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The funds likely were unfrozen out of fear of retaliation after President Donald Trump authorized a military attack to damage Iran’s heavily fortified underground nuclear targets.
Officer Carlos A. Baker has had more than a dozen complaints against him, records show.
CPD Supt. Larry Snelling said he’ll deploy many officers to ensure the parade is fun for everyone.
The project would transform a 114,000 square-foot commercial building at 700 W. Chicago Ave. into a complex for everything from multiple haunted houses and thrill-packed rides to “sinister scare zones” and “scare actors on the prowl.”
Preservationists and a community organization say a public park and musical festival site is an idea worth pursuing, but demolition of the structures appears imminent.
Current and former Chicago police officers once saddled with the grisly job of “body snatchers” question whether a single funeral home can handle the citywide task.
With Chicago Public Schools facing a $529 million budget deficit, the teachers union president says Chicago needs to stand up to President Donald Trump’s attacks on public education by supporting its schools.
The mayor says Tom Carney, who’s been in the agency for more than 20 years, is leaving his post to focus on family. He’s the latest among a string of Johnson’s leaders to leave.
The police officer told the FBI he left guns at the Chicago home of Jawad Fakroune, and they were later seized during a raid of Fakroune’s home in New York, according to court records. Fakroune is charged with extorting the owner of a Lincoln Park restaurant.
Mayor Brandon Johnson says he will veto the ordinance, which would empower Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling to issue curfews anytime, anywhere in the city, with 30 minutes’ notice.
The landmark designation approved by the City Council only covers St. Adalbert’s church, not the entire complex that includes a school, rectory and convent.
But just who asked for a key provision — which would give police the ability to call a curfew within 30 minutes — is unclear.
A June 27 public meeting is set to discuss the demolition plans for the more than century-old grain silos on the city’s Lower West Side.
After a court hearing Tuesday, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police said the city only wants arbitration hearings held publicly “to make it a circus.”
It’s been a slow return to seven days, and the Chicago Park District’s pool season will be short this year, ending just before Chicago Public Schools students return Aug. 18.
Team owner Joe Mansueto has committed to paying for the stadium himself, while tax increment financing district dollars would cover infrastructure needs on the long-vacant site.
CEO Pedro Martinez said he doesn’t regret rebuking the mayor’s request that CPS take out a loan to cover a budget shortfall, which ended up costing him his job.
Balbo Drive is the first street that will be shut down, starting Thursday morning, from Columbus Drive to DuSable Lake Shore Drive, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation.
Ald. Michael Rodriguez scraps vote on city of Chicago ordinance that would have raised the pay of drivers who use the ride-hailing app.
The new locations announced Friday bring to 34 the number of speed cameras installed by the city this year.
Mayor Brandon Johnson, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia are all fathers. Their advice to fellow dads is universal. “Just show up. Just be present. Children do appreciate that,” Johnson says.
A vote scheduled for Thursday was pushed until Monday, giving time to alderpersons on Thursday to press ride-hailing company representatives more on a proposed ordinance that would pay drivers while they worked the app — even when there isn’t a passenger in their car.
At a court hearing, Snelling criticized a plan to allow the Chicago Police Department to issue 30-minute curfews even though he defended the ordinance in a Sun-Times interview last week.
Macquline King, the senior director of educational policy in the mayor’s office, will take over as interim CEO as the school district tries to close a $529 million deficit.
WBEZ and Reset gave listeners a direct line to the city’s chief executive to ask questions about issues important to them – here’s what you said.
If the full City Council approves, alderpeople could ban new vacation rentals in individual precincts. The onus to gather signatures from 10% of registered voters in that precinct would then be on Airbnb and Vrbo to overturn a local ban.
Cristina Pacione-Zayas, the mayor’s chief of staff, said federal agents have “48 hours to stand by and be ready to deploy” in Chicago. Five cities are “targeted,” all of them Democratic-led.
An Uber spokesman told City Council members Wednesday morning, in a special committee hearing on the matter, that the company refunded all riders after realizing it misapplied a congestion tax outside of the designated hours.