The district solidified its stance on working with immigration enforcement last year when the Chicago Board of Education passed a resolution stating CPS will not provide assistance to ICE in the enforcement of federal civil immigration law. It also states ICE is not permitted access to district facilities or personnel unless it has a criminal warrant to do so.

At least eight people died and more than 50 were injured in shootings over the Labor Day weekend. Chicago Flips Red founder Zoe Leigh said the city needs help. “One of the things that really bothers me is that it was six women that were shot and killed. One was ambushed by five gunmen,” Leigh said.

Chicago Ald. Raymond Lopez offered his thoughts in an X post: “If @POTUS is paying, let National Guard come here. Not in our communities, but protecting assets & high priority targets downtown so that our @Chicago_Police don’t have to babysit the Bean or Buckingham Fountain for eight hours a day. Our officers can return to their districts & answer the thousands of 911 calls logged but never answered.”

“(Gov. JB) Pritzker and (Mayor Brandon) Johnson prefer to talk in terms of percentages, but percentages mean little when you are still burying 573 human beings in a single year. … Only in Chicago politics could cutting murder down from apocalyptic to merely catastrophic be presented as progress.”

“Once the Labor Day crime figures were compiled, though, rational thinkers came to the conclusion that the Chicago war zone actually did not require either inspiration or ignition from the president of the United States. Some of us are living in one already.”

It’s been lauded by Mayor Brandon Johnson and is one of six military schools in CPS where participation in JROTC is mandatory. Currently, there are roughly 130 students enrolled, down from more than 300 a decade ago. A spokesperson for the U.S. Air Force said Chicago Public Schools was notified of noncompliance issues March 4 and was provided extra time to come into compliance.

A new camera near a daycare at 3358 South Ashland has generated the most tickets in the city. It issued 21,180 tickets. It went live on June 15.

“We don’t know if the National Guard is coming or not coming. We know ICE is coming. And ICE has the responsibility to enforce immigration laws. They shouldn’t do it the way they were doing it in Los Angeles. But they have that responsibility, and they should do it in the proper way, not the way Tom Homan is having them do it, or Kristi Noem,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.

Michael Korosa’s criminal record spans nearly 30 years and includes at least a dozen felony convictions, officials said, including robbery, burglary, theft, drug possession, escape, and aggravated battery. Despite that background and prosecutors’ allegations, Judge Susana Ortiz denied the state’s detention petition and sent Korosa home.

The victims included a 17-year-old girl who was inside her home when a bullet came through a front window and hit her in the arm, a 31-year-old man who was shot in the leg after getting caught in the crossfire of gunmen shooting at each other from two vehicles, and two people who shot and injured while driving down a street. Fewer than five hours after Trump posted a message on social media on Saturday criticizing Pritzker’s handling of crime in

More conservative alderpeople say the city’s lawyers and their colleagues are too eager to settle cases before trial, and it encourages those guilty of criminal wrongdoing to sue the city in the hopes of an easy payday. However, progressive members of the City Council see the expense as perhaps the most visible cost of the decades of scandals, misconduct and brutality that have engulfed the Chicago Police Department.