CPD had fully complied with just 16 percent of the consent decree by the end of 2024. The next report is due in October.

Gov. JB Pritzker pointed to the 1878 federal law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which essentially prohibits the federal government from using military personnel to enforce domestic policy or participate in civilian law enforcement unless explicitly authorized by law. “I talked about the fact that the Nazis in Germany in the `30’s tore down a constitutional republic in just 53 days,” the governor said, reiterating the comparison he made in his budget address. “It does not take much, frankly, and we have a president who seems hell-bent on doing just that.”

“I would like to see kids at least reading at grade level,” state Rep. Curtis Tarver said. “That would be a minimum to me.”

Police have no details on an offender and have no one in custody at this time.

“I’d like the Bears to stay in the City of Chicago, if they could,” Gov. JB Pritzker said. “They’re a private business. They can choose to do what they like with their business. I do not think that the taxpayers of the State of Illinois should be propping up what now is an $8.5 billion-valued business. They seem to be doing OK for themselves.”

The poll also found nearly half of voters would be less likely to vote for a candidate who took money from a teachers union.

For years, federal prosecutors say, he used his elected offices to create a fiefdom of graft, shaking down business owners who needed liquor licenses, forcing a developer to install air conditioning in his home for free, and even enlisting McCook’s police chief as his personal bag man. In addition to these and other gifts, Tobolski admitted to accepting more than a quarter of a million dollars in bribes or extortion payments over the years.

Investigators believe the same crew has struck in neighborhoods from the Near North Side to Austin and Jefferson Park, sometimes hitting multiple businesses in a single night.

The CHA launched the Plan for Transformation in 2000. Over the next decade, most of the the city’s public housing high rises were razed, leading to a loss of 16,000 apartments for families. But residents and advocates worried the demolitions would result in a lasting shortage of affordable housing. Those concerns have only been validated over the years.

“We also, as community, must begin to hold each other accountable as to the activity of our children, as to, you know, what they’re doing after hours,” Ald. Jason Ervin said.

“Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” President Donald Trump said. “That’s what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started it, bad leadership started it, but that was the one thing that’s central, no cash bail. Someone murders somebody and they’re out on no cash bail before the day is out. We’re gonna end that in Chicago. We’re gonna change the statute.”

The nonpartisan Civic Federation said that Mayor Brandon Johnson must first “identify savings and improve operational efficiencies, including controlling personnel-related costs” before looking at new taxes and fees. But Johnson says he’s prioritizing progressive revenue by asking the “ultra-rich” to put more “skin in the game.”

Senior mayoral advisor Jason Lee discusses the various challenges Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration faces in balancing Chicago’s budget. Topics include progressive revenue strategies, potential cost-cutting measures, environmental justice initiatives, and affordable housing policies.

At least 13 were shot, 2 fatally, in 4 separate shootings early Sunday on the West Side.