Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, of New York, says the outbreaks at the Chicago migrant shelters were easily foreseen. “To be honest, I’m not surprised. We have open borders with all sorts of people coming in from countries from all over the world bringing in various illnesses, viruses, disease and bacterial infections.”

First elected in 2018, she is the first woman and first African American to hold that office, overseeing elections in suburban Cook County and maintaining the county’s vital records. She previously served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds and as an Illinois state representative.

“Though the Pension Advance Funding Policy is a step in the right direction, this policy is keeping the systems above water and not necessarily increasing the funded ratios of the pension systems.”

“Who expected me to defeat white supremacy in one year?” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “There were individuals who did not know the full value of what I brought to the mayor’s office, and there were forces working to disrupt that.”

Eric Russell, council chair of the Gresham District, is so disappointed in his role that he plans to resign at the end of the month. “The only thing they wanted us to do as district council members was to be goodwill ambassadors,” he said. “They should have just called us goodwill ambassadors if that’s all they really wanted.”

Ronnie Allen, 19, is the eighth person accused of shooting, killing, or trying to shoot or kill someone in Chicago this year while on felon pretrial release.

In the Northern District of Illinois, which includes Cook County and the collar counties, prosecutors approved only 45 percent of the gun cases presented to them. Federal prosecutors in Chicago were ranked in the bottom eight of the country’s 94 federal court districts in the percentage of gun cases they approve, according to the report ordered by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland,

>While any Republican is perceived as a long shot to win the post, whichever candidate comes out ahead is poised to transition the state’s attorney’s office into a new era after a period of unprecedented — and sometimes contentious — reforms implemented by outgoing top prosecutor Kim Foxx.

The Chicago Department of Public Health said Friday that officials confirmed only four new cases this week, taking the city’s total to 57 cases. The majority of the measles cases remain linked to the city’s largest migrant shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

In the 11 months since Johnson took over at City Hall, data from the “New Arrivals Mission” website pegs such spending at nearly $300 million with more than 38,000 migrants having arrived in the city and around 9,700 still residing in city shelters