Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli “reached out to the Chicago Bears organization to introduce as a thriving community with multiple opportunities for business investment.”

“He said the one thing you’re not allowed to say when talking about race: people of the same race are more likely to murder each other than they are to be murdered by people of other races.”

Falcons have been nesting every spring at the building at 100 S. Wacker since at least 2016, according to Mary Hennen, who leads the Peregrine program at the Field Museum. Peregrines used to nest on higher floors there. But the birds this year have nested low enough that they’ve become aggressive to humans walking below.

Officers responded to the building that was formerly the Wasdworth Elementary School located at around 6 a.m. Friday. Police said the 27-year-old man was found unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene.

The statement reads, in part, “The stadium-based project remains broadly popular in Arlington Heights, Chicagoland and the state. However, the property’s original assessment at five times the 2021 tax value, and the recent settlement with Churchill Downs for 2022 being three times higher, fails to reflect the property is not operational and not commercially viable in its current state.”

Like stakeholders in Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Brandon Johnson has plenty of data to inform his promise to end Chicago’s SoundThinking contract. Among the Inspector General’s findings: Only 9.1% of more than 50,000 ShotSpotter alerts turned up evidence of a gun-related criminal offense having occurred. Similarly, in Dayton, an arrest happened in less than 1% of the dispatches prompted by a ShotSpotter alert.

The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club is pledging to raise tens of millions of dollars and hire thousands of at-risk individuals in a bid to finally curb the epidemic of street crime that has afflicted the city for decades But the group’s five-point program is notably silent on the volatile question of whether Chicago has enough police, a huge subject of recent debate. And it virtually ignores other key players in the city’s crime picture, notably the Cook County State’s Attorney and Cook County Circuit Court, frequently blamed for letting too many criminals go free.

The deal has been mired in controversy from its inception, with the lawsuit being the latest effort to stop the Chicago Fire from building a new training facility on 23 acres of CHA land. The City Council initially blocked the deal and then reversed course in September 2022, but housing advocates have continued to express their disapproval of CHA land being used for non-housing purposes.

There are eight city-run shelters, and they are all near or at capacity, a spokesman said. He said it’s unclear how long buses of people are expected to keep arriving, but the city is seeing about 85 people arrive every day. Since August, 10,502 men, women and children have come to Chicago. About 4,500 people are staying in the city’s temporary shelters, and more than 600 are waiting in police stations for shelter space to become available.

An increasing number of private groups in Chicago neighborhoods have begun hiring private security to help deter crime such as carjackings, burglaries, and muggings. For example, in 2021, the co-owner of the Bristol, John Ross, was a victim of a carjacking and hospitalized. A year later, Bucktown Neighbors Association hired P4 Security Solutions in December.

Mirroring updates the Illinois legislature made to the Illinois Human Rights Act in 2021, the amendments require Chicago employers to perform an individualized assessment before basing an adverse employment action on an individual’s criminal history, and impose pre-adverse action and final adverse action notice requirements when such decisions are made.

Though the program has received much fanfare, the rollout has been slow, riddled with unforced errors, and has resulted in a number of unintended consequences that at times have left elderly recipients on their own against online predators. Some were also initially kept in the dark that if they took a lump sum payout, it would be taxable and could possibly boot them from other government assistance programs, such as SNAP and healthcare.

Officials from Choose Chicago announced today that visitation to the city during 2022 was up 60% from 2021 as public health restrictions faded and a surge of leisure travelers poured in during peak tourism months. The total, reported by the city’s official destination marketing group using data from travel research firm DK Shifflet, was roughly 80% of the 2019 figure, when the city boasted a record 60.8 million visitors.

Around 8:21 p.m., a group of people started shooting at another group in the 4200 block of South Wells Street. Officers arrived and saw several people shot on the ground and a male armed with a handgun. The gunman shot in the direction of police and an officer returned fire. The gunman was taken into custody a short time later, police said.