The group, which marched to the intersection from a rally in Federal Plaza, has been calling for a ceasefire on both sides of the war. The group consists of Jewish leaders and their allies, and said they will continue their gatherings until politicians take notice.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, a hot shower, a chance to prepare a home-cooked meal and clothes to bring on the journey are offered at the recently repurposed rectory of Oak Park’s St. Catherine-St Lucy Catholic Church to migrants living three blocks away at the Chicago Police Department’s 15th District. With an estimated $9,000 to $10,000 water bill looming for next month, the urgency to obtain public funding, not to mention a larger hot water tank, is there.

“I don’t know when gas prices are going to go up again. But they will, we do know that they will. And then customers are going to be hit twice as hard because of this rate increase for Peoples Gas delivery rates, as well as the price of gas,” said Abe Scarr with Illinois PIRG, a non-profit watchdog organization.

Johnson and Chicago Public Schools officials announced in June that employees would get up to 12 weeks of paid paternity leave; since then, police have fought for the same leave, which will be granted in their new contract if approved by the city council.

The summer housing market in Chicago and Illinois saw month-to-month decreases in home sales in July and increases in August before declining in September, according to data from Illinois Realtors, a trade association for real estate agents. The same data shows median sales prices continued to decrease from July through September, with home prices still up year-over-year.

“Roughly two percent of the world’s Jewish community resides in the greater Chicago area…Chicago Jews are scared for their own safety as pro-Hamas protestors roam Chicago’s streets (including the busing in of radical Muslims from outside the city, according to sources) and as anti-Semitic hate crime increases. And they are sad at the loss of a metropolis they played a key role in building up over the last century.”

In Skokie, a gunshot was fired into the air, and a crowd was maced as a pro-Palestine rally faced off with an Israeli solidarity event. Skokie police said “several disturbances” broke out on the perimeter of the event, the newspaper reported. No one was injured by the gunshot, according to police, though another protester was struck in a separate hit-and-run and suffered non-serious injuries.

Denver and New York are also struggling to handle mass numbers of migrants, and Chicago is the only sanctuary city that has pointed to resettlement as the primary solution to put them on a path to self-sufficiency. But there are not enough

Historically students in magnet and selective enrollment schools received transportation because they helped the school district comply with a desegregation consent decree. These schools were designed as islands of integration in an otherwise segregated school system. But in 2009, the consent decree was lifted.

The centerpiece of Johnson’s plan for CPD would transform 398 of the department’s more than 11,700 sworn positions into jobs open to civilians who would not have law enforcement powers, without changing the overall size of the department. These new, non-sworn CPD members would be charged with performing the more “administrative and technical and reporting side of policing,” Johnson said.

In court for his third offense, prosecutors asked Judge Barbara Dawkins to hold Juvenal Coronel in jail for committing a new offense while he had cases pending, according to clerk of court records. Dawkins let him go with instructions to show up in court two days later. He didn’t show up. He did, however, get arrested again – twice in the same day.

The number of passengers passing through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at O’Hare during the first seven months of the year remained at about 86% of pre-pandemic volumes, Chicago Department of Aviation data shows. The lagging traffic is a troubling trend for O’Hare, a key piece of the city’s economy and

Among them, a 13-year-old boy was near a street at about 8:20 p.m. in the Bronzeville neighborhood when he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, according to Chicago police.