As a Democratic leader, Preckwinkle will be tasked with trying to mend division within the party. In an interview after her win, Preckwinkle didn’t have specific plans on how to accomplish that.

“Our Police Department has the tools that it needs to help us build a better, stronger, safer Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “And as I’ve said repeatedly, it can’t be policing alone. That’s a failed strategy. That is what previous administrations have relied upon.”

The first sign that Officer Huesca was in trouble came in at 2:53 a.m. Sunday, in the form of a ShotSpotter alert for four rounds fired at 5501 S. Kedzie Ave. It was not for another 4 minutes and 50 seconds that a 911 caller picked up the phone, reporting a man on the ground about a block away at 3135 W. 56th St. Police arrived at the scene sooner than if they had waited for the call.

Concerns remain about protests like the recent incident when hundreds shutdown access to O’Hare International Airport. “Our Chicago Police Department was able to get those folks off the highway faster than any other city in the United States,” Gov. JB Pritzker said. “And they’re prepared for the Democratic Convention.”

The Chicago Teachers Union hosted a press conference to begin contract negotiations at one of the sustainable community schools it wants to replicate 180 times. The Ellen H. Richards Career Academy has zero students proficient in reading or math. Nearly 80 percent of students are chronically absent. And nearly one out of every 10 students drop out of the high school.

A monthly index of affordability that the Chicago Association of Realtors released last week for March shows the affordability of houses in the city hitting the lowest point in the group’s data, which stretches back to January 2007.

Chicago police arrested charged 40 people with misdemeanors after the O’Hare demonstration. In a statement, a Chicago police spokesperson said the department has been focused heavily on training to respond to “large-scale First Amendment activity” in preparation for the upcoming Democratic National Convention.

“The politicization of violence on the streets of our major cities must end.”

Following George Floyd’s murder in 2020, “promises were made by corporations, universities and governments around Black wellness and making sure that ‘We see you, we know these communities have been disinvested in,’” said LaVonté Stewart, of Lost Boyz Inc. “That happened for a year or two, and guess what? Now they’re wiping out [those efforts].”

Out of more than 50 appointments to the CTA board over the past 40 years, only three were transportation experts. The city and governor’s office won’t explain how they identify and interview prospective board members.

“For so long we accepted that this is how things had to be in our communities,” said Chris Jackson, who co-founded a bakery and restaurant in the South Loop with his wife. “This migrant crisis has made many people go: ‘Wait a minute, no it doesn’t.’”

“Domestic violence survivors should not be asked to rely on a system to protect them that consistently falls short.”

Last weekend, at least 43 people were shot, seven fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said.

The “One System Initiative” will shift a “permanent shelter management to the non-profit workforce,” Illinois Department of Human Services spokesperson Daisy Contreras said. The state’s office to prevent and end homelessness will lead the initiative with more than 25 community-based agencies participating.