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...At one point last autumn, Chicago had more than 3,000 migrants living inside and outside police stations because shelters were full....
...New York City mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, has hinted that he would support further rollbacks....
...“These two candidates represent very distinct viewpoints, constituencies and very distinct backgrounds,” said Chris Mooney, a political scientist at University of Illinois Chicago....
...A Chicago Tribune investigation found that Vallas’s Twitter account had liked posts that used homophobic language to refer to Lightfoot and to praise “stop-and-frisk”, a controversial police tactic that...
...Just south of Wisconsin’s state border in Illinois, Chicago voters chose a progressive Democrat to run the third largest city in the US....
...But worsening crime may be more perception than reality: the Chicago Police Department says transit crime in 2022 was down 43 per cent over 2019 — though ridership has fallen more....
...Homicide numbers remain high compared to other large US cities — last year the police department reported 695, compared with 433 in New York....
...Closer to my home are the ugly skirmishes that brought police to a recent board meeting of the Lincolnwood Public Library District outside Chicago, over Lil Miss Hot Mess’s oeuvre....
...The decision followed criticism of the city’s handling of a fatal police shooting of a black teenager in 2014....
...Police have detained a “person of interest” over a shooting at a July 4 parade in an affluent suburb of Chicago on Monday that left six people dead and dozens more injured, the latest mass shooting in a...
...Chicago “will continue to be important to the future of Citadel, as many of our colleagues have deep ties to Illinois”, Griffin added....
...Illinois....
...The Chicago Police Department appears to have washed its hands of the measure. When I asked them how it would be enforced, I was told to call City Hall....
...Skadden has hired John Kocoras, former first assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, as a partner in its litigation group, based in Chicago....
...Rittenhouse drove to Kenosha from Illinois in August 2020 after a police officer shot a black man, Jacob Blake, paralysing him and setting off days of protests and riots, which became an issue on the presidential...
...The Chicago Police Department declined to comment....
...Perhaps therein lies at least some of the difference in view about WFH versus the office.” — Henry D Wolfe, Chicago, Illinois...
...At a Louis Vuitton store in Oak Brook, Illinois, 14 people stuffed large plastic bags with clothing and other goods worth more than $120,000 in November....
...The writer is an FT contributing columnist I live on one side of the railway tracks in a small town outside Chicago, and most of the city's black residents live on the other side....
...A savvy organiser and electric orator, Hampton was 20 in 1968; 21 a year later when shot dead in his sleep by Chicago police officers....
...During the protests that followed Mr Blake’s shooting, Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teenager from Illinois, shot and killed two protesters....
...Chicago officials said police would maintain a perimeter around the downtown area until further notice....
...Homicides and shootings in Chicago went up more sharply than in other big US cities following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis in May....
...Local law enforcement in Chicago has its own troubled history. The city agreed in 2015 to pay reparations to victims tortured while in the Chicago Police Department’s custody....
...Kenosha police officers shot and paralysed Jacob Blake Jr, a black man, in August. The shooting led to protests and riots, where an Illinois man shot and killed two protesters....
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