Housing advocate LaShawn Brown said, “To receive this news about a facility that has been promised to the community, now more than 10 years after its closing, we are extremely shocked and not appreciating the fact that we don’t have a say. We don’t understand why our community has been chosen in light of the issues around the culture. We don’t have a Spanish-speaking community and are lacking the social services to match the needs we know they need.”

Chicago hits the market this week with more than $1 billion of debt in three long-planned deals that will raise money to replace lead-lined water lines and other water and sewer projects and forward refund debt under the city’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp.

Commercial office space available for lease is at record highs in the US, as cities — particularly large ones in the north — have struggled to bring workers back to the office full time. Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Mobile phone data collected from city centres tells a dismal story. According to the private equity firm Apollo, phone activity in San Francisco is at 31 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, New York is at 74 per cent and Chicago at 50 per cent of 2019 levels.

Tech pioneer Howard Tullman: “Companies of all sizes are leaving the city and the state and voting with their feet as they seek out safer, more corporate friendly, and better-managed communities for their people and their businesses. Someone needs to reach out in a hurry to try to stem this tide or we won’t have much of a central business district or an economy left in Chicago. But the confused and hostile messaging the mayor-to-be has promoted has done exactly the opposite of what is desperately needed.”

A city spokesperson did not answer questions about whether the police training center previously leasing the space is still in operation, why the former school is suitable for a shelter, or what other South Shore properties have been identified as potential shelter locations, if any. The Lightfoot administration’s short-notice rollout of a migrant shelter in neighboring Woodlawn sparked months of outrage before neighbors warmed up to the idea.

“What parents and children need and deserve from the Chicago Public Schools is accountability, pure and simple. Those promoting ‘soft accountability,’ which could easily morph into no accountability at all, would never use such words when applied, say, to the police. There, they rightly demand accountability, period. And so they should.”

Lance Williams, a professor at Northeastern Illinois University, said he wasn’t surprised to hear that the committee was no longer active. “To this day I think that the Lightfoot administration’s strategy to deal with gun violence was a public relations strategy. They didn’t have a strategy to deal with the structural problem of violence and gun violence.”

FOP President John Catanzara said bed bugs have been “a consistent issue,” and that there has been a lice problem at the Near West District and cases of chicken pox at the Shakespeare District. Boxes of meal rations that were sent to the Gresham District last

Descriptions identified the courses as only being for Black and Latinx students respectively on Sunday. But a spokesperson for the school says otherwise: “ETHS course offerings provide additional opportunities for students to take designated AP classes…As a result, access to AP classes for all students, including Black and Latinx students, has dramatically increased over the past decade. We are proud of our work.”

According to police, the burglaries happened in the early morning hours, with a brick or rock used to gain entry, then a crowbar used to enter registers and safes. Ald. Brian Hopkins says in addition to video surveillance, he’s advising some businesses to install protective films on their glass windows and doors.

For instance, a course listed as MA0512 Precalculus was listed as being restricted for 10th, 11th and 12th grade students “who identify as Black male.” MA0515 AP Calculus AB was also listed as restricted to 11th and 12th grade ETHS “students who identify as Black, all genders.” But the course descriptions were revised to now state the classes are “open to all” but is still “intended to support students who identify as” Black or Latinx. The course descriptions appear to have dropped all references to gender.