The city’s population is 33% white, 29% Black and 29% Latino, according to the U.S. Census. The school district’s student population is 47% Latino, 35% Black, 11.1% white and 4.5% Asian. The 20-district map released late Tuesday includes five districts where the majority of voting-age adults are white, seven that are majority Black and six that are majority Latino. The two other districts have no majority, but they have a plurality of white voters.

According to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, a total of 649 detention hearings were requested in the first month with people being detained in 60% of those cases. Cases involving murder, vehicular hijacking and attempted murder had the highest rates of detention requests granted — at 93%, 94% and 89% respectively. “Overall, I think it

A parade of aldermen from across the city testified they would follow the lead of local Ald. Ronnie Mosley. Mosley previously issued a letter saying he was “highly disappointed” that the Jewel base camp plans were made with a lack of notice and amid unfulfilled demands for other investments in his Far South Side community, including another homeless shelter and renovations at his ward’s Chicago Public Schools high school.

Ald. Andre Vasquez, who dressed up as a Little Free Library on Halloween, said that the proposed legislation is “a solution in search of a problem.”

Illinois Retail Merchants Association CEO Rob Karr said, “I think in part what’s fueling it is that there is a practice and a message that it’s not taken seriously here in Chicago, that retail theft is not a serious crime and it is a victimless crime, both of which are complete falsehoods.”

The Mayor’s Office is considering a location for migrants inside the Marina City Complex: the former Museum of Broadcast Communications, Ald. Brendan Reilly said in an email in which he also renewed his “strenuous objections” to any migrant housing at Marina City. Among other things, he said the former museum building was “not built to [provide] residential housing.”

A record 47 charter schools up for renewal in the 2023-24 school year; in all, about 27,600 students are enrolled at these campuses. The high-stakes renewal process comes at a pivotal time, as Chicago’s political landscape is shifting under a new mayor and looming school board elections. Charter communities wonder what it could all mean for their schools.

Several city departments made changes after reviewing data through a racial equity lens. Among them, the Department of Finance instituted several loan forgiveness programs to help low-income residents catch up with their utility bills, and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events removed a provision in an ordinance that restricted individuals participating in the Maxwell Street Market as a vendor if they were previously convicted or under parole.

Noting that the budget includes “half of the projected amount necessary to care for asylum seekers” the report states: “With such uncertainty regarding the number of migrants the City can expect over the next year, it will be essential to develop a contingency plan in the event that State and federal funds do not materialize.” The Civic Federation also sounded the alarm about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to rely on the same one-time revenues Chicago mayors have used for decades to postpone the day of reckoning and avoid raising taxes.

“Our cities need additional resources that far exceed the amount proposed in order to properly care for the asylum seekers entering our communities,” reads the letter from the mayors of Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and New York. “Relying on municipal budgets is not sustainable and has forced us to cut essential city services.”

The city’s three-year pilot program, which last year to give free representation to low-income tenants, was funded with $8 million in federal Covid-19 relief money. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is moving to make it permanent and expand it. But the Law Center for Better Housing, which runs the program on behalf of the city, said it doesn’t have data that shows whether tenants who received assistance from attorneys fared better than those who haven’t.

Yellow Banana received $13.5 million in tax-increment financing and another $13 million in New Market Tax Credits and private funding last year to rehabilitate Save A Lots that had closed or fallen into disrepair. Among them, an Auburn Gresham store set to open in July has been delayed for months; a West Pullman store has yet to be remodeled, despite claims to the local alderman construction would begin in August; and a West Garfield Park location shut down 18 months ago remains closed.

“While there are many factors that contribute to the rise and fall in violent crime, police officer strength is the most critical.”

While the body count was still being tallied, BLM groups in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington issued statements supporting Hamas’s tactics. BLM Chicago tweeted an image of a Hamas paraglider with a Palestinian flag attached to his parachute and the caption “I stand with Palestine.” What’s shocking isn’t the rhetoric of BLM leaders in the aftermath of Oct. 7 but that so many people who ought

The city still has no clear timeline for when new brick-and-mortar shelters will open for the more than 3,000 migrants

In addition to the rolling shutters, some businesses are installing concrete barricades in front of the buildings. Some of them are designed to look like planters. At Boneyard Chicago, which was struck Thursday, the shutters worked, but the owner wishes he still had the barricades he says his alderman made him take down.