A grand jury indicted 20-year-old Vahsean Davenport on two counts of carjacking, possessing a stolen motor vehicle, and unlawful restraint, according to court records; he has a lengthy criminal history, including multiple pending felony cases. Illinois State Police said he was released from their custody with instructions to appear in court this week.

Residents bound to the city “have had enough” of not being acknowledged, Lopez said. “They are often talked about for the progressive agenda, for the extreme liberal agenda that says they care. But their policies, particularly when it comes to police reform and criminal justice reform, in my opinion, are very racist because oftentimes the victims of the most heinous crimes by the repeat offenders are those same Black and Brown residents that the White liberals claim to care about but truly don’t.”

The debate about overhauling the real estate transfer tax comes at a time when revenues from it are already falling. The tax will end this year 37% lower than initially anticipated, according to the Johnson administration’s own projections. What’s more, revenues from the tax since 2003 have been fickle and followed fluctuations in the real estate market, spiking at $242 million in 2006 and tumbling to $62 million at the height of the Great Recession in 2009.

“I would say that the temperature of fear of crime and the brazenness of crime is higher than I’ve ever seen,” said Steve Jensen, a 40-year Bucktown resident and CAPS volunteer. “There’s no fear of consequences. So this will continue until the consequences become such that these people find other things to do.”

As part of its five-year strategic plan, CPS announced the creation of an advisory team to helm the creation of a Black Student Success plan. Board member Elizabeth Todd-Breland said, “These persistent opportunity gaps for Black students in particular are a sign of our collective failures as adults, not some type of inferiority among Black children. And this … then requires a bold new vision for the future of Chicago public schools. And I understand why people distrust us to do that work.”

“For them to be sympathetic to their needs, saying it’s a humanitarian issue crisis when Black people have had a humanitarian crisis for housing, employment and everything else,” community organizer Jessica Jackson said. “We are taxpayers. We are property owners. Our money should be going to our communities, not supporting people who haven’t put a dime into our communities.”

A yearslong fight over fears that the planned Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park would push longtime South Side residents out of their homes reignited last week as two City Council members introduced a proposal to expand protections in place in Woodlawn to include South Shore.

“The flood of new arrivals is the first major crisis that Brandon Johnson, the city’s leftist mayor who took office in May, has to deal with. It is already showing what happens when progressive ideals crash into fiscal realities.”

“Gates was revealed as a world class phony and hypocrite for trying to kill opportunity scholarships for low income Chicagoans including minorities to attend private schools, only to then pull her own child out of a Chicago public school and enroll him in a private Catholic school. Why? Because he loves soccer, she said.”

Officers at the scene said about eight people known to hang out near the Harold Washington Library and a nearby Red Line station are responsible for the attack, but no arrests have been made.

Chris Myers, director of policy committee, Chicago Republican Party: “We decry the lack of transparency in contracting and expenditure seen thus far and fully endorse a City Council and inspector general oversight role…Although we expect the costs of defraying the shock to be reimbursed by the federal government through the aforementioned legislation, Chicagoans are the fiduciaries of the funds here…”

“I want to say that every other level of government, every other town, every other place that says that they too are a sanctuary, it’s time for you to step up to the same level as the city of Chicago. It’s time for JB Pritzker to live up to his promises and his words, and to stop lying,” Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa said.