Ald. Brendan Reilly argued the higher borrowing threshold is “not about who the current mayor is. … This change applies to all future mayors. … This body has started to — and it’s refreshing — act independently of administrations and the executive, and by requiring the super-majority vote, it makes the dialogue and engagement with each of us more valuable.”

Police said a 12-year-old boy grabbed the gun from an unattended bag on the bus, belonging to a bus aid, and fired a round that hit the window. Police said the man then took the gun and the bag and fled from the scene.

“(Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen) O’Neill Burke’s insistence on soberly reviewing each (wrongful-conviction) case individually has sent the ‘Criminal Industrial Complex’ into a panic. The CIC is an ecosystem led by trial lawyers who masquerade as civil-rights lawyers, along with activists, academics, consultants, and federal consent-decree monitors who have profited handsomely from the taxpayer-funded legal system and anti-police narratives.”

The state law that created Chicago’s elected school board also required the mayor to create a noncitizen advisory board meant to give a stronger voice to immigrant Chicagoans who cannot vote in school board elections.

Lopez also slammed the millions of dollars that the city spends on anti-violence groups. “Sadly, these non-profit grief peddlers do more to show up after a tragic event like this one to soapbox their need for ‘more funding,’ yet have done absolutely nothing to advocate for accountability for the gangbangers they harbor. Chicago needs to wake up to these poverty and fear pimps that intentionally want our communities, communities like Back of the Yards, to remain in fear so that they can continue to profit from it,” the alderman urged.

About 31 percent of those who were food insecure were employed in some capacity, and about 27 percent of food insecure residents were retired, the report found. The report’s findings also indicated those who face food insecurity are delaying or skipping payments for utilities and medical care. About 29 percent of those who are food insecure are also delaying or skipping rent or mortgage payments.

“Giving the state’s attorney the power to effectively determine who gets locked up simply by choosing what charges to file doesn’t just undermine judicial discretion, it risks rigging the system so prosecutors control both the accusation and its consequence.”

“Unless paid for by Washington, it is clear that urban socialists will not be able to afford the promises made to their core constituencies – poor recent immigrants and the mass of underpaid, overeducated professionals. Chicago, which has followed the Leftist line for years, is already courting bankruptcy and losing much of its business base.”

Six people were standing outside shortly after noon when two vehicles pulled up, and multiple gunmen got out and began shooting, police said. A 30-year-old woman driving nearby was struck by gunfire and crashed into a CTA bus, according to CPD.