Alds. Felix Cardona Jr. and Gilbert Villegas introduced an amendment last month to exclude their wards from the Northwest Side Preservation Ordinance, saying some of their residents have faced complications when trying to sell properties and have voiced concerns over the ordinance affecting the real estate market. The program allows renters the opportunity to be the first to buy their building if they go on sale.

At least one of the organizations, Latinos Progresando, had a swastika spray painted on its front door early Saturday.

“A children’s hospital stay should comfort families—not confront them with activist symbols, controversial ideologies, and moral agendas masked as care.”

The 36-year-old Palatine man is back behind bars after police say he walked out of a Little Village gas station with a crowbar in one hand and a slot machine cash box in the other—right into the arms of officers who had simply stopped by for a drink. And he did it while on pretrial release for allegedly doing the exact same thing.

Officers responded to the call a little before 5 a.m. and found multiple victims. No one is in custody in connection with the shooting.

The Austin Safety Action Plan Safe Zone, known as the ASAP Safe Zone, is the city’s first official safe zone, or designated neutral ground for feuding teen groups, organizers said. The area — between Lake and Ohio streets and Waller and Parkside avenues — has been established as a safe zone since 2021, offering year-round programs dedicated to violence prevention and career development.

The July 15 report from the Cook County inspector general says district trustees, whose jobs are supposed to be voluntary, are being paid, though the sums are relatively small. Between Jan. 1, 2017, and the end of last year, trustees paid themselves $34,100 in “travel expenses,” according to the recent report. Additionally, some trustees whose terms expired continue to serve.