Chicago Alderman Nicholas Sposato said the city receives ‘no help’ from the state or federal government to plan for the inflow of migrants, but that the migrants need to be moved out of the police departments as soon as possible.

A Chicago beach was closed hours after it opened for the summer season when shots were fired during a large brawl on Friday, according to police. The fight broke out among a group of 80 to 100 teenagers at North Avenue Beach around 1:30 p.m., police said.

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Mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson was so unequivocal about putting a silencer on the contract, ShotSpotter’s stock value nosedived after Johnson was elected.

According to a city spokesperson, 10,019 migrants have arrived in Chicago over the past nine months, with 4,151 migrants currently residing in temporary city shelters. Said Ald. Mike Rodriguez, “I hope they stay and become a fabric of our community, as Mexican immigrants did decades ago, and eastern European and Polish immigrants did a generation before them.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson won’t say yet whether he intends to leave in place his predecessor’s executive order earmarking a budget surplus for future supplemental pension contributions. He also hasn’t committed to which of the tax proposals he advocated the campaign that brought him to the mayor’s office this month he will pursue first.

“There can be no progressive nature to policing and prosecution; for, law and order is the only civilizing force in society. No, Brandon, this was not kids making silly decisions. Criminality is rising, and these young men didn’t need ‘assault weapons’ to carry out their menace.”

According to the City, every credit rating upgrade represents $100 million in interest cost savings on each $1 billion in bonds issued. Chicago had $6.3 billion in long-term tax supported debt outstanding in FY2021, according to the City’s most recent audited financial report, plus another $16.3 billion in outstanding revenue bonds for water/sewer and O’Hare and Midway airports.

Electric vehicles are registered in all 77 community areas in Chicago, but more than 40 of those areas have no public EV chargers, city officials say. But city residents are prime candidates for EV adoption that the state is pushing, because the average number of miles they drive daily is relatively low.

Burnett, who was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1995, began putting money from political contributions into investment accounts in 1999, according to reports he filed with the elections board. Matt Dietrich, a spokesman for the state elections board, says that what Burnett’s reports show is that, in some instances, “You’re telling us you deposited the money back into the campaign fund, and we see no such thing.”

Arlington Heights spokesperson Avis Meade confirmed that the village had approved plans for the first phase of demolition at the old racetrack, marking another move toward a $5 billion NFL stadium and accompanying mixed-use residential, commercial and entertainment district. All told, the team expects the wrecking work to cost about $3.8 million, their applications show.

“Glaringly absent from any of Johnson’s picks are: Any private sector experience (with the exception of Jill Jaworski), anybody that has ever worked in business, anybody that has ever worked in management as in say acting on the side of management in a management/labor negotiation, and perhaps most importantly, not one person at the top of the administration comes from a policing background.”

“The goals of my property tax equity legislation are to help struggling taxpayers across the county, restore some measure of wealth to minority communities, aid struggling governments that serve Black and Latino residents and start to reverse the urban decay that plagues so many areas of the county.”

Most Holy Name Redeemer Church in Evergreen Park was scheduled to host its 46th parish carnival June 15th-18th. The pastor said in a letter to parishioners that they made the decision to cancel the event after consulting with Evergreen Park police.

Expect a convergence of specialty units; the nation’s counterterror hardware and personnel attempting to choke off throngs of violent domestic terror groups that experts say will see Chicago as a target. Government buildings, utilities, faith-based institutions, and all minority communities are considered major targets.

“The Windy City is a bloody mess…But no NAACP travel advisory for Chicago, even though its new mayor is even softer on crime and more hostile to law enforcement than (former mayor Lori) Lightfoot was.”

Ulta added its voice to the chorus of retailers lamenting a rise in shoplifting by organized gangs. CEO Dave Kimbell said during an earnings call this afternoon that the Bolingbrook-based beauty retailer continues to see inventory shrink, in part from theft.

A permanent Outdoor Dining Street Permit would allow restaurants and bars to once again set up tables in the curb or parking lane outside their business; A business’s alderperson will need to sign off on any outdoor dining street permits. Groups of three or more restaurants on the same block would also be able to apply for full street closures for their outdoor patios.

Paid leave costs the county an estimated $2.1 million a year in salary and payroll tax, a county spokesman said. The new policy is estimated to cost almost three times more — nearly $6 million a year. That includes more overtime needed to cover employees taking longer leaves.

Walgreens is eliminating 504 corporate jobs, representing about 10% of its corporate workforce. Late last year, Illinois and a number of other states reached a $10.7 billion settlement agreement with Walgreens and CVS, after allegations that the companies contributed to the opioid epidemic by failing to appropriately oversee dispensing of opioids at their stores.

Volunteer Benito Pinal said sometimes migrants are eating expired food or catching infections. He said he does his best to provide them with basic supplies, but it has been difficult to keep up with the influx of migrants and have little to no resources or guidance from the city.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has created a task force to look for solutions to Chicago’s underfunded pensions, asking the group to address one of the city’s deepest and most intractable financial problems.