In recent weeks, long-standing criticisms have intensified, among them that the system is inaccurate, expensive and disproportionately harms people of color. But the software has been consistently praised by police, including top cop Larry Snelling, who credit it for quicker responses to shootings and alerting police to gunfire that citizens do not call in. In the last three years, CPD officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert rendered lifesaving medical aid 430 times.

“There have always been countervailing forces pushing Chicago to be a global city engaged with the world, and the recent controversial City Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza is just the latest example of how Chicagoans can’t sit idly on the globe’s sidelines.”

“The pandemic, and the resulting work-from-home moves, have really made some buildings that were kind of borderline obsolete, pretty much absolutes,” said Richard Whitney, vice president at Chicago-based architecture, design and sustainability firm FitzGerald. In Chicago, office vacancies in the central business district at the end of the year reached an all-time high of 23.8%. That figure is up from 21.4% at the end of 2022 and 13.8% at the beginning of the pandemic.

Although new arrivals of migrants by the busload have slowed significantly in Chicago, Ald. Andre Vasquez said that finding ways to legally put migrants to work remains the biggest obstacle to finding a solution to the city’s migrant housing problem.

Around 3:15 a.m., members of Lightfoot’s security detail were inside their unmarked squad car outside her home when a round hit the windshield, causing damage, the Chicago Police Department said. The officers were not injured and did not return fire. No one is in custody.

Pastor Brooks also explains how politicians like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson abandon his cause after they get their ‘poverty porn’ photo-ops and why ShotSpotter is a vital tool for understanding the gun violence plaguing his community. Plus, Carlin suggests that pastor host a counter convention on the South Side when the DNC invades the West Side.

Hundreds of people converged in the area of Roosevelt and Canal after 7 p.m., and police officers were already arresting people within the hour. Part of the group was gathered in a nearby bank’s parking lot when at least one gunman fired shots at 8:06 p.m., according to a CPD media statement. This was the first major large group incident in the downtown area since July 30, when up to 400 young people gathered in the

“Emergency orders can be fulfilled if needed,” said Kevin Sur, spokesperson of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security. “As always, state partners will work to find items requested by the City of Chicago in an emergency.” According to Sur, the city’s “one and only request for diapers” was in October when they provided 64,000 diapers. Earlier this week they received another request for additional supplies but it did not include diapers, Sur said. Nevertheless, the state agency provided another 600 diapers that had been donated, he added.

One of the hottest series of disputes has been the tag-team rumble between federal, state, and local regulators, a scrap-metal processor, and several interested community groups over the relocation of a Chicago plant from the Lincoln Park neighborhood to a community in southeast Chicago. At least some parts of this dispute are closer to resolving.

Will Johnson, Chicago-based CEO of The Harris Poll: In the Republican caucus in Iowa and primary elections in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Michigan — states that allow some form of crossover or unaffiliated voting — exit polls show upward of half of Haley’s support came from a combination of Democrats and independents. And they’re being urged by political action committees to keep it up next week in the seven Super Tuesday states with open primary elections.