chicago on the evenings of Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22. We wanted to alert all Chicago employees in an abundance of caution as these gathering could follow recent trends where incidents of disruption and disorder occur…”

The Illinois housing market is continuing to cool off from the pandemic housing boom, with the number of home sales still down significantly while prices are holding steady compared with the first quarter of last year, housing experts say. Yet, for both the Chicago metro area and Illinois as a whole, prices and sales began increasing month-over-month in February and continued the trend in March

Good Samaritan Lenora Dennis, an Englewood resident, likened her experience to watching a train wreck. “It felt like they felt invincible, like we can do this unchecked,” she said of the group that attacked the couple. “And that can’t be the thing that happens in Chicago. That can’t happen anywhere. That’s anarchy.”

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a rule that would require towns that receive federal money to create “equity plans” for fair housing and take action to end racially unbalanced neighborhoods. In other words, the Biden bureaucracy wants to socially engineer suburban neighborhoods to its racial and ethnic liking. Community development block grants, known as CDBGs, are widely distributed across the country, including

The plan also would pool revenue generated on the site from state sales tax, hotel tax and liquor taxes and a new 3% surcharge on sports betting revenue into a fund to help Arlington Heights and surrounding communities pay for infrastructure improvements.

“All we’ve been hoping for is a coordinated effort – and here is proof that it’s not happening,” said volunteer Mary Schaaf, “and these families are coming in droves.” Since August, her organization has clothed and fed 2,000 migrants – based on donations alone – and no help from city officials. She said volunteer resources are running out.