“Criminals roam freely on the streets of Chicago, knowing that the chances of getting caught are minimal. ‘Crime pays,’ is often the rallying cry of the lawless. The brazenness of their acts is unparalleled, with individuals openly carrying firearms and engaging in violent crimes without fear of retribution. The lack of consequences for criminal behavior sends a dangerous message to the community: that lawlessness will prevail and that the safety and well-being of law-abiding citizens are of little concern.”

The filing comes as the latest move in a court fight to determine the fate of Urban Prep. Administrators at Urban Prep filed suit in April, accusing CPS of violating state law by seeking to effectively seize control of the charter schools. In that complaint, Urban Prep’s leaders assert Illinois state law does not allow the Chicago Board of Education to simply evict the leadership of the charter schools and then essentially make it just another CPS school.

Chicago police already have a “significant and robust” leave policy — the ability to take 365 days off every two years, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s senior adviser Jason Lee said. But FOP President John Catanzara lambasted Johnson for establishing one standard of benefits for the mayor’s former union and another, lesser standard for the union representing rank-and-file Chicago Police Department officers:

Hundreds of men, women and children are still sleeping on the floors of police stations across the city and at O’Hare International Airport. “I think something more permanent has to be had,” interim Police Superintendent Fred Waller said. “Until that time, the stations are kind of the transition post.”

A federal judge will allow a group of LGBTQ soccer fans to continue pressing their lawsuit against the Chicago Park District for allegedly not doing enough to silence fans of the Mexican national team who leveled homophobic taunts during a 2019 Soldier Field match.

“Today, however, a prevalent ideology — progressivism — dictates whether an individual is charged and placed on trial. A doctrine which demands why a crime was committed rather than who committed a crime, its practitioners have spent the last decade dialing back criminal prosecutions and framed the non-prosecution of crime as police tending to direct attention only to minorities. Though an utter falsehood, the results of non-prosecution have wrought disaster for Chicago, and nowhere have the city’s progressive leaders failed more significantly than in the prosecution of gang crime.”

The EPA has said replacing lead pipes during water main work is not only safer, it is also about 20% cheaper. But Chicago Commissioner of Water Management Andrea Cheng said that’s not true in Chicago. Cheng said old water mains can rupture, and slowing their replacement by dealing with all the lead pipes would have been irresponsible and could expose people to bacteria. She said Chicagoans face a bigger threat of poisoning from lead paint and the city is trying to fight that. “Do you know how many people want their yard dug up?” Cheng said. “Not many.”

Across the street from the 22nd precinct police station, teachers who live nearby hold regular classes for the refugee children in a community garden; With the youngest learners, one neighbor danced and sang and read books, while retired teacher Laura Amaro read lesson books in Spanish with an older child at a picnic table. Many of the recent arrivals who’ll join

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss added that his city showed how reparations could be a “tangible” reality. “Our job here is just to move forward and to continue being that example, to continue illustrating that a small municipality can make real tangible progress,” he said in the report.

“’We discussed specifics of the mayor’s tax policy and tax incentives for corporations, but did not reach consensus,’ said the segment written by the Economic Vitality & Equity group, one of the 11 transition team committees that contributed recommendations to the report. ‘Ultimately, we reached agreement that the mayor should work to grow the tax base and reduce reliance on property taxes,’ the report states. Yes, but every Chicago mayor since Anton Cermak has said the same. For the report to go mum on this point does a disservice to Chicagoans.”

Since the mid-20th century, the ground between the city surface and the bedrock has warmed by 5.6 degrees Fahrenheit on average. All that heat, which comes mostly from basements and other underground structures, has caused the layers of sand, clay and rock beneath some buildings to subside or swell by several millimeters over the