As of Wednesday evening, 18 people have been shot in Edgewater this year; that’s up from five for all of 2023 and ten for all of 2022. Notably, seven of this year’s 16 victims were shot in six different incidents at a single housing complex in the 6000 block of North Kenmore.

“I don’t ever discuss personnel issues,” he said. “I find it to be highly offensive, irresponsible and raggedy, and I don’t do raggedy.” However, Johnson made it clear that all of his leaders must share his progressive agenda to transform public education. “I was elected to fight for the people of the city and whoever is in the way, get out of it,” he said.

Chicago spends so much on police overtime because of a “lopsided” approach to community safety that puts too much focus on law enforcement rather than efforts to reduce poverty and strengthen the city’s social safety net, Mayor Brandon Johnson said. Chicago “has to do a better job” and stop relying on police to provide community safety, Johnson said.

The City Council’s Finance Committee unanimously endorsed a $64.2 million plan to transform the 14-story office building at 79 W. Monroe St. into an apartment building with 117 units, including 41 units set aside for low- and moderate-income Chicagoans. The plan relies on $28 million in city subsidies.

The state’s attorney’s office said that after Villa was convicted, the office discovered evidence that had not been previously or timely provided to the defense team.

“Well, what’s in Chicago is what has been happening in Chicago for a very long time. People have ignored the needs of people,” Johnson said when asked for a message for those who have to rely on the CTA in the wake of the shooting and other crime on the system. “But there’s a new day for Chicago.”

The current Chicago ordinance on separate residences on the same lot puts extra limits on the Southeast, South and West sides that hinder development. Those are areas with some of the greatest need.

The super PAC of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools poured more than half a million dollars into Chicago’s school board elections in the past week, nearly doubling the total money flowing into these historic races so far.

Around 36 percent of likely Chicago voters have a favorable opinion of CTU compared to 46 percent who have an unfavorable opinion, according to survey commissioner by the the Illinois Policy Institute. CTU has spent over $175,000 for candidates running for this year’s Chicago Board of Education election, but budget documents show that CTU is planning to spend as much as $1 million across 10 school board districts.

Cook County has launched a dashboard mapping certain deaths by cause to reveal hidden patterns and direct resources where they’re most needed. According to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, weather, opioid and gun-related deaths account for more than one-third of all deaths handled by the medical examiner’s office each year.

He is at least the third person found fatally shot without any 911 calls reporting gunfire since Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city’s relationship with ShotSpotter on September 22.

The city will subsidize development of for-sale housing on those lots, with up to $150,000 per unit in city assistance being offered. If successful, the pilot could expand to Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Bronzeville, Humboldt Park and East Garfield Park. There are more than 350 vacant lots citywide available for purchase and redevelopment.

Earlier this year, city officials approved up to $4.2 million in tax-increment financing and $540,000 in Multi-Family TIF to help fund the project. In addition to TIF dollars, the Illinois Housing Authority approved $17.5 million in funding to support the development, and ComEd committed over $250,000 in energy-efficient incentives.

COVID relief funds for schools expired Monday, and the head of CPS is hoping the state or federal government can rescue the district from a financial cliff. As for proposals for programming cuts or furloughs, Pedro Martinez called them a last resort to offset increased costs in the teachers contract that’s under negotiation.

A third migrant shelter found in the 4900 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive is set to close Oct. 21. Once shuttered, about 3,000 beds will have been eliminated from use at the city’s migrant shelters.

A rallying cry was heard outside the Israel Consulate of Chicago Tuesday following a gathering of a few hundred people with the U.S. Palestinian Community Network at Federal Plaza.

Among the announced rules at schools including Northwestern University, DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are restrictions of protests to daytime business hours, designated “free speech zones,” bans on unapproved flyers or banners and advance registration requirements.