“Without demanding justice and criminal trials, without loudly demanding that (Cook County State’s Attorney Kim) Foxx, (Cook County Board President Toni) Preckwinkle, (Chief Judge Tim) Evans and their token white guy and resident weakling Democrat Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart do their jobs and maintain law and order nothing will change. Sloppy sentimental hugs won’t change things. And without change, the city will die if it’s not dead already.”

Chicago police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert and found four victims lying on the ground and a 16-year-old boy armed with a handgun nearby. The boy fired his weapon toward officers, and the cops fired back, then took him into custody, according to a police media statement.

Cook County’s minimum wage is based on the greatest rate among the Federal minimum wage, Illinois State minimum wage, or on the County’s calculation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This year, the April CPI exceeded the inflationary cap, so the 2.5% cap rate was used.

“We serve, really, the population of the city of Chicago — 60% of our students are women, 60% are students of color,” trustee Jose ico said. “We have the largest and longest federally recognized Hispanic-serving institution where 40% of our students are Latino…And so the 7% increase, which comes out to about $40 million of appropriations from the state, allows us to be able to continue our work without an additional tuition increase this year.”

“We voted for something that we had to vote for because we are in the middle of a humanitarian crisis,” Ald. Jessie Fuentes said. “But we also have a moral obligation to match funding for our West and South Side communities, as well as our unhoused siblings.”

Patrick Hanlon has worked as a top aide to the clerk of the Cook County courts and in the county assessor’s office; He was was an elected trustee in south suburban Worth Township. Hanlon is accused of failing to file returns for income he earned in 2017, 2018 and 2019, but the court records do not specify how he earned the income that he allegedly did not report and pay taxes on.

“It’s just a mess here,” Chicago resident Andre Smith said. “We have in Chicago $160 million that was spent for the migrants with no records, no plan. And now we’re fixing to spend $51 million that was passed at city council with no record, no plan for 500 migrants for 30 days…Just imagine you’re at work and your boss give a blank check of $51 million to 500 people for 30 days. That business would be out of business.”

Police say shots were fired into a group of people gathered to honor someone who died in a car crash four years ago.

The city of Chicago proposed last summer enclosing Soldier Field and increasing its capacity from a league-low 61,500, but the Bears repeatedly insisted that the only possibilities they were considering were for the Arlington Heights site. Now the Bears are citing a property assessment they said is too high, so the area is “no longer our singular focus.”

In Chicago, more arrivals prompted by the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era law that curbed immigration, started overwhelming shelters in April. As city officials looked for more spaces to house the migrants, they directed the overflow to the lobbies of police stations across the city.

“What they are doing is structural violence,” said one organizer.

In 2018, Dr. Joyce Carmine was dubbed the richest superintendent in Illinois making $419,000. The School Voted voted last week to bring her back to work; As a retiree, Carmine can only work 100 days a year, receiving $1,200 a day which is $120,000.

Jacoby Gunn, a street cleaner and neighborhood peacekeeper with Readi Chicago, peeked into the store Thursday. “I don’t understand why they had to move everything to the back at just this store. … There’s crime everywhere,” Gunn