A cohort of violence prevention leaders from 21 cities are now participating in a six-month course that includes hands-on training and focuses on program management, staff retention and data literacy. Charlie Beck, the longtime Los Angeles police chief who briefly led the Chicago Police Department, insisted that law enforcement officials need to embrace community organizations to address the entrenched violence that has disproportionately ravaged communities of color. “… I know that it is the answer to the problem that America faces,” Beck told a crowd that included Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

Ald. Jason Ervin, chairman of the Budget Committee and husband of City Treasurer Mellissa Conyear-Ervin, poked at Chasse Rehwinkel’s resume. It’s loaded with policymaking jobs but, Ervin noted, there is no “financial certification” or accounting degree. “I am personally concerned about an individual that doesn’t have a straight-up finance … background being comptroller because that person is the city’s chief fiscal accounting officer. It’s like the corporation counsel not being a lawyer or the superintendent not being a police officer.”

There are several vacant lots on the South Side, but 17th Ward Ald. David Moore said they should be developed for residents, not new arrivals. “I’m a believer in help your people first, help yourselves first, help your community first. Then, reach out and help others,” Moore said.

This year’s list of Chicago’s 25 Largest Law Firms saw local attorney headcounts dip by an average 0.2% from June 2022 to June 2023. One figure that increased across all firms in the past year was associate base salary. Most firms in Crain’s top 10 have upped their associate base salary to $215,000 — a 13% rise since 2021.

Greg Hinz on his semi-retirement: “Much as a few internet trolls would prefer, I won’t be disappearing. You can still call me a raging progressive, or a MAGA-loving Republican. I’ll still do a monthly column here, as well as an occasional special project.”

Cases that involved at least one officer with repeated claims of misconduct accounted for 47% of the cost borne by taxpayers to resolve police misconduct cases between 2019 and 2021, according to the analysis.

Currently, Beale’s ward has relatively few migrants, and he said he hopes to keep it that way.

“I’m not sure the report’s grounded in reality,” said Mark Denzler, of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, who was part of a committee advising on the proposals.“How do you really make the system more efficient? How do you really make it work for what the needs are, as opposed to, ‘we’re going to build a

While it might be premature to declare an end to the regional economic emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the return of pre-pandemic unemployment levels for three consecutive months is, perhaps, a sign that the worst is behind us.

The military-grade tents would be climate-controlled with bathrooms and showers, intake spaces and facility areas, Ald. Maria Hadden said. The new tent sites are also meant to help reduce the volume of asylum seekers living in police stations, but migrants at the 12th District station are skeptical it’ll be an improvement since they’re already living outside. “If they’re thinking of making tents like a barracks, we’ve seen that before when we first arrived in Texas. It didn’t work,” Alex Rossi said.

This comes after several cars were broken into at the plant early Friday morning.

Ms. Gates’s son deserves a quality education, but so do his neighbors. With any luck this controversy will improve the odds of renewing the Invest in Kids program. But the real moral and political scandal remains the same: that thousands of Chicago’s children are locked into failing public schools as part of a political job-protection program for the teachers union.

“So far, this is the weird system we have. (Ald. Ray) Lopez has the right to introduce his ordinance, and the members of the council will have to decide how best to represent their constituents in a situation that appears rapidly to be lurching out of control in the ‘welcoming cities.'”

Last weekend, at least 42 people were shot, seven fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said.