“Johnson may find himself torn between his antiestablishment roots and his current position as a member of the Democratic Party establishment. As a former union organizer, he’s a veteran of protest movements. … Behind Enemy Lines, an outfit opposing Israel’s war in Gaza, has called to ‘Make 2024 as Great as 1968. Come to Chicago and Shut Down the DNC!'”

Of 824 domestic-related electronic harassment and cyberstalking complaints last year, only nine — slightly more than 1 percent — resulted in an arrest. It’s an arrest rate more than 15 times lower than other domestic crimes in 2023, including battery and order of protection violations. Of more commonly reported crimes, only those involving deception — such as pickpocketing, unauthorized credit card use and confidence games — have lower arrest rates.

“You end up with, and the study from Northwestern shows it about Illinois, you end up with more violent crime,” Pritzker said. “It’s Republicans that have caused this problem.” South Side GOP Chairman Devin Jones is the 18th Ward Republican Committeeman. He said the criticism was strange in a city which has no Republican elected officials at any level.

The gatherings have become a fixture of Chicago summers in the last decade, springing up via social media flyers. While organizers in their public invitations share plans to dance, box or make YouTube videos, sometimes the gatherings have devolved into chaos and violence. Ald. Daniel La Spata raised concerns over the policy’s potential to accidentally crack down on protests, such as the pro-Palestine encampments that popped up at Chicago universities this spring.

Despite a lukewarm reception, the mayor and his supporters are hoping the idea catches on as neighborhoods take more ownership in efforts to stop the violence from continuing.

Kathy Salvi of Mundelein was selected Friday at a virtual meeting of the 17-member Illinois Republican State Central Committee. Salvi on July 19 will replace Don Tracy of Springfield, who in his resignation letter last month bemoaned spending “far too much time dealing with intraparty power struggles, and local intraparty animosities” involving “Republicans who would rather fight other Republicans than engage in the harder work of defeating incumbent Democrats.”

“When you look at the investments over 22 years that Rich [Daley] made throughout this city and then you look at how he did in his election results across the city — getting 2% in his first election in the Black community and, the last time he ran, probably getting 70 or 80% in the Black community — that was a statement about the fairness,” Bill Daley said.

The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court Friday by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Anti-War Coalition, Students for a Democratic Society at UIC and the United States Palestinian Community Network.