Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson acknowledged shortly after his election that “bringing people together around a holistic approach of how we address public safety ... will be the test of my leadership.” Johnson’s victory was made possible by winning the lion’s share of votes on the city’s South and West sides, home to Black and Latino Chicagoans who live in neighborhoods that are among the city’s most violent and have the highest rates of crime.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Summer-like temperatures spurred the unrest.
This is going to be the NEW NORMAL.
It’s been this way, more or less, for decades in these dangerous neighborhoods. This is just how they live and they like it that way.
These voters decided it was about time YOUR middle class neighborhood turned into a rat hole too.