“We can’t argue in one sentence, ‘Let’s provide opportunities for youth to get them to stop coming downtown’ and then take those opportunities away from the youth,” Ald. Chris Taliaferro said. “We can’t take these resources, especially in our underserved communities. This goes against everything that we’re trying to do to reduce violence.”

Overall, attendance in all categories of guests picked up in 2022, but it was still down 60 percent from pre-pandemic levels. Overall in-person attendance drops at performing arts venues for the four-year period was far more severe — 59 percent — than at museums — 14 percent, the report found. Museums were able to open their doors earlier, have “flexible entry times” and better control the flow of visitors, according to the study.

“The infrastructure still needs a lot of support to move to a higher saturation rate of electrical vehicles,” said Gene Kent, of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers trade school in Chicago.

“We need additional support for asylum seekers who have surpassed their six months of support through the Asylum Seeker Emergency Assistance Program,” said Jennifer Torres, a Chicago mutual aid worker. “Many families have expended their six months of support, and landlords are threatening eviction.” Torres said many non-citizens could soon end up back in police stations without additional support from the city.

At least 9,600 children receiving scholarships through Illinois’ Invest in Kids tax credit scholarship program come from families whose incomes average $45,046 a year. Compare that to the salary of Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates: over $289,000 a year.

“(Cook County Associate Judge Maryam) Ahmad went on to explain why she doesn’t allow people to take notes in her courtroom: because they might write down information about the defendants. That’s nonsense, of course. Anyone who wants information about defendants can print out page after page of their personal data from the clerk’s computer system upstairs.”

Demonstrators held signs demanding equality in hiring; they expressed frustration about being excluded from meetings on the project, and called for transparency from the local alderman and the e-commerce giant. But they weren’t trying to keep Amazon from moving into the neighborhood. They wanted the warehouse to open sooner. After months of delays, Amazon will begin operating the delivery facility in early October and plans to hire for 350 full- and part-time jobs.

The 86-page report from University of Illinois at Chicago researchers shows that under Lightfoot, approximately half of the council supported her 90% or more of the time. This was “lower than that under Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel,” who enjoyed “strong majorities that supported their legislations more than 90% of the time, and had a core group of alderpersons who voted with them 100% of the time.”

Venezuelan migrant teenagers who were attacked with a bat after school in Rogers Park last week. “The fight broke out between a group of Afghan students and Venezuelan students over cultural differences,” Hadden said, without explaining what those differences were. “A lack of familiarity with or exposure to cultures different from ours can be the source of misunderstandings and conflict.”

“Is office dead? No. Is Chicago dead? No. Am I a contrarian? Yes,” CEO Jordan Menashe said. “It’s vibrant. It’s architecturally beautiful. You could feel the vibe.” It was the first sale of a downtown building in more than a year.

Anna DiStefano, a member of a mutual aid group that temporarily sheltered migrants in Pilsen over the summer, said at the meeting it is disappointing to have the city fund a proposal for “refugee camps” instead of giving money to support endeavors from local groups. “It is absolutely immoral to take the money that is for this crisis and send it to GardaWorld, a company with a record of international human rights abuses.”

While armed robberies are nothing new in Chicago, a disturbing new pattern has emerged in recent months where crews of robbers — many of them juveniles — toting high-powered weapons go on crime sprees, robbing or carjacking multiple victims in a matter of minutes, often using stolen cars and dressed head to toe in black. The sheer volume of robberies has left aldermen frustrated and many residents

Last weekend, at least 30 people were shot, three fatally, across the city, police said.