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I interviewed
@ChicagosMayor
for
@SouthSideWeekly
last week. Johnson highlighted diversity in his administration and progressive legislation; bristled at a question about CTU contract talks; and demurred when asked to pick a favorite House music genre.
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I have a sincerely held religious bias, based in Leviticus, against being compelled to pay back my student loans
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SCOOP: Two Chicago men who appeared in a "Fox and Friends" segment at a Naperville diner told me they were invited under false pretenses by
@GiannoCaldwell
. One of the men, a 4-time aldermanic candidate, was paid over $10K by Paul Vallas's campaign.
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Whenever it’s feasible, journalists should seek consent before filming or photographing protesters (and blur faces when consent hasn’t been obtained), particularly when participation in protests makes them subject to significant administrative and state repression.
Unfortunately some protesters at Northwestern’s newly-formed encampment weren’t too thrilled with us reporting.
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Is relief for renters on the way? The push to end a statewide ban on rent control means that Chicago, for the first time, could limit rent hikes.
We've got takes from both landlords and renters 👇
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The same columnist who described shooter Kyle Rittenhouse as "terrified," wrote that Adam Toledo, whom CPD chased and killed, as "maybe even more dangerous" than an adult.
This is called racism
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When Paul Vallas headed the New Orleans school district, he contracted a recruiting agency run by a convicted felon to hire teachers from the Philippines; the agency held immigrants in isolation and illegally charged them thousands of dollars in fees
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I spoke to a dozen educators in cities where Paul Vallas has run schools and found a trail of privatization followed by lawsuits, labor violations and arrests of Black and Latiné kids. My latest for
@TheTRiiBE
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The brave, highly professional
@WKCRFM
student journalists repeatedly apologizing for being “a bit frazzled” as they report live while trapped in Pulitzer Hall has me near tears
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NEW: Emails show that last summer Lori Lightfoot directed her staff to gather data to support keeping qualified immunity. The report they prepared shows CPD civil rights lawsuits have cost taxpayers over $500 million since 2009. For
@SouthSideWeekly
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Paul Vallas is the first guy from Bridgeport who ever said "I went downtown to the Cub game"
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“Chicago Not In Chicago”
Palace Square in St. Petersburg blocked by vehicles ahead of the planned anti-war rallies
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Seems like a good day to revisit the fact that Lori had Streets & San blow more than half its overtime budget for the year on parking snow plows all over Chicago in anticipation of protests that never materialized
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Although the segment was staged to appear as though Caldwell was interviewin Chicago voters who were skeptical of Johnson, Glass told me he is supportive of Johnson's preventative approach to addressing violence at its root causes.
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Levondale Glass and Andre Smith both told me they were surprised Caldwell asked them about Mayor Johnson, because they were told the interview would be about violence. Glass said he was "upset" Caldwell asked him about the mayor under the pretense of talking about his dead son.
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“Don’t take me up to be like I’m against Brandon Johnson,” Glass told me. “He’s a Black man; I hope he does well. Make sure you put that in” this story. “We’re gonna wait and give him a chance.”
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The only Fox news that belongs in Chicago
🚨FOX NEWS UPDATE🚨
Chicago’s Millennium Park foxes are “doing quite well” downtown, an ecologist told me. They like hunting small animals, playing & apparently posing in front of skyscrapers. New cute pics from
@mandophotos
. For
@chicagotribune
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"Middle-class white Americans increasingly responded to Black youth’s corner culture with intense policing and urban flight, not the playgrounds and child-saving initiatives they had created for white children."
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BREAKING:
@ChicagosMayor
announces the city will not renew ShotSpotter's contract “and will decommission the use of ShotSpotter technology” in September.
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That 538 piece reads like it was written by someone who thinks you take the L downtown to the Cub game
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NEW: A
@TheTRiiBE
investigation found the
@cookcountysao
's do-not-call list includes hundreds of current and former Chicago cops who cannot be trusted to testify in court. The list we published is far longer than previously reported. | 🖋️ Max Blaisdell
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NEW for
@Chicago_Reader
: Perry Abbasi, an election attorney who worked with the FOP on police district council races and is listed as treasurer on multiple campaign committees, has a history of racist and misogynist trolling on social media.
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Remember how the City parked snowplows parked all over Chicago in April ahead of feared protests? It cost millions. I dug into the data for
@SouthSideWeekly
and found a blizzard of overtime that drained half the entire year's budget.
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Hundreds are rallying for a ceasefire and end to the occupation of Palestine at Michigan and Wacker right now, with people steadily arriving in droves
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NEW: The cost of preparing and remediating streets used in the NASCAR street race topped $2.1 million, according to documents obtained from CDOT. The City charged NASCAR a $500,000 fee. Story TK
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What an absolutely shameful way to frame vaccinating vulnerable prisoners
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Fox's correspondent got lost 30 miles and six suburbs away from Chicago trying to get reactions to MBJ's election today
Breakfast with ‘Friends’: Gianno Caldwell talks new Chicago mayor with diners
Gianno Caldwell asks diners their reaction to Brandon Johnson being sworn in as Chicago Mayor. Segment:
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Imagine if the Trib applied the same analysis to the police union, which successfully seized control of three of the oversight bodies created to hold the union's members accountable and also endorsed Vallas (a fact the Trib editorial board conveniently elides)
From the Editorial Board:
While we congratulate Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas on making it to the runoff, we do remind them of the long history of fealty to sponsoring organizations, leading to corruption and moral compromise.
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This is the shelter where a five-year-old child died yesterday after falling ill. Volunteers say that shelter staff refused to provide medication or call an ambulance
New investigation 🚨 Migrants detail harsh living conditions at a Pilsen shelter. They face chicken pox, freezing temperatures and more. 🧵
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The Vallas campaign was racist through and through
Vallas sues consultant who allegedly defrauded campaign out of $680,000
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As dawn breaks, activists holding a 24-hour vigil outside the Federal Bldg have just read the 10,000th name on a list of Palestinian victims of the war on Gaza. So, so many victims are children.
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There's a whole bunch of people who should resign right now, starting with the mayor
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As a Twitter Blue subscriber, Vallas has full access to mobile 2-factor authentication, which would seem to make "hacking" his account incredibly difficult
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Syllabus: Close open-air beaches, force schools to open over teachers' protestations, and blow COVID relief funds on police overtime
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Latest poll has Johnson & Vallas tied—and belies claims that the election isn't about race: 72% of white voters for Vallas, and 74% of Black voters support Johnson. Latiné voters are split. Johnson strongest on the West Side.
Stating the obvious, but this'll come down to GOTV
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NEW: Hacked documents revealed that a dozen Chicago cops and firefighters donated to the Canadian trucker convoy that blockaded border crossings. One firefighter apparently used a city email address to do so. CFD says they will investigate.
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The median home listing price in Chicago is about $359,000. The Trib editorial board are truly unserious people
In which the Tribune editorial board argues that it’s the “middle class” buying humble $1M+ abodes in Chicago
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This morning, alders
@RossanaFor33
,
@CDRosa
,
@ChiAlderwoman
, alder-elect
@jessiefor26th
, Cook County Commissioner
@AnthonyJQuezada
, former IL House speaker
@repgregharris
and other LGBTQ+ leaders gathered in Boystown/Northalsted to denounce Paul Vallas's record on LGBTQ+ issues
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John Catanzara and Eddie Johnson are not reputable sources. We just elected 66 new Police District Council members and a mayor who wants CPD reform, yet corporate media keeps trotting out the same problematic people and the same tired narratives
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Lori Lightfoot
@chicagosmayor
condemns people who bring weapons to peaceful protests, and “applauds” police who...brought weapons to a peaceful protest.
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Well having riot cops beat the shit out of the kids for peaceably assembling will certainly prevent their radicalization
@rosannascotto
@NYCMayor
"We can't allow our children to be radicalized," the mayor continues, citing a poll showing many young Americans aren't proud to be Americans.
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After Vallas left Bridgeport CT, the next superintendent introduced a program that addressed students’ social and emotional needs, and suspensions and in-school arrests dropped, while test scores rose.
Parents and teachers in cities where Paul Vallas ran schools described his zero-tolerance approach to kids who had suffered trauma.
"He was very much a no-excuses guy," said one.
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Personal news: I’m thrilled to be joining the amazing team at the
@Chicago_Reader
as their news editor next month. I cannot express how grateful and humbled I am. And I’m indebted to
@SouthSideWeekly
for everything I’ve learned here. ❤️
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Lightfoot and COPA publicly putting the decision whether to release video on a grieving family moments after they viewed it is an abdication of responsibility and a bald attempt to avoid public outcry & pass the buck for that decision onto the family.
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Today's Kafka award goes to the city worker who emailed "call my office" but had the wrong phone number in their email sig, and when I figured out the right number and called and told them the number was wrong, said "yeah, people tell me that all the time."
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Thousands marched in the Loop today to demand a ceasefire for Gaza.
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"Our social safety net" didn't shoot a kid, the police did
The facts and the circumstances around this case are under investigation, but we must ask ourselves how our social safety net failed this boy leading up to the tragic events in the early hours of Monday morning.
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Tonight, Chicago-area journalists will come together to honor our fallen colleagues and express solidarity with journalists in Gaza.
Silence is not an option.
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In 2000, the Chicago Tribune's editorial board criticized Vallas for awarding, and subsequently extending, a no-bid contract worth $6.1 million to a company with ties to his father-in-law, Palos Heights mayor Dean Koldenhoven. (The Trib has since endorsed Vallas for mayor)
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Last year CPD used the city's gun-violence prevention hub to monitor nonviolent block parties, bike rides, demonstrations, press conferences—and even anti-gun-violence vigils. My latest investigation for
@SouthSideWeekly
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Chicago police just denied a FOIA as "unduly burdensome" based on the mere possibility the records I requested could be thousands of pages.
I have gotten complete complaint records on multiple cops before. Seems like a new tactic to dodge FOIA compliance.
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Lightfoot says CPD "learned a lot" from May 29 weekend, and "put what they learned into practice." CPD knocked out Miracle Boyd's teeth in July, attacked and kettled nonviolent protesters in August, and attacked a small nonviolent protest at the Mexican consulate in September.
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In 2017, a CPD officer held a gun to a man's head and pistol-whipped him until he was apparently unconscious. COPA recommended that officer and two others be fired as a result of the incident in March 2021.
They still haven't been.
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NEW for
@SouthSideWeekly
: To estimate how much the City spent on the NASCAR street race, I FOIA'ed Dept of Transportation spending and CPD overtime. The total was about $3.25 million. NASCAR isn't on the hook for any of that.
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Endorse a white neoliberal who's in bed with the FOP one day, celebrate a Black anarcho-communist who CPD called "more dangerous than a thousand rioters" the next 🙃
@jjkfoundation
Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons was a labor reformer & women’s rights activist. In 1878, she helped organize the Working Women’s Union No. 1 which was the only trade union in Chicago with female members at the time. In 1905, she helped found the Industrial Workers of the World.
#WHM
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A lot of reporters, especially the younger ones, have lately been doing some of the best and most essential coverage Chicago has ever seen
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Mayor Johnson's Transition Committee Report reiterates recommendations to end the City's contract with ShotSpotter, eliminate CPD's gang database, and close the Homan Square interrogation site.
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I'm thrilled and deeply grateful to be joining one of the most dynamic newsrooms in Chicago as digital news editor at
@TheTRiiBE
!
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Dave Wasserman has called it for Brandon, and the Percolator is bumping at Johnson's watch party
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Chicago officials skipped the middle step and just gave COVID funds directly to the police
When Chinese officials isolated the city of Wuhan in the first lockdown, they created high-tech controls to track its society to stop the spread of Covid. Now, the same tools are being used to monitor other risks, like crime and "hostile" political forces.
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Every time I've investigated an officer who was involved in a high-profile abuse incident, they had a long history of complaints that was far more than the average officer's. Every single time.
Chicago taxpayers paid $91.3M to resolve lawsuits that named 116 Chicago police officers whose alleged misconduct led more than once to payouts between 2019 and 2021.
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Ultimately I see Arwady’s firing not so much as “retribution” from CTU and more as a repudiation of the neoliberal approach to public health. Arwady more or less capably administered that approach, but elections have consequences, and a shift away from that is one.
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There's a lot wrong with that Tribune editorial but this just takes the cake
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Today’s my first day as news editor at the
@Chicago_Reader
. Pitch me your stories at jdaley
@chicagoreader
.com
Submission guidelines:
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$100 million / 340,658 kids = $294 per student
$280 million / 12,000 cops = $23,333 per cop
"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what your value."
NEW: Statement from
@chicagosmayor
and
@ChiPubSchools
@PedroCPSCEO
:
"We are pleased we have come to an agreement that guarantees predictability and stability for the rest of the school year."
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In my last story for
@Chicago_Reader
, I interviewed four candidates for Police District Council who are all younger than 25. They have impressive perspectives on public safety, abolition, and the role of youth in government.
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CPD patrol, tactical and SWAT officers are violently arresting students at SAIC less than 24 hours after this was posted
Earlier today, I spoke with University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos, where I made clear my commitment to free speech and safety on college campuses. My administration will continue to evaluate and assess these demonstrations as they develop.
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Some ✨personal news✨, I've been promoted to Investigations Editor at
@SouthSideWeekly
. Thrilled to be part of this amazing team, and looking forward to what we'll accomplish this year!
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In 2009, Vallas publicly flirted for months with running for County Commissioner as a Republican, and had the backing of the GOP before he dropped the exploratory bid--which calls into question the whole "lifelong Democrat" thing
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Statements from COPA and CPD both appear to indicate officers who fatally shot a man over the weekend initiated a foot pursuit because he fled, which is prohibited by the department's foot-pursuit policy.
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In the 1960s, White Citizens Councils bussed Black people to Northern cities in “reverse freedom rides” that are echoed today as Southern governors bus asylum seekers to Chicago and other cities. | By Jesús Flores for
@SouthSideWeekly
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Yesterday was my last at
@Chicago_Reader
. The past year was one of the most challenging of my career. I'm proud of the work I did, and proud of fighting with
@Reader_Union
to make the Reader a better workplace. New job announcement coming soon!
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Paul Vallas’ entire premise is flatly contradicted by the WTTW article he cited. He’s quickly gone from mayoral candidate to reply-guy-who-didn’t-read-the-article
One way to
#DefundThePolice
is don't fill police vacancies, strategy supported by many in Mayor Johnson's camp. Denying communities the officers needed to deter crime means record overtime costs as $210 mil was spent last year & already $126 mil this year
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At tonight's Kelly HS meeting about tent camps, a young Colombian migrant (facing away) spoke about her experience. She said migrants just want to work. Many in the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she spoke.
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NEW: Internal emails show ShotSpotter keeps its sensors online and continues to provide gunshot detection alerts to police departments in cities where its contracts were canceled.
With
@MaxBlaisdell1
for
@SouthSideWeekly
and
@WIRED
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Are neonicotinouds a “safer” pesticide? Bayer says they are, but several scientists I interviewed disagree. My latest for
@sciam
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An alderperson insinuating election fraud has far more potential to damage our democracy than an alderperson giving a speech near a burned flag
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Incredible work by
@_ToniaHill
and the whole
@TheTRiiBE
team to produce a deep dive into Vallas's failed attempt to buy Chicago's Black vote:
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The 2024 Democratic Natl Convention will be in Chicago, a city that just elected a progressive trade unionist mayor who beat a police union-endorsed law & order “centrist” who ran anti-defund attack ads against him
Progressivism destroyed itself over the last 3 years and there's been a huge swing back towards the normie libs within the Democratic coalition because the left went so crazy and caused a homicide crisis. Commies are nostalgic about 2020 because they know their one chance is gone
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In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Louisiana Federation of Teachers and American Federation of Teachers won a $4.5 million judgement against the recruiting agency.
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NEW: A 14th District police officer is being investigated by COPA and the BIA after she allegedly made xenophobic statements and threatened asylum seekers with a dog. Volunteers have also alleged mistreatment of new arrivals at five other stations.
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Mutual aid volunteers will hold a vigil Wednesday evening near the Pilsen shelter where a 5-year-old boy fell ill and died. They’re asking people to bring candles, winter clothes, and medicine
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NEW: According to the chief of the Public Defender's Forensic Science Division, the Cook County SAO is withholding ShotSpotter evidence from defendants; when challenged to produce it, the SAO drops charges instead. | From
@foiachap
for
@TheTRiiBE
:
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BREAKING: All charges against a Venezuelan woman arrested at the 8th Dist last Saturday have been dismissed. She said she “feels good” and “thanks to God” the ordeal is over.
I’m at the Cook County Circuit Court in Pullman this morning, where a mother seeking asylum who was arrested last week on felony resisting/obstructing has a court date today.
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In 1973, organizers in the Black power and civil rights movements gathered for the first-ever conference on community control of police. 50 years later, Chicagoans will elect civilians to police district councils. Read about the history of the struggle:
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Lightfoot has:
•Failed to implement 70% of consent decree
•Overseen 2+ police riots during 2020 protests
•Spurned GAPA
•Spent millions in COVID relief on CPD
•Tried to suppress Young video
•Lied about Toledo having a gun in his hand
•Offered to reform foot chases, maybe
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When I heard this I couldn’t help remembering the reason CPS has nurses in every school is the 2019
@CTULocal1
strike
Arwady: I would ask school nurses to be willing to be part of testing, case investigation, contact tracing in CPS. we can commit to getting more testing resources there. We’ve already got that well underway. We got PCR results from that first day of school coming back in 24 hours
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Officers Callahan and Schmitz are in the 83rd and 93rd percentiles for complaints, respectively, and in the 98th and 83rd for use-of-force reports, according to
@CPDPbot
This was earlier in the day when police and protesters were pushing back and forth on a barricade police put up.
This was going on most of the day, though from what I saw, officers Callahan and Schmitz seemed to get the most aggressive with protesters on the line.
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If you have a toxic boss you should try “quietly unionizing” and then follow up with “loudly asserting your rights”
If you've ever felt like your boss is giving you no choice but to quit your job to advance your career, you may be getting “quiet fired" — not to be confused with the popular “quiet quitting” trend you may have heard about on social media.
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I'm thrilled to introduce a new opinion columnist at the
@Chicago_Reader
, Anthony Ehlers, who is a writer incarcerated at Stateville. I connected with Anthony through
@prisonjourn
and he will be contributing a regular column, "On Prisons."
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@ztsamudzi
Madonna was always a “pioneer” in the most literal, appropriative, larcenous sense of the word
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BREAKING: The City Council has rejected a ruling to allow police officers facing firing or a suspension of more than a year to have their cases heard behind closed doors by an arbitrator, 33–17. |
@SouthSideWeekly
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Lightfoot says digitizing and publishing three decades of complaints against police would cost "tens of millions of dollars." Somehow,
@invinst
managed to create such a database without spending millions
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BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson appoints
@GarienGatewood
Deputy Mayor of Community Safety, a post created by MBJ. He "will lead cross-government efforts to eradicate the root causes of crime and violence, and advance a comprehensive, healing-centered approach to public safety."
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The polls are open on Saturday from 9:00am - 5:00pm, and Sunday from 10:00am - 4:00pm. Early voting is open in all 50 wards.
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At the School of the Art Institute, CPD made 68 arrest after students set up a small nonviolent protest camp. In some cases officers shoved, hit, and roughly pulled students and supporters to the ground.
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"It’s inescapable from this study that protest matters—that it can generate change." My latest for
@sciam
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