“Entrepreneurship works differently than political machines. Let’s look at that entrepreneurship piece because the government can’t build this. It’s got to be built by the private sector and the private sector will do it faster and more efficiently anyway.”

The documents, obtained through FOIA and reviewed by The Epoch Times, reveal that police were dispatched to the Inn of Chicago, a hotel now serving as a shelter for illegal immigrants, more than 250 times between January 2023 and February 2024.

Ald. Raymond Lopez argued the gas workers’ union had been unfairly excluded from conversations planning the ordinance over the last two years, eliciting claps from two dozen men seated together in the public gallery. “I think what we’ve seen time and time again is we’re trying to ‘stack the deck’ to move forward on things.”

“This involuntary layoff — coupled with positions that have not been filled in the last year — represents a significant reduction in WBEZ’s content unit. These losses are devastating to our listeners and members,” SAG-AFTRA, which represents WBEZ employees, said in an emailed statement.

When the Bring Chicago Home effort failed at the ballot box last month, and the more progressive Democratic candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney lost, some wondered if Chicago’s political winds were changing. “We won 21 out of 23 races, which is better than we’ve done in a long time,” Preckwinkle said.

A Venezuelan migrant allegedly told police he carried a Taser because there are “a lot of crazy people” in the Loop and he’d heard about stabbings outside the shelter where he lives. Separately, a Colombian man arrested days later allegedly told police he had a gun in his pocket to protect himself from Venezuelans.

The weekend’s violent incidents affecting young people are proof that “people are hurting,” Ald. Emma Mitts said. Parents need to be more involved in their kids’ lives and monitor their social activity and social media use to keep them safe, she said.

While murders and shootings have declined in each of the last three years, newly released crime data show burglaries, car thefts and carjackings have also declined this year after stubborn rises in recent years.

Together, the projects on Monroe and LaSalle streets would cost roughly $520 million and build 1,000 new apartment units downtown, with 319 of those units rented at affordable rates.

The Chicago Department of Public Health confirmed a “small number” of tuberculosis cases were reported in a few different shelters in the city. The confirmed tuberculosis cases come as measles cases in Chicago surpass 50, with the majority of cases being reported in the Pilsen migrant shelter on Halsted Street.

“Does Ald. (Lamont) Robinson actually believe a street sign bearing Obama’s name is going to change the futures of Chicago’s Black kids, when Obama as president for eight years did not? And does he really believe changing a street sign is going to bring more tourists to Chicago than stopping the senseless crime that plagues the very area the street runs through? “

“The city has long uplifted a version of public safety that focuses on the purported needs of tourists while failing the Black and brown people who live here. The Uniform Crime Reporting Act and its proposed amendment are powerful tools for empowering Chicago residents to evaluate CPD effectiveness, ensure police accountability and build community trust.”

“The main problem faced by (Ald. Byron) Sigcho-Lopez is that he is now an elected official with significant responsibilities in a major American city and thus, in the worldview of his friends at Behind Enemy Lines, actually one of the ‘rulers.’ But he is still behaving like an activist throwing stones. At his own body.”