There were 47 people shot, seven fatally, over the weekend, and 24 shot, two fatally from midnight to 5 a.m. Monday. There were two mass shootings just over an hour apart early Monday morning, Chicago police said.

A total of 13 people were injured in two separate mass shootings just an hour apart early Monday morning—one in Humboldt Park, the other in West Englewood.

Dozens of organizations plan to protest in Chicago, which has denied permits for demonstrations near the United Center convention site.

“To figure out which schools have more needy families and need more support — that’s a great idea,” Sabin Dual Language Magnet School parent Cheryl Connor said. “I don’t think it worked out for Sabin.” Take the portion of students who qualify for Medicaid but are not enrolled in the program — the higher the number, the more points a school gets for its index. In recent years, the school community went all-out to ensure eligible families enroll in the health coverage program. Now, Connor said it feels as though the district is penalizing the school for these efforts —

Some spoke with representatives from various special interest groups who were there observing, like the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, Chicago Teachers Union and Leadership with Educational Equity. Others soaked in the moment with family and friends.

“We believe that since the City has the capacity to house new arrivals, it should do so with the budget allocations we agreed upon without subjecting them, especially families with kids, to the humiliating and traumatizing experience of repeated evictions,” the letter from the City Council’s Latino Caucus said.

Through the executive order, the Johnson administration publicly acknowledges the harms and discrimination that Black residents have endured from slavery to the present day. The order also includes a public apology from the city “for the historical wrongs committed against Black Chicagoans and their ancestors who have and continue to bear injustices,” according to text from the executive order.

In recent days, robbery victims have been shot in Rogers Park, Logan Square, Austin, North Lawndale and now Washington Park.

The Regional Transportation Authority doesn’t project the region’s ridership will come back this decade. In 2022, the agency estimated ridership could hit 74 percent of pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2031 if current circumstances persist, though RTA staff said the figures are likely conservative.

A string of shootings happened within a span of five hours Friday night into Saturday morning, all on the city’s West Side. Among those killed in the violence was a 13-year-old boy.

A gas station clerk said he saw hundreds of people on the block for what he believed was a party. He said more and more people began gathering near the gas station before shots rang out. Police believe a shooter ran away from the scene.

CTU’s proposal includes retrofitting buildings to fix aging infrastructure, adding central air conditioning, removing lead pipes, and installing solar or heat pumps to mitigate pollution in South and West side schools located near industrial corridors. Long-term goals include funding technical education programs to prepare students for jobs in the renewable energy sector. The union is also asking for healthier and more “culturally relevant” lunches in 25 schools.