Judge William Fahy denied the state’s detention petition for Malik Williams, 23, deciding instead to send Williams home with a nighttime curfew.

“In 1980, an estimated 88,000 Black Chicaogans worked in manufacturing, the highest number of Black residents working in the industry in any U.S. city. By 2020, that figure had dipped to roughly 17,000, according to census estimates. The net loss of more than 70,000 Black residents in manufacturing leads all American cities, the data show.”

The public dollars required to implement the program in the 2023 cycle would likely have aligned roughly with the $9.5 million estimate given by Ald. Matt Martin upon introduction of his ordinance. Martin’s proposed ordinance calls for a “Chicago Fair Elections Program” that would create a taxpayer-funded pool of money available to candidates for the office of alderperson that met certain fundraising requirements and limitations.

“This Sunday, as our mayor and the City Council are working toward establishing an Office of Gun Violence Reduction to play a permanent role in combating violence, we want to introduce readers to two people who are representative of the hard work, and of the promise, that community violence intervention (CVI) brings to our city.”

Among the trustees set to vote on the matter is Jimmy Viverette, who said authorities recently sent him a letter saying he must step down because of a prior criminal conviction. He said he plans to leave around the end of the month, “but it’s all good, I did a good job and, even though (Mayor Charles) Griffin was convicted, I don’t justify what he did, but you have to look at the good this young man did.”

Northwestern University announced Friday that the University will no longer make official statements on behalf of the institution related to public or geopolitical matters unless they are related to the operation of the University. The move by NU aligns them with several elite universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of Michigan, which all made similar commitments since the spring.

State Rep. La Shawn Ford argues all the doom and gloom needs to serve as a further call to action for lawmakers. “It’s our responsibility in government to do what we have to do to make people feel safe by making sure that crime is reduced in their neighborhoods and they feel safe enough to walk the streets and live their lives. If you have a government that ignores it, I think it’s negligent.”

About a dozen similar crimes have been reported over the past three weeks, but most of the robberies were reported last week. They involved a two-man team who usually escaped on an electric or motorized bike.

Videos from Chicago police’s core inventory of roughly 4,400 surveillance cameras appeared to help solve, at best, 3.5 percent of 2023’s homicides. Officers don’t download video for most serious, unsolved crimes that occur on streets and sidewalks, the kind of crimes for which cameras were supposed to shine. Police data offers no record of video downloads in half of such open homicides, nearly three-fourths of open shootings and more than 90 percent of open robberies last year.