A review of Chicago Police Department data on the district level shows that killings have actually increased or remained flat in many of the neighborhoods that have historically struggled the most with violence. That may be because the downturn in fatal and nonfatal shootings has coincided with a huge spike in armed robberies and carjackings across the city, and police have shuffled resources around to deal with it — sometimes at the expense of the most troubled areas.

The state is funding the project, and Gov. JB Pritzker’s Office said they will not move forward unless the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency signs off the environmental report. However, new video shows construction still underway at 38th and California Sunday.

“The convention is a once-in-a-generation moment for the city to shine. Instead, some of our city’s leaders are flirting with embarrassing us on the world stage and causing deep fissures within the Democratic Party, which needs to be unified to prevent Trump from becoming president for a second time.”

Smollett’s legal team will file an appeal with the Supreme Court. If the actor’s conviction is not overturned, he will be required to serve out the rest of his 150-day jail sentence.

“American Airlines and United Airlines want Chicago O’Hare’s expansion that they signed off on in 2018 slowed down – or stopped – as the project runs $1.5 billion over budget. Somehow the carriers are surprised that a massive public infrastructure project, in Chicago no less, is spending far more than originally projected? And in fact it’s only just the ‘next phase’ where a 24% projected cost overrun totals $1.5 billion more than expected. That’s before construction on the new terminal even starts! The project’s total cost has grown from $8.7 billion to a projected $12.1 billion. So

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through the streets of downtown Chicago on Saturday afternoon. The demonstration was organized by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine.

The first part of the ordinance requires migrants who want to stay at a hotel or motel will need documentation that they were examined by an infectious disease doctor who verifies they are free of contagious diseases. The second part of the ordinance prevents warehouse and vacant shopping center owners from converting their buildings into temporary housing.

“Educators in the ‘progressive’ utopia of Evanston segregated students by race in the ‘hopes’ of shrinking the so-called learning gap suffered by minority students…Evanston, you constantly beclown yourself. But now you add the trappings of the fool for all to see, and the Chicago media jesters for covering you with their many sins of omission. If you were Republicans the Chicago media would skin you alive, but you’re leftists and so they protect you.”

Special prosecutors Maria McCarthy and Fabio Valenti recently stood before Will County Judge Donald Carlson arguing that their client, former Chicago Police Detective Kriston Kato, was the victim of a renegade, utterly illegal institution created by one of the most corrupt state legislatures in the country. The attorneys argued in a motion that a state agency created in 2009, the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission (TIRC), was an unconstitutional infringement on the judiciary, an argument that, if embraced by the courts, could have far reaching impact on Illinois.

Undocumented workers in Illinois pay an estimated $900 million in federal taxes and $700 million in state and local taxes, according to the latest report from the American Immigration Council. At a recent rally in Pilsen, several of those workers took to